Excellent post flillion,
Smoothie and tom are either from ryanair or a similar airline.
Technicaljy they are ok but they only know procedures at best.
I recently flew with an ex Ryan air Cpt who joined in EK in right seat.
He complained about how a former colleague at ryanair was able to join as a DEC where as he a 9 year veteran at ryanair and a Ryanair TRI was not given the same advantage despite having joined one month earlier.
I finally had to take him aside and tell to put a sock in it.
We have some real idiots flying for us.
The seniority list needs to be respected, you get a number and you wait your turn.