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| Terrible long line of applicants in Career |
Upon
the insistence of my dad that i should look back and explore possible
companies out there that might accommodate me in the maritime, I did
went out to look for another.
My only
link to this is either my Uncle Mel thru Scanmar shipping company and another
named Capt N. Betts from Career Philippines Ship management. Since the previous
company i went to look for a job didn't even bothered to call me or at least
get my papers, I could only guess that Scanmar Shipping Company is not going to
take interest in me, After all its been 11 months passed since my resume was
put in their office and they never even got the trouble to at least notify me
if I got the job or not.
I guess
the rumors i heard that Scanmar Shipping being a bastard company might be right
afterall ,
I should
have known better......
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| D/C employees waiting for "quasi militaristic training" |
Anyway
now comes the 2nd option and see if Career and "Capt, Nick Betts"
words are 100 percent gold. I had been waiting for almost a year with
"Captain Nick Betts" just to refer me to his company. And now the
time has come to join and see if this second plan of mine works. It was a great
opportunity for me that "Capt Nick Betts" was around and was willing
to refer me to his company called career.
Immediately
I went to dress myself after the SMS I got from "Nick" that he'd
fetch me up on Masinag market and after that I took a jeepney to proceed to
masinag, waited for a few minutes there until he arrives in a Red Nissan
Centra. I quickly hop into his car and he said that were going to fetch in
another guy in Santolan , by the time we got there a cadet joined in the car.
We drove off a few minutes and passed by cubao till the makati area. In the area near alpha land mall ,
"Nick" lost directions and we got lost for a few minutes , and
circled the area in pasong tamo twice before finally figuring out that he
should take a right turn to go thru Evangelista street in Makati.
When we
arrived , we were joined in by another guy in the Jollibee fast food, so that
counts the number to four people which is "Captain Nick", Me the OS ,
"The Messman" and the "Deck Cadet". A few moments later we
went to Career Philippines Ship management and talked to the guys responsible
for new recruit's called "Mr. SO" , we went to he's office. I'm not sure if Mr. SO is a Korean or a
Fil-chinese , because on the first look I would think he is either of the
two.
In any case from
what I do know is that this "MR. SO" is a maritime academy graduates
( guys who are cold, vengeful, sadistic, jealous bastards expect no
less). Based on the conversation with him and "Captain Nick" he was reluctant to accept both the
"Messman" and "Deck cadet" , apparently from my
understanding Mr. SO also a racist who degrades people that do not originated
from his maritime academy - anyway that's not a surprise to me, most academy
bastards are just like that , megalomaniac freaks.
Upon the three that
"Captain Nick" introduced in the office , I was the least (if not
wasn't) ridiculed at all given that among the three I was the highest rank and
got a BS degree. Another thing I guess that I wasn’t ridiculed was because I dressed
a bit better compared to the "messman" and the "deck
cadet", So well dressed that I think I intimidated Mr. SO ,
A few minutes later
we were given applications forms for interview and was given a scheduled to
meet Mr. SO again by Monday for the job interview . I'm not sure though if
things will work out by Monday , but I'd keep it posted .
"Messman"
was dropped off at MRT station in guadalupe , while "Deck Cadet" was
dropped in santolan station LRT2 , I was dropped off in Sta. Lucia in mall in
Cainta Rizal.
On monday ..........
The
"Messman" (Randy Navarro) and
I went again to Career Philippines Ship management to report back and pass our
application forms, It was around 10 am when I got there and got an appointment
slip.
Lunch time went and
there was no sign of me and "Messman" , being entertained and I guess
"Captain Nick Betts" was right that we have to wait patiently for
about 8 hours before being entertained. We took lunch at the small makeshift store
right beside the company building, then headed back to Career Philippines Ship
management office at around 2pm. It was a long tiring wait and I was already
beginning to feel the effects of fatigue and to add more I'm starting to have
thoughts that applying to this company is a bad idea after experiencing they're
so called "Hospitality" (in which I had to wait 8 hours before
finally being entertained) ,
at about 4:45 pm finally my name and the
"Messman" along with two others were called on the office of
"MR. HO" .
The first few
minutes that went by in his office was not exactly a job interview but more
like a simple 3 minute conversation were Mr. HO just summarily turns down the
job applications of two others without even looking on their resumes and
documents, Mr. HO as what I best described is a cold vengeful sadistic snobby
bastard ( typical attitude of people who graduated from The Philippine Merchant
Marine Academy). Even my companion "Messman" was given the summary
decision , By the time it was my turn to be interviewed I quickly gave him my
application form and said quickly that I was with "Captain Nick
Betts" last Friday and was told by you (MR.HO) to pass this to you by
Monday.
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| Hard to believe that these kids will be in for a lot of hardship under filipino hands , Some of them will face cruelty and maltreatment from they're filipino compatriots . Shame that they have to go on a fascist , quasi militaristic job. maybe someday Maritime industry will be no more here |
It was a decisive
move I made and prevented me from being given the "3 minute summary
decision" thing. The next thing Mr. HO gave me a piece of paper with a
drawing in it , he said that I should write down what best describes this
picture and that I should write it in more than a hundred words and in perfect
English grammar. I accepted the paper and immediately went to work , It took me
only few the task and unknown to Mr. HO , my English language proficiency is
very high given the fact that I am a Telephone operator in a call center.
I passed my test
papers and Mr. Ho couldn't find any "holes" on my grammar and English
writing skills. Then came the interview
which was very obvious that it was a one sided conversation, from what I recall
Mr. HO was making up a lot of petty excuses just to get rid of me, I even
recall him mistook and saying that he can't accept my application because my
cadetship was made on the interisland ship. WHAT THE FUCK !!!! Since when did
served in the Interisland Ship ??? Bastard didn't even looked on my Seaman's book
to verify . When I heard him say that , I didn't know if I was going to giggle to
laugh on his ignorance or be furious because of it. Anyway I did corrected him and said that It
doesn’t mean that I went to a Philippine flag means also that the ship is
interisland. When I said that , I could giggle on the look on his face knowing
that I contradicted him.
To avoid anymore
nasty conversation , Mr. Ho said that the application will be considered and
that I just have to report here in the career office every now and then and
dismissed me.
I do know better
that he will just throw my application form in the trash bin after that and
that you cannot have someone's word for it and that he's only saying that to
save grace knowing that this OS is more smarter than your average grunt.
Some people might
think that being a sailor and working seaborne is paradise, Hell they have no
knowledge that paradise isn't what exactly as what you think it is. There are a
lot of bastards here and if you don’t fight back or be at least street smart ,
chances are people will take advantage of it and abuse it. There are a lot of
these people in the maritime industry in the Philippines , far more worst and
more sinister than Mr. HO out there . PMMA and MAAP people are a bunch of
militaristic , racist facist pigs !
