Entry
log at June 06, 2015 Saturday
Out
of nowhere I was called by the cabin phone and was asked to get some sort of 20
U.S. dollars from the bridge. I had no idea what this is all about and was only
clarified that it was a sort of "Vetting Bonus" . Well I guess 20
dollars is better than nothing, but the thing here is this - according to
Electrician Felix Rodriguez , we shouldn't be just getting only 20 U.S. dollars
and apparently it should be roughly about 66 U.S. Dollars per person. Now the
question here is where the hell did the extra 46 U.S. Dollars per person went ?
Thirdmate
Corales and Electrician Rodriguez suspects that it just went to the personal
pocket of Captain Sorin Sageta and that he went greedy over the money. The
thing here is that we went all the trouble and hard work on the vetting and yet
the one's reaping the rewards was this so called "captain", making a
"cut" on other peoples wages, what a total corrupt exploiting bastard
!
After
collecting my 20 dollars and hearing Third mate and Electrician's chat about
this matter , I went to the crew mess to have a drink and saw more of my crew
mates discussing the same subject about the "vetting bonus" . They
even plan making an attempt to report this matter via email on NSB authorities.
Knowing Filipino's are , I don’t think that this plan of disposing Sorin will
ever materialize at all and I doubt that anyone of the crew has the guts or the
balls to fight for what is right. Pathetic as this may sound but this is what
Filipino's are, They grumble a lot and
discuss a lot of things and talk a lot of stuff on other peoples backs but when
it comes to the actual crunch time and moment of truth , they have little
courage to speak out and fight for their beliefs and report abusive ship
captains - for short , I hate to admit
it but Filipino's are a bunch of cowards.
My
crewmates hesitate to report this crooked captain, they even said (and fear)
that if we went into taking an action in reporting this to NSB, the principal
will respond on withdrawing this perk called "vetting Bonus"
altogether. Honestly how could they think about a small sum of money at a time
like this ? Think of the lives and other people they we are going to save if
sorin has been disposed of ! The perk to be cancelled is just trivial compared
to safety and long term peace it will bring if Sorin is kicked out of NSB , We
could earn the 60 U.S.D in other ways rather than be always plagued frequently
by this menace, could they live on the full duration of their stay here being
exploited and pushed around by him ?! . They should think first of the good it
will bring if Sorin is kicked out rather than the selfish desire of money, NSB
would be a much safer place without sorin and it will be one less Dysfunctional
ship captain out there in the maritime community to worry about if he's sacked.
As I had been telling on my previous blogs entries, Most people
think that Ship Captains are a reasonable , gentle and wise individuals like
the person portrayed in the movies like "Captain Phillips" (starring tom hanks). In real life however it
is exactly opposite, they are vicious, greedy and a total psychopath in any way
possible. Ship
Captains typically have antisocial personality disorder that act in a way that
disregards the feelings and rights of other people. Ship Captains often break
the law, and they may use or exploit other people and their job position for
their own gain. They may lie repeatedly, act impulsively, and get into physical
fights. They may mistreat, neglect or abuse crew members, and most likely
exploit their crew. They may even kill other crew members. You won't see on their faces the things like guilt and remorse -
Their just simply evil people that have a high salary. So if Pop Culture says
that ships captains are Good individuals then their absolutely wrong about that
impression
In
other news …
The
following day, the crew was still basically into discussion about this
"Vetting Bonus" of whether or not they should report this to the NSB
management. After work which lasted until 3pm (its Saturday it was supposedly
to be that working hours are only until noon time).All of the deck crew are
suddenly asked to go the bridge at 5pm for a so called "meeting" ,
well it turns out that it wasn't a meeting but a "scolding" session.
When
me, A.B. Ryan , A.B. Luis Allan Arriesgado, and O.S. Keith entered the doorway
, Keith had the courtesy to greet "Mr Cobra" good afternoon and was
immediately rebuffed and shouted by Cobra saying "Maybe good for you ! But
not for me !!!" . Dismayed on what we saw , we never said a word and just
when straight ahead . 5 minutes later all the deck crew were already in the
bridge and that was when the freak show started and half an hour full of
scolding from our reptile captain. From what I remember on the
"scolding" he says the following "I already gave you beer, I
already gave you money , what you want me to do ?! Give you my mother to look
after you !!!" and saying that we should continue working for the whole
day on Saturday and half a day on Sunday (in other words whole week of work) ,
I couldn't exactly remember the rest but everybody got the scolding but the
worse who got all was BOSUN Diosana and A.B. Ryan. After the scolding session
everyone was in a depressingly dark mood and were just hanging out on the crew
mess. It was difficult for me to give the case of beer (ordered by Mr. cobra
before the "scolding Incident" that this case of beer be distributed
to the crew ) to my crewmates knowingly that they're were in the bad mood , but
I still went on it in distributing it anyway as ordered to me by third mate
corales. I did gave the case of beer to them and let them decide what to do
with it.
When
I handed out the case of beer to them, It was obvious that they were not in the
mood and said that "they can buy their own beer" . As protest by
Pumpman Thanny Sepulveda, Bosun Diosana and the rest of the crew to send a
message that their not happy on the captain, they returned the case of beer
back right in front of the Captain's Cabin.
Later
at night, I received a call from third mate, informing me that three of cases
of becks beer have been unaccounted .
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| Caricature drawing i made of our "Mr. Cobra" , A very venomous Ship captain !! BEWARE !!! |
