1. Taking over air taxi from boss noticed tech log from previous sector flown by him not signed.
Taxied round to office with pax on board, shut down and went looking for boss. Eventually found him at my aircraft.
Bas: "Tech log isn't signed."
Boss: "You said you'd take it without signing."
Bas: (Smelling huge rat) "No, I didn't and if it isn't signed I ain't taking the aircraft!"
Unseemly row develops in front of pax resulting in Bas removing flight bag and departing on foot. Boss flew aircraft. No idea what pax thought.
2. Staying at overseas hotel and checked in at nearby contractor's office for flight in big jet. BJ had diverted but we weren't told until we'd checked in. Returned to hotel. Boss, in UK, suggested we forget checking in and start duty period when decision had been made about how to handle situation.
Bas pointed out that, if we had a totally unrelated incident, CAA would uncover original check in time and we'd go to jail. Bas won.
On other occasions, attempting to keep the show on the road:
One, I won't discuss, which required some intense grovelling to avoid being 'spoken to'.
One where I inadvertently went over max discretion and boss received snotogram from CAA.