I get kind of irked by capts who are oblivious to the parking break’s position and do random stuff for 5 minutes after the main cabin door is closed. The flight is now late, and we haven’t been getting paid. Over the course of a 4 day, your negligence added up to costing us an hour of pay. Although you say you are laid back, you go on a power trip if I casually ask if you have dropped the break yet.
This same capt will usually bark reprimands at his crew for crossing seatbelts and tidying the cabin on a quick turn, because ‘we don’t do seatbelts on a quick turn.’ The reason your FO and forward flight attendant are crossing seatbelts is because we are done with the rest of our duties and have the time while we wait for the pax, but more importantly, when your FO leaves to do the walk around, you start passing gas in the flight deck, and mistakenly think that no one will be the wiser. You make the whole front of the plane smell like rotten swamp-ass. Head into the terminal bathroom for that, or heaven forbid offer to do a walk for your FO to take care of your incessant flatulents outside.
