On the
morning of March 28th , I set out to look for a job. Travelling is less costly
(and less stressful) from marikina going to intramurous manila than marikina
going to Evangelista makati. So I'm at least comfortable , I had already done a
lot of thinking a few days back and I'm already sick and tired of deliberating
over and over again on whether I should look for work or not after being put on
holding status for 5 months now. That long wait for me is already justifiable
enough to do some action rather than wait, Besides both options for me are
uncertain. Uncertain if I could get a job and uncertain that my current company
will ever call back at all. Frankly despite my advances in the maritime career
, I don’t have the self-confidence as I had on a land based job (specifically
BPO kind of work) , Probably because majority of the attempts I made in the
past was met with disappointments and disasters.
My intent
date to look for work was on the 28th but due to suffering a bad cold and
cough, I had to postpone my sortie for 48 hours, until my health improves. On
Wednesday , My health seemed to be ok and went to intramurous Manila. I came to
the company at around 10:00 and I was literary a walk in applicant. Due to my
little mistake with the guard (actually a misunderstanding which I will later
apologize to my contact / sponsor there) I was put on a different principal
that the one I was intently aiming at. As a result I had to do a longer version
of the application process than the shorter one, In any case I went on the
process of being interviewed repeatedly and taking two types of computer
related exam, plus the trouble of being checked out for background checks. It
did not pose any problems but however it took me a while to achieve my
objective.
After
achieving the Objectives. Some of the staff on the company asked me that if
it's possible for me to be mobilized within 24 hours given that I had a U.S.
Visa, I told them it's not exactly possible on the fact that there are a lot of
things to consider first. I enumerated first that I don’t exactly have my
passport yet and it's still on the current possession of my current company ,
aside from that I'm not sure if some of the documents I had are still valid ,
plus even if both of these are ok, I still had to deal with the medical clinic
along with some other paper works like allotment slip on banks. So basically my
answer was a big no , but I said it in a gentle way. The last part on my sortie
was I had to talk with the operations manager which asked me a few questions,
incidentally the room was a bit dimmer and the guy was creepy and scary kind of
guy. Which the funny part of it was that the interview looked more of like an
interrogation.
Before my
sortie ends I was ordered by the to retrieve two things. One is the evaluation
report and the other was sea service certificate (which is equivalent to
"certificate of employment" document on any land based job).
The
following day I went to Career Ship management, I wasn't comfortable in telling
the company that I'd be leaving but of course there is no other option and I
have to bid farewell to them. When I arrived I went directly to Captain Galang
the operations manager and said my predicament. Captain Galang was very
professional and friendly on our discussion certainly a real example of a good
superintendent , Compared to other superintendents that I know from the past
who are nothing more than a bunch of nasty sons of bitches. Captain Galang was
very helpful and even pointed me on the right direction on where I would claim
my documents and even put on a good word to the company I'm transferring that
I'm scheduled to be promoted to A.B.
I recovered
the few remaining documents they have in possession except the Certificate of
sea service which I will recover by Monday. After that I'd be directly submitting it to the company I'm transferring
at. As for the confidential / evaluation report , It looks like that I won't be
getting a copy of it at all because of some paper work problems from the
principal (apparently they were lazy on the paper work).
On my way
home, at the bus. I received a text and apparently this came from one of my
most recent haters on my blog , "Chris rematotot" errr
"Christian Remoto" . Anyway the text as usual is nothing but full of
shit just like as his name is. Apparently even threatens me to report my blog
to the company which I doubt because guys like him don’t have any balls,
besides good luck to him if he ever does that, and he can give my regards to
the crewing manager - more importantly I haven't heard of any sailor who got
reprimanded because he was maintaining a blog. In any case it only shows proof
on how stupid and idiotic this so sailor called "Christian Remoto" ,
can he think of something else that is original ??!! And if he's going to take
vengeance, can he please hurry it up because I'm getting bored with all his
talk but no action . He can just plainly kiss my ass !!!
Anyway
there isn't that much to expect on that stupid old Mongoloid aside from
harassing people both on the internet and in real life , but from what I heard
being dumb and stupid can be genetically inherited and let's hope that it won't
be passed down to his children or else society will be again in burden for
adding numbers to the mongoloid populace. Overall this reflects on how poorly
civilized Filipino sailors are - that they stalk people. Anyway based on his
SMS message he apparently comes from of the provinces, which is not surprising
on the fact that most people there are savages and lack urban manners compared
to people who came from metro manila area and Makati (or at least G.M.A. i.e.
greater manila area) . I ask myself and wonder how jebsen even hired an idiotic
savage like him ? Probably jebsen management is crapping out on their job and
forgot to screen out people like these ? Or
maybe they have lowered their employment standards to pathetic levels.
