Originally Posted by
chucknorris
Who fraking cares. You're my FO, You're my capt, don't really care how I'm addressed.
A perfect trip:
Both pilots wearing lanyards.
Good discussion involving boobs (if you're into that), football, and where we are going to grab a beer.
Get to layover hotel, now beer is consumed. (Hooray!)
Repeat for days 2,3, or 4.
Go home, don't talk about airplanes. Watch football.
Did I mention football starts soon. FOOTBALL! What a wonderful time of the year. A whole season devoted to drinking beer, eating brats, and watching the greatest sport ever. (Go Pats)
I wear the lanyard, but I think we are all adult enough to still have this perfect trip, even if the guy next to us isn't wearing the required "15 pieces of flare." (to quote Office Space.) Signs and symbols will not improve the quality of the negotiators we've put in place. To place so much emphasis on something like a lanyard reminds me of a typical high school clique. We are gown a** men and women, and supposedly professionals as well. ALPA is here and we are negotiating with the company; with or without any lanyards. We are not laborers who never made it past high school, and need the extra signs and slogans to follow the collective sheep. Everybody who has such a hard-on about these lanyards that they would stop treating a colleague with some common courtesy needs to grow up.