Originally Posted by
sonnycrockett
Pro-Standards always your FIRST call!
Call early and call often!
Yes, call them so you can hear such gems as:
"next time.. you know.. unless your about to get hurt... maybe it would be better to...um...
pilot: shut up and color? yea!""=
"SO the cap said you flew a good jet, were
professional, and
standard, but (blabla playground bull**** blabla)"
Totally eff up what the legal concept of captains authority is. "capts authority totally applies to (something having nothing to do with an airplane)"
Hold different seat positions to different standards of professionalism.
Its not a magic wand of an organization, they have the best intentions but have a fairly strong agenda. They are not your REPS, they shouldn't represent you with the company.
Often they don't have a good frame of reference and only have the ability to try and shame someone into compliance.
They are not integrated with Hims/EAP/training/safety/newhire committee other than passing the ball and I am not aware of any and see no sign of professional conflict management, data driven decisions, human factors or mediation training.
That being said, my sample size is small and collected from ~10ish instances. (I work with new hires, not all me

)
I would say call them, just... be prepared to be disappointed.