...one proposed to the Capt he would go and supervise the engineers doing a wheel change on a T/R and another asked why a Capt addressed " them " them being his chosen term for engineers, by their first names !
When serving at BZN I encountered a 10 Squadron Captain who wouldn't speak to ground crew directly, but tried to conduct business through the Flight Engineer. In my case unsuccessfully - I just walked away from his aircraft and asked our LSS Flight Commander to speak to him.