Would like to buy you a beer one day. Well said. I have given similar advice to the FNG's. Not as well as you said it. I saw allot of CAL managers using their check airman for intel on what guys were doing and not doing, as well as their stool pigeons. Even seen them trying to manipulate union reps into saying too much. I don't think you can trust any management types, or anyone close to management types. Just do your job and keep it quiet. There is even a limit as to what I would talk about to the union system staffing peeps and their military liaison committee. Loose lips sink ships.

Even the secretarial staff in the flight offices should not be trusted. Drop off the orders and leave. No chit chat.