Originally Posted by
aewanabe
Good gravy, you quoted an entire message where I pointed out real pitfalls that have happened in the operation, and your takeaway was my attitude?
My very first response in the other thread ended with the words "I'd courteously ask you to desist". At which point you and a couple others went with "you're not the boss of me, your FO will go to HR for harassment...". In what screwed-up world of major airline pilots is a Captain requesting the FO to perform his or her duties IAW the FOM, then going to Pro Stans AFTER that is refused, harassment? (Other than JetBlue that is...)
I also have yet to see you address any of the multiple posters, myself included, reminding you that your passengers as well as your Union have made their positions quite clear. Why is your personal desire to play janitor more important than those positions?
If after all that my attitude is your issue, I'm cool with that. It's unfortunate, but whatever. We're talking past each other on this issue, and I don't see it changing.
I disagree that cleaning = neglecting your job. If one of my FOs clearly isn't doing his job, then yeah I'll talk to him about what his deficiencies are, and so should you. No problem there.
But that's not what your point was originally. You made it pretty clear that you would talk to your FO purely about cleaning. As long as he is doing his job, you really have no say about it. And you don't have to agree with your FO about everything. Threatening to go to pro stands over an internal political disagreement makes you look bad.