Gentlemen;
I would be interested in your definition of CRM, or for that matter your definition of manners.
It is obvious from these posts that none of you have an idea of who or what I am, whether I am crew or not etc...
It is in my humble opinion a clear indication that you should remain in the F/D and look after what you are hired to do and that is to fly the plane.
How you handle your HR and personal relations is your own problem, but how you treat the crew is incumbent upon your responsability as a captain.
Whether you use your CRM skills or not is not entirely upto you but relates to the outcome of the operation that you are paid to carry out for EK.
So please do not BS anyone here with your superior jargon full of S**T, because it is not what makes you a better captain or a descent individual, nor will your ATPL buy you the respect of anyone, it is more about treating people the way you would like to be treated. Those of you who think that you can drop CRM will end up like the yougoslave captain who was dobbed at the end by his own crew for obvious low CRM.
And note please that no one is looking for Mr. Nice guy, just half decent people with a proper response.
Take good care of yourself boys and for latin I reply in another language:
Yaghamissou!