Gratitude / Capt buys?
Yesterday | 06:32 PM
#142
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Joined: Feb 2022
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I will always be thankful if someone wants to pay, but I never expect it and will gladly repay it when it's my turn.
Yesterday | 06:47 PM
#143
Back in the saddle
Joined: Feb 2023
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From: Gear Actuator
I'm a millennial, I was raised to say "thank you" and "you're welcome". I've had captains even thank me for saying it after they pick up the tab or whatever, blows my mind that people don't say that after receiving a free cocktail or even a full meal...
I will always be thankful if someone wants to pay, but I never expect it and will gladly repay it when it's my turn.
I will always be thankful if someone wants to pay, but I never expect it and will gladly repay it when it's my turn.
Yesterday | 06:54 PM
#144
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Yesterday | 08:43 PM
#147
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2018
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It’s super unusual to slam click on an international rotation. When I was a WB B, I think the number of times all 3 pilots didn’t go out together was twice. Once was when the Captain had his wife with him and they did their own thing, and the other was a very well known insufferable-type FO who got ditched a lot.
Makes me wonder if HK’s case was a post-Covid hire who got super lucky and went straight to a WB, and so doesn’t have the cultural norms as engrained? 🤷♂️
Makes me wonder if HK’s case was a post-Covid hire who got super lucky and went straight to a WB, and so doesn’t have the cultural norms as engrained? 🤷♂️
See: last few pages of this thread for evidence.
Yesterday | 08:48 PM
#148
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Dec 2013
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Are there not relief lines anymore? Usually never fly and never see the same crew long enough to hang out.
Yesterday | 09:28 PM
#149
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I've never experienced peer pressure to hang out. But I'm an adult and, if I don't want to go out for whatever reason, I'll just communicate before I slam click. CRM goes beyond the cockpit, whether we'd like to admit it or not.
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Yesterday | 09:39 PM
#150
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It’s really not like that. Over the last 9 years I’d say I’m 60/40 out with crew or solo. It’s been trending toward 50/50 because I have sights I like to see and restaurants/bars where people know me. You want to tag along, cool, no? See ya mañana. But I’m always up for a new place, too. Most of the time other pilots are interested in being shown around and are genuinely excited to get one of my Apple Maps Guides with a 100+ places marked on it. Besides, folks have their own, sleep/eat/workout routines that don’t always align.
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