Yes. Common courtesy is the key in this entire incident.
Just a touch of common courtesy requiring oh, maybe say; a two second courtesy acknowledgement to the greeting is the courteous and polite thing to do.
Asking to much? Seems to be anymore.

Not me!

After all the (little) paperwork was done, I'd be back at work looking for #5.:eek:

#5? At what point might it be more cost-effective to just live across the street from Soi Cowboy? 😂

Is that a trick question? Before the first one.

IMO if you're not sitting up front, who cares? All this show of appreciation etiquette stuff seems pretty self-serving to me. Don't pilots feel special enough? I recently heard a story of a regional FO rushing to the near-empty cabin to reprimand a JS who didn't "check in" up front. Since when do FOs making $25/hr care about this anyway?? I thought people usually checked in with the CA..

Dumb traditions like this get people butthurt over nothing. If you get a seat in the back, even if you filled out a jumpseat form to get it, you earned that seat just the same as any passenger... Take a seat and enjoy the ride. Oh and be nice to the flight attendant :)

Like showing them common curtosies? :)

Power-tripping gate agents. All sweetness and light if you're working the flight but "eff-you" if you're trying to non-rev or jumpseat home.

Jumpseating on A320. 2 jumpseaters.
Friendly crew- great crew in fact.
I take my seat behind the Captain. Other dude is in the other jumpseat.
2.5 hr flight. Dude was a self-entitled prick about lots of things. Crew meal came, CA offered him bread roll- he turned it down but asked for his fresh fruit instead.
Minor, maybe. As was his being a total clutz when the FO wanted to use the Lav and he (jumpseater) struggled with keeping his bags under control and even left the cockpit door wide open for several seconds. (I closed it).
BUT. Who cares about that. What made him the TOOL OF THE DECADE was... I looked over at one point- dude was picking his nose!! Not subtlely. No, his entire finger was excavating. And he was flicking his boogers into the crew's trash bag.
And this continued for 90 minutes of the flight!!!!
I eventually got a glimpse of his badge.. stalked him on facebook- Embry Riddle grad. Flies for a regional.
After the flight; he had the audacity to shake hands with the crew with those nasty digits. I made sure my hands were occupied with my bags.
Heard the crew saying "wow" after he'd left and I was departing- think they knew about the whole thing.

.....wow. How these people get this far in life is beyond me.