I’ve encountered this twice with new hire FA’s. Weight restricted flight. With our taxi burn agreement with the dispatcher we could get the cockpit JS on but not a cabin JS. New hire FA says “if the cabin JS doesn’t go, the cockpit JS doesn’t go”. When pressed they both said they were told that during training and to refuse to allow any JS if the cabin JS doesn’t get on.

I’m sure that gives them the impression that it must be agreed upon by all to put any JS on. We all know that’s not how it works…but the young, inexperienced, impressionable FA’s don’t necessarily.

Both times it was shut down immediately and the FA in question educated. Whether that education takes or not is anybody’s guess.