When you are given a "modified base" realizing that after a couple of decades in aviation there are still things you hear for the first time...
When nobody asks for nor is at all interested in the fact that you have the latest ATIS....
When they make you hold for 15 mins waiting for someone to depart from the opposite runway (BGY) reversing the widespread belief that the aircraft in the air has priority over the one happily sitting on the ground.....
When you don't know which runway you will land on when at 12nm on finals (MXP)....
When you have to wait for the handling company to "release the flight" before you can ask for engine start making the word of a 20 years old temporary worker with nose piercings more trustworthy than the one of a senior long haul Captain with a few years to go before retirement (FCO,BGY....)....
When you hear sms interference when ATC keys that mic....