Originally Posted by aewanabe

Full disclosure; I flew yesterday with one of the weakest FOs I've had at this company, one who was weak 6 months ago when I was new to the plane, and seems to have learned nothing in the ensuing 6 months. I don't ever, ever, belittle guys for making mistakes; I screw up myself plenty, and needling a guy or gal is the quickest way to completely destroy any semblance of CRM and take them out of the game completely. But I was essentially single pilot for the day, and upon arrival after thankfully only one leg, what happens? You guessed it. This guy is swimming upstream, with his work station not even a little tidied (iPad, trash) with the next crew trying to get into the cockpit.

So I grab all his crap from upfront, stick it in row 1, and when he meets me off the jet I very politely tell him I'd prefer he not clean, but if he chooses to do so to please have his stuff out of the cockpit first. Same conversation I had 6 months ago, same blank stare.

So with that background, I click on the hiring thread on APC, and see a pretty new guy bashing one of our pilots for pointing out that our/your MEC has asked us not to clean. Blood gets boiling, I respond, get a couple guys telling me I have no right to ASK an FO not to clean (still strongly disagree about this) and ultimately end up being far more of a jerk than I initially intended. I'll own up to that, and I'm not here to ruin anyone's career over cleaning.

In the meantime if you fly with Malcolm we are in different bases so unless you head 200 miles north you won't have to worry about avoiding me. Cheers.