[Bumblebee]

Originally Posted by Qgar

Excuse me? The way it works in OUR crew room is the CA checks the computer to see about the inbound and tells the ENTIRE crew the a/c is in and let's walk to the gate. He NEVER did that and left with the FO when I was in the ladies room without even telling the other half dozen people in the crew room that he was going to the gate. We walked over a few minutes later and were by NO MEANS LATE. The inbound crew and the EWR cleaning crew does the cleanup of the a/c and if we go on the plane too soon, we just get in the way. For him to call ANYBODY to see where we were was so off base and unprofessional. Furthermore, for him to try to try to prevent us from performing our preflight duties is against every regulation.
Stop playing devil's advocate. You're not portraying yourself in a very good light.
And there we have it -- EXACTLY why some people shouldn't be airline pilots and should fly freight instead. If you don't have people skills and would rather not deal with us mere mortals, go elsewhere.
Better luck next time and thanks for playing!

Honestly . . . that's not very nice. I too was curious as to why you hadn't approached the flight crew that had arrived. So I don't think that question is beyond the realm of what is reasonable.
Protocol is different for different airlines. In our crew room for instance if we change our FA, we all generally know who the other crew mwmbers are and one or the other will introduce themselves.
I am as layed back and low key as they come, but I was curious as to why niether of you had approached the crew. I also would never ask any member of my crew to skip part of their job. In my brief I advise my team the "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" we will go as fast as reasonable and the rest isn't up to us.

I don't think you were entirely fair to germb 747.