Managed to find a picture of a lot of the worst offenders mentioned in this thread.

 

I GET IT! I GET IT!!

Those are tools, AMIRITE?

 

The tool is the guy that has so few sockets but still buys a roll drawer toolbox to keep them in. And puts a voltmeter in with them.

 

 

TOTD is the CA who for the whole trip made every statement and decision with the "I" tense, not the "we" when it was the both his and the FO's (my) leg... terrible CRM. I may as well have just been along for the ride back in row 12. There was no discussion, no evaluation as a crew. Just the "I" am going to to do this or that, and even failed to even vocalize it several times. Then, when the oddball scenarios came about with this last SNAFU on the east coast, it was a guessing game... the ol' 'show and don't tell' routine. Been a while since I had one of these guys. Your ship man, have at it! Tool.

 

Here is a suggestion for those that think there is something worse than 'tool'....toolshed.

Urban Dictionary: toolshed
2 and 3 seem to describe it best.

 

I was just using that to illustrate an example. I've never encountered that "the old old eye roll" for the way I say the numbers 3-5-9, but I have seen it with other things such as when to flip on the beacon.
I've gotten barked at for turning it on early, then looked at crazily for not turning it on early enough, so know I just try to gauge the other guy and guesstimate it.

Lately I've been just flat out asking what they like me to do with the beacon. On rare occasion, I'll fly with a guy who won't block out until every door is shut and each ground personnel is in position even if it's one minute late. Personally, I think that's particularly toolish, unless the ground personnel is being particularly unprepared, lazy, and obnoxious that day. If however it all "business as usual" and they are doing everything they can to turn the aircraft on time, then I think the captain is just being a tool.

 

I forgot how nice it is to fly on a fleet where the out time is triggered off the brake rather than the beacon (hopefully soon all DL fleets will be like this).

The real tool is the one that set the out time to the beacon which is one of the stupidest possible out triggers.

 

How about guys asking controllers "any chance going direct" in a whiny voice? What ever happened to "request direct"?

 

Even better is to be paid at "L1 Door closed". . . . . Sometimes, it pays to be a Tranny.