Originally Posted by cactusflyer

I'm most of the way through a trip with someone I'm going to call Bob, who is a good nominee for TOTD.

Bob has decided he's on a holy mission from God to correct the fact that everyone doesn't follow the manuals 100% of the time on every leg, and hes singlehandedly going to badger every single FO and flight attendant into compliance.

He started the trip by berating the flight attendants for going to get coffee after their 5am check in, since he needed to give them a stupidly detailed weather breifing that contained zero useful information.

Once in the airplane, he then yelled at one of the FA's for setting their coffee inside the flight deck door, citing a rule about open beverages that's actually intended to keep pilots from putting cup holders over the circuit breaker panels.

When the APU is running and the cabin reaches a nice temperature during boarding , he just shuts the APU off since it "saves fuel", despite the fact that it warms up really fast in the back without the APU bleed going, and it's often pushing 80 back there by the time we finish boarding.

Every single time I answer a call from ATC, he "corrects" me with "callsign first!", since he's convinced that all radio calls must start with our callsign and flight number.

If I touch anything on my FMS in flight (as pilot monitoring) without his express permission, I get yelled at because "only the pilot flying can change the flight plan!".

On a gusty crosswind landing in Montana, using the brakes to slow down earned me a repremand because "the runway is over 10,000ft, you should use rollout braking".

After about six legs of this BS, I (mostly) politely pointed out that I flew my last two trips with check airmen who had zero complaints about how I do my job, which was greeted with "well, the check airmen teach cultural procedures, not what's in the manuals".