Great advice for a newhire. There's so much stuff to cover on IOE that you don't always get to the "need to know" stuff like bidding, union 101, deadheading, commuting, scheduling, contract highlights, etc etc. If it wasn't for this board I'd be a moron about more stuff than I am. My crashpad roommates sometimes think I'm an oracle or something but all I'm doing is answering their questions with stuff I've learned from this forum. I didn't do my S/O IOE in Memphis and I felt like the new kid on the first day of school on my first trip, which was out of MEM, of course - didn't know where the folder for my trip was, didn't know which bus stop to get on, I forget the coffee, etc etc.