The other day I asked the young F/O to call "ready". Instead he called "ready on line up".
There's an enormous difference between "ready" and "ready on line up". I shook my head in wonder that he couldn't carry out a simple instruction.
Sounds like mewhen I fly with an over 60 pilot attempting to use CPDLC. Finally had to dig the Manual out and have him attempt to read it like a script. Embrassing that this seasoned veteran is afflicted with cranialrectus disease. Thus making him unable to learn anything since 1985, while simultaneously making my airline sound like morons on the radio.