Tool of the day
04-25-2012, 11:57 AM
#531
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Posts: 215
To the LCA last night.
He shows up for an unannounced line check. Friendly, professional etc. Then proceeds to sit in the cockpit for the ENTIRE 9 hour flt? ****? No rest for the wicked I guess. Oh, he also played the whats this switch do and whats this rule mean game for most of the ocean crossing......
We all wanted to strangle him after a few hours.....later we just wanted to strangle ourselves to make it stop....
TOOL!!!!!
He shows up for an unannounced line check. Friendly, professional etc. Then proceeds to sit in the cockpit for the ENTIRE 9 hour flt? ****? No rest for the wicked I guess. Oh, he also played the whats this switch do and whats this rule mean game for most of the ocean crossing......
We all wanted to strangle him after a few hours.....later we just wanted to strangle ourselves to make it stop....
TOOL!!!!!
04-25-2012, 11:59 AM
#532
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: "Prof" button manipulator
Posts: 1,685
All right,this is going to tick a lot of my fellow pilots off, because I've seen a lot of you doing it...
I often judge the quality of a layover hotel by the places you can run and the gym facilities. It's my sanctuary after a 4 leg Maddog day. I'm tired of seeing pilots who bring their phones into the gym. You are a tool if you stop in the middle of your elliptical workout to return a text or sit on the bench that I'm waiting for while you run through your email. You're either working out or you're playing with your phone....you can't do both. Can't you stand to be apart from it for 30 minutes? And don't even get me started about the morons who hold a phone conversation in the hotel gym at the top of their lungs....that moves them straight out of tooldom into the realm of douchebaggery. I actually saw one guy walk into the gym, answer the phone and have an animated conversation for 20 minutes, and then walk out again. Must of been a heck of a workout.
I often judge the quality of a layover hotel by the places you can run and the gym facilities. It's my sanctuary after a 4 leg Maddog day. I'm tired of seeing pilots who bring their phones into the gym. You are a tool if you stop in the middle of your elliptical workout to return a text or sit on the bench that I'm waiting for while you run through your email. You're either working out or you're playing with your phone....you can't do both. Can't you stand to be apart from it for 30 minutes? And don't even get me started about the morons who hold a phone conversation in the hotel gym at the top of their lungs....that moves them straight out of tooldom into the realm of douchebaggery. I actually saw one guy walk into the gym, answer the phone and have an animated conversation for 20 minutes, and then walk out again. Must of been a heck of a workout.
Am I still a tool if I run on the treadmill with my bluetooth earpiece?
I'm not "playing with my phone", I'm multitasking, while exercising! 
GJ
P.S. If you knew the real me, you'd find it unbelievable that I can walk & chew gum at the same time.
04-25-2012, 12:20 PM
#533
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: B-737 CA
Posts: 83
The tool that hangs his sunglasses on the back of his uniform shirt collar. I looks stupid! put them in your pocket or kit bag.
Also, a bunch of pilots and rampers were watching the football playoffs in one of the "Samsung" rooms at DFW. Some fat a$$ is gabbing on her phone and won't shut up despite numerous comments and shooshing. Then a ramper turned the volume up all the way on the TV. She still won't shut the **** up and yaps for another 5 minutes before leaving. Seriously? What is wrong with people?
Also, a bunch of pilots and rampers were watching the football playoffs in one of the "Samsung" rooms at DFW. Some fat a$$ is gabbing on her phone and won't shut up despite numerous comments and shooshing. Then a ramper turned the volume up all the way on the TV. She still won't shut the **** up and yaps for another 5 minutes before leaving. Seriously? What is wrong with people?
04-25-2012, 12:53 PM
#534
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2009
Posts: 5,113
Call me a tool then, because in my house, WE sure were pregnant. WE couldn't sleep. WE ate at all hours of the night. WE craved ice-cream. WE felt sick about getting annoyed, or annoyed about getting sick together. WE had to stop to go to the bathroom every few minutes. WE struggled with names. WE got tired of advice. WE wanted to faint during delivery. WE gained severals pound coming back from the maternity. WE cared deeply about breast-feeding, although in slightly different ways...
04-25-2012, 01:04 PM
#536
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Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: Road construction signholder
Posts: 2,440
Lets see...here is a summary of various tools or at least brief "tool-like" behavior for your reading enjoyment:
...I check in on the radio saying "Center, Delta 123 is with you climbing out of twenty-four point five for flight level two seven zero" and the captain tells me "there's no decimal points in the flight level structure."
...The guy who got all bent out of shape because someone wrote a tiny little notation on the checklist ("you aren't supposed to write on checklists!" was his complaint) but then insisted on climbing out at 500 fpm at .82M so as to get to the layover and beer drinking just a few minutes earlier
I will come back and edit this post as the memories return
...I check in on the radio saying "Center, Delta 123 is with you climbing out of twenty-four point five for flight level two seven zero" and the captain tells me "there's no decimal points in the flight level structure."
...The guy who got all bent out of shape because someone wrote a tiny little notation on the checklist ("you aren't supposed to write on checklists!" was his complaint) but then insisted on climbing out at 500 fpm at .82M so as to get to the layover and beer drinking just a few minutes earlier
I will come back and edit this post as the memories return
04-25-2012, 01:20 PM
#537
veut gagner à la loterie
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: Light Chop
Posts: 23,286
So, I got outed as FTB.
The Captain I was flying with talked about this forum, actually it was before on our first leg before push. I said I read it, but... I don't post there.
Which as you can tell, I don't routinely post here. However, even if you rarely post you do have to be careful so I try to hide myself the every time I come to work. Which is about once a month.
But later I goofed and told a story identical to one I posted on this forum before and well, I was caught red handed and surrendered quickly. He then goes, well, on Wednesday I guess I need to look at the Tool of the Day thread and see if I'm on there.
So in honor of this Captain, I will indeed post about him even though I promised not to.
First, he got 3 out of the 4 walk-arounds including the first one which was his leg.
He then was going to buy my beer, except I ordered a coke because I don't drink. Which was always funny when guys would be like "you don't drink? Are you mormon?" As I am drinking a coke in front of them. Best one was when the guy asked "why are you on the ER?!??!?" (international 767) Too funny.
When he chose the bar stools, he even sat me beside the hot touchy drunk blonde. Which I didn't want to have any part of because I am a happily married, but, when she pats you on the back at least you know you were worth patting on the back and not some tool. Although, at 11pm at night her vision might have been severely blurred, I'll admit that.
Anyways, to a Captain you guys would all enjoy flying with:
Last edited by forgot to bid; 04-25-2012 at 01:40 PM.
04-25-2012, 01:34 PM
#539
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2009
Position: 127.0.0.1
Posts: 2,115
This may be unpopular but....
Anyone who refers to their favourite sports team and uses the word 'we'. Sorry, if you're not scoring points, or fronting up to training everyday, you're not part of the team. No, all that tuition $$ your parents paid doesn't matter. You're a fan, not a team member.
TOOL!
Anyone who refers to their favourite sports team and uses the word 'we'. Sorry, if you're not scoring points, or fronting up to training everyday, you're not part of the team. No, all that tuition $$ your parents paid doesn't matter. You're a fan, not a team member.
TOOL!
Now those that did not go to a school and claim it as "we", then yes, tool.
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