European
EMSA audit is causing a lot of stir lately on the Philippine sailing community
and some huge changes on how things are run. Apparently from what I heard in
the news is that EMSA is really determine to wipe out every Filipino off the
face of any European flag (or owned) ship, but come to think of it lets say
that indeed Filipino's get kicked out by EMSA ( all the 80,000 plus Filipino
sailor which equals to one third of the
entire active Filipino sailor population - TAKE NOTE ACTIVE , DOESN’T INCLUDE
THE INACTIVE SAILORS) . Now who do you think will replace the vacuum that we
will be leaving behind when that time comes eh ? Europeans ? Hmpf ! For all I
know Europeans have a much a higher salary value that putting them on the
workforce thread mill bracket would be 21 flavours of stupidity for any
"European" shipping company who are budget conscious, plus European
sailor's don’t like the idea that their salaries will be haggled by any
shipping company and doing manual labour - only us Filipino's are stupid enough
to accept those kinds of terms .
Alright so
how about other "Asian's" , like say Indian's , Indonesian's or
better yet the Chinese were they have a much lower salary bracket and they come
on bigger pool of numbers than Filipino's ??? (just check the statistics on
their population) hmm well I don't think so. Well there was an incident that
happened eons ago were I was still in grade school learning how to write , that
Filipino's were actually being phased out by (surprise !!!) by European
companies. Heck they were so determined on exterminating us for cheap labour
that they even invested in putting up a huge number of "quality"
facilities outside in the Philippines just to replace us. Apparently it ended
up less than they wanted to, facilities turned out to be in tattered condition
in a couple of months and companies just ended up throwing their money to the
grand canyon. To make the story short , Filipino's sailors are still around and
those installations are not.
Personally
I think EMSA is not the kind of thing that could be bargained or reasoned with
, They'd still try to put us out of business no matter if we even complied on
their terms. So it's basically this decision is already rigged from the start
and even if they try to phase us out again , they can't exactly exterminate us
all , Filipino sailors are too many and too widespread, that they'd have a very
difficult time trying to get rid of us and most probably they'd be begging us
back in a couple of years or so.
For Marina
(Maritime Industry Authority ) , This agency It Isn't exactly the best solution
out there but it is definitely better than dealing with multiple government
agencies for maritime related affairs. Unfortunately this will be the only sole
heir left on any maritime related needs of sailors in the near future (as of
circa 2014), Bad for us Filipino sailors in the sense that their giving a
despot too much power and I had serious doubts that their dealings will be fair
and just like what the fiasco they did on the COP's document, let alone
handling of the professional license of sailors nor handling of the maritime
schools in the country. The thing here is this - things will start to get worse than it is
getting better before we even know it.
Anyway
that's not the reason why I'm writing about this. Recently I came up on the
list about "the official maritime schools" sanctioned by the
education department called "CHED" which has a connection on the upcoming ban of EMSA ,
unfortunately when I looked on the list - my school was not included on the
2013 (or 2014) list of qualified schools. The school I graduated from is
already been on this business for nearly half a century , and that’s the big
problem . Since they had been so long as people could remember , they started to lax and become complacent ,
to the point that they never adapted anything or made innovations to their
facilities - nor even improve at all. Overtime their system of education rot
and got the attention of the education department, If I recall correct CHED
sent a warning to them way back in 2006 and basically they just ignored it and
it was only up to 2012 when CHED decided that it's about time they get slapped
in the head.
Obviously
when it got to the public that my school got closed , no one could argue the
reasons why it got closed - they knew basically that my school deserved what it
got . Last I heard from the school was that it was still in business but only a
court order prevents its closure. I'm not exactly sure on how long my school
could hold out that long with only a piece of paper as a life line from being
shut down PERMANENTLY, eventually I'm not going to be surprise one day if that
happens. The school management knew it had it coming ,
Maybe
somewhere along the line , my school made a lot of poor decisions along the
way, Things that proved to be fatal to them in the long run. I still remember
the days during college that my school was heavily investing on propaganda
rather than taking care of the welfare of their education system. They always
blabber about how the schools founder discovered some islands on the ass end of
west Philippines. They were on so much propaganda that I sometimes think that
they're building a "cult of personality" on the schools founder. Yeah
sure there is no doubt that my schools founder has some achievements during his
time but those accomplishments he made during his life has no relation at all
on the schools situation. The worst part is that almost all of their
instructors are corrupt and ruthless, to the point that a college students
lunch money end up being on the pockets of these instructors. Even the
descendant of the schools founder was ruthless enough to practice these (which
happened to be an instructor as well on this very school).
One of the
worst instructors there on my school was this person named Mr. Malacas
(translation in English "Mr. Strong"), he was a viciously ruthless
sociopath in any way a person can think of - he was pure evil incarnate. Aside
from using coercion to force his student in handling over their money, he's
infamously known to bring a 45. calibre hand gun in the classroom while
literary counting the loot he got in his students and even arrogantly shows it
off openly on the teacher's desk and makes threats that if any NBI or police
shows up (or any law enforcement) the first person right in front of him will
be shot. Hmpf I guess that's how he got his rank of second mate , shooting
innocent 15 - 16 year olds teenagers. Aside from that he is also infamously
known to harass any student he comes across, doesn’t matter what time or place
as long as he was in the mood of harassing people , he do whatever he can think
of to cruelly harass people. Now What kind of a fucking teacher is that eh
??Another incident is that apparently he coerced a female student in another
college department to have sex with him , sad to say the student really ended
up a local motel with him.
Going back.
my school never made any progress in improving their facilities hence as a
matter of fact as time goes by , basic facilities and overall look of the
school campus deteriorates beyond any passing rate to the point that even a public elementary school looks even
better than my college maritime school at that time.
By the time
I'm writing this MARINA will come up soon on the list of "EMSA"
qualified maritime to verdict CHED's decision, Unfortunately my school's fate will finally be decided by that.
Don’t get me wrong I support
my alumni school PMI, I came from that place , but I'm not some blind, Flag
saluting , founder worshipping do-as-they-will PMI Lover, Their family
like a kid brother, but let me tell you what family really means . You ever had a kid brother ? Some dumbass
delinquent younger brother, say, who banged up the pastor's daughter, can't
hold a job, and his home away is a jail cell? - that’s what PMI is. All I'm
saying is it’s a good wake up call for them that CHED kicked them in the nuts ,
I just wished that sometimes MARINA should slap the heads of PMI school
official instead and tell them on how really a maritime school should be run.
