February 15, 2014 Saturday
Saturday as expected wasn't exactly "half-Day" work at
all, Apparently Chief Mate Bezruchko
isn't very lenient when it comes to weekends compared to his predecessor Chief
Mate Nagorny and as anticipated most of the crew here are not very happy about
it. Usual practice here in this ship (Cape Tallin), Saturdays are half day work
while Sundays are rest day. However ever since Captain valeriy and Chief mate
Bezruchko arrived they started having idea's cancelling off rest days (It
started on my entry "Pointing Fingers") and putting more work load,
worst part of it is that were already over worked and the overtime pay got
decimated to around only 55 hours instead of the usual 120 Hours as normal
practice here.
Captain Valeriy is already gone and has been replaced by Captain
Slabada (during this ships dry dock repairs last January 2014) however the
practice of cancelling out weekends still haven't stopped, The insult to this
is that they're cancelling out weekends on a normal maintenance operation and
its not even an emergency at all (Like
cargo loading / discharge operations).
Having a weekends off is good , but on how are the things going
here. Assume that weekends will be always cancelled out for the time being
until chief mate Bezruchko gets disposed of.'
Anyway For the work on Saturday , nothing much was done, I just
swept the whole ship from forward till i ended up somewhere in the mid ship
area. Wasn't really a tiring job. By the way while I was in the middle of my
work, temperatures suddenly drop near freezing level and there was a huge fog
coming from the sea (sea smoke). I had to put on my winter coveralls as a
precaution and i don't want to repeat the same mistake i did during the dry
docks.
There was one thing i could recall though about me giving my wenger
Swiss army knife to O.S. De Monte before i disembark on this ship. Honestly I
don't see anything wrong about giving it to him, and we were having a
conversation when all of a sudden BOSUN Amican "Frog Face" butted in
and said "We're is his gift, after
i disembark" , I replied and said he doesn't need it and that both
of us are disembarking on the same time. He replied again and said "how
about on our next ship ?" , I just kept silent. I said to myself "as
if I'm going to see the like's of you on my next ship, This is a huge company
and there is little possibility at all that i would encounter you on my next
ship. Thank god we wont be seeing each other again and I'd be getting rid of
you once and for all, otherwise its going to be another 10 month hell hole for
me" , aside from that i don't give memento's to bad guys.
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| an example of a muster station bill |
We search for some time however we came up with nothing at all , it
was chief engineer and his team who got the "dummy box" .
Anyway i think the security card drill I got has some problems and
whoever wrote it haven't checked out the possibility that there are some parts
there that overlap each others duties, like for example the fore castle part
which from what i recall is the duty search of the BOSUN and A.B. 3 only.
As for the news regarding my disembarkation, there's currently a new
word about it. Apparently from what i heard is that our crew relievers are
already set up and ready to go and that they're already waiting for us to wrap
things up here on the loading operations in Kerch, Ukraine. The only problem i
heard is that both Ukraine and Russia is not a *convenient port* for Filipino
sailors to disembark with,( meaning we cant join or leave the vessel while were
here) and we have to wait until this ship arrives on the Turkish straights for
the crew exchange, in the meantime both CSM and career are declaring up a part of our contract that says
specifically + / - one month (either 8 months or 10 months) , simply saying that
were still going to be here on this ship until march.
Bottom line is that it only boils down on one meaning - I'm stuck
here until we finished up the loading operations and transit out of the Baltic
