B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 250; Flight Crew Total 7453; Flight Crew Type 3768
Training / Qualification
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors
I'm filing this [report] because of what I consider to be unsafe practices at ZZZ. Two items in particular concern me. PUSHBACK COMMUNICATIONS: When our ground crew plugged in; the phraseology he used was 'Ready whenever you are'. I asked if this meant that they were ready to push; at which point he said they were. He then asked for brake release so I told him we had to get a pushback clearance first.GROUND CREW SALUTE: The girl who was marshalling us had absolutely no idea of the proper way to salute indicating that we were clear. She never had her arms up forming an 'X'. Her arms hung vertically down at her sides while I waited for a salute. Her salute consisted of a half-hearted raising of one arm and placing the wand across her forehead. This ground crew is an accident waiting to happen.
B737 Captain reported unsafe deviations from SOP during pushback.