| Dont blame the crew
Ref striker58's reply in post#10
On a personal note, if a crew member is not happy with my intention to use discretion, and I believe he has a valid reason, be it fatigue or whatever, IF I see it as a genuine reason, then MY decision becomes that discretion will not be used.
I do not give a reason to the company unless asked, and I definately do NOT drop the FO or SO in the guano by saying "well I would have but he didnt want to".
Remember gentlemen, loyalty should go both ways, and these are our fellow crew members who have enough hurdles to jump over before they get to the left seat.
We should not be adding to their problems by generating unnecessary black marks for the monday morning quarter backs to assign into their files that they can use against them at some later categorisation meeting.
In the same vein as when someone wants to know the time, you dont build him a watch. So if asked for reasons why discretion was not used, keep it simple and to the point without apportioning blame to the other members of your crew |