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Yeah, Brown noses. It's inevitable that derogatory terminology like this gets interjected into these discussions. The thing is when you start looking at what is meant by "brown noses" it becomes apparent that it's generally just a term for "being a decent employee". Things like showing up on time, not being pointlessly antagonistic to management, not being late with your expense reports, keeping up to date on your assigned online training, things like that. IOW, "brown nosing" seems generally to be a word for "not making extra work for the chief pilots office"
etc.
So you in common with the majority of your peers in good time complete the online sexual harassment tutorial, submit the online SOP quiz and comply with the seemingly never ending requirements of the other online stuff which in no way now, nor ever, will have any relevance to the job which you daily and routinely do in a satisfactory manor to meet the required standard. Bravo! Welcome to the club.
In addition: you read your SOP revisions, you send acknowledgement for said revisions to the CP's office and you obediently dance to the tune called by the authority signing your paycheck (sensible). As indeed do the vast majority (key phrase) of your peers.
There's certainly no brown stain on your magnificent proboscis....but then of course the vast majority (key phrase again) of your peers are similarly, snow-white and squeaky-clean.
We're all much of a muchness. A peer group; a collection of individuals who as a group demonstrate the attainment of a set performance standard. We routinely pass our simulator checks and line evaluations. (It's true, as pertaining to the vast majority - that key phrase again.)
Do please explain (without reference to the occasional bad apple) as to who exactly should sit in the left seat and why, when the vast majority attain and subsequently maintain the required standard throughout?