cessnapuppy
You truly are the slow one in the group..fear not..I'll help you along.
1) There is a difference between "Gen Decs" and "Crew Decs." Gen Decs are signed by Purser and capt. Crew Decs are given to each crew member to fill out and present upon first port of entry in US. So you see, what I wrote is correct...Gen Decs were given AFTER take off and Crew decs were demanded at a later point in time.
2) The Flight Attendants were not asked/told to call the capt. anything, in fact he never introduced himself...he just launched into preflight briefing on aircraft. That was only said to fellow pilots upon beginning of their 4 day trip together. They did not fly the 4 day trip with us (F/A's). We only flew with them that one segment.