I guess this story qualifies as a TOTD nominee...

At my first 121 gig, we had to do a few rides in the jumpseat before we could start IOE. My flight was delayed a few hours because they needed to call a reserve FO.

The captain and I were in the flight deck talking when I saw the FA enter the aircraft followed by the female FO (who I actually met when I was in training). The FA says, "Our FO is here. She is coming down the jet bridge." Since the captain can't see the entry door, he assumed the FO was at the top of the jet bridge but she was actually right behind the FA. His response, "SHE?! Sh!t."

Imagine starting a trip as a new hire with that kind of welcome. We ended up doing an approach into an airport with a short runway in the snow with a tailwind of 10 gusting to 15. The tower clears us to land and tells us the breaking action is poor. I had some doubts as to if we had to count the gust into our tailwind limit, but as a FNG I wasn't going to say anything unless I could find it in the FOM. Luckily that new FO had the stones to tell the captain that not only could we not land due to the gust, but we couldn't land with a braking action below good with ANY tailwind. I wonder if that captain remembers that a female FO saved his ticket that day so that he could go on to United.