Entry log is June 28, 2016 , TUESDAY
Latest
updates about this ship's "dry dock" repairs was rumored to be sooner
and will be dubai instead of somewhere in china. Although this info has not
been confirmed yet by our Myanmar captain, so for now if there's no final word
from the management - I'd just consider this info to be moot.
If the
rumors were indeed true however, I'd bet that next month's weather will be
difficult for me and will be a "blow torch" for me in Dubai. The
encyclopedia I looked about UAE's climate are very clear that temperatures in
that area spike to as much as 49 degrees Celsius, and with me having a no
effective means or counter tactics against high temperatures, I'm not exactly
sure on how things will turn out for me there, for the moment THERE IS NO
EFFECTIVE WORK TACTICS AGAINST HOT WEATHER, compared to cold weather
environments.
In other
news…
Official
pay slips just came out regarding our pay and as expected there is no actual
cash handed out, just a paper slip and details saying this amount of money is
deposited on our bank account. Obviously there is no certain way that I could
verify if what the paper slip says is true or not - not without internet. A lot
of my crew mates are even speculative on the pay if it did or did not even
deposited the salary immediately. They're worried that CF Sharp might
"hold" the money first until they arrived in the Philippines (which
is still 8 months at least in estimate) and deposited it later. True or not on
the speculations , it is evident that CF sharp has a possibility (as like any
other manning companies out there in the Philippines) of conning people. This
shows the fact that even if the company has already been around for some time
(75 years or so) and legal doesn't necessarily guarantee that they will not do
something that is illegal and do a work that’s exactly a snow job.
Like I said
there's no possible way to tell at the moment if the pay did reach out bank
account. The only thing certain is that they're no handling out cash here on
this ship.
In relation
to this
It now
official on how much did we got from all our work efforts and sadly much to
everybody's disappointment. The overtime pay was pathetic to every angle. The
lowest who got the overtime pay was the engine department, and the highest was
the galley department. The deck department was only mid-tier. The highest
overtime pay rate was only 24 hours total for a month and the lowest was only
about 7 hours.
Main
culprit why the overtime pay is low ? Simple answer ! They had us maximized the
whole allotted 85 hours stipulated on the contract before they can pay anything
extra, We literary had to fill all that working hours for the whole month -
sticking to what the paper contract literary tells. If this was the case, we'd
be better off in a fixed overtime pay and that its best to underperform rather
than over perform, because being over perform doesn't pay as much as
underperforming - simple as that.
I recall on
how much disgusted mess man Christopher Cemania says during lunchtime saying
that the pay was a total rip off and Norstar / Cf Sharp is ripping us off on
our salary. He added that 7 month's work here is more than enough, anything
beyond that is torture.
More and
more people here are joining in the "dissatisfied" group which only
started loosely on just three people. Me, Oiler Allan and Fitter Amiel and from
the start us three we not even talking to each other. With now more recently
two O.S. submitted their "repatriation" leave, the only question now
is who among crew will stand up and have the balls to leave the job ?
As of the
latest news O.S. Molina's request was turned down by the office apparently his
excuse was very lame (quitting his job to get married) , which I admit has very
poor reasons why he wanted to go back home, as a result he became the laughing
stock for the whole ship, at least for a week. As for O.S. Luib, Marder's
reasons , there is no word yet if it was accepted or not.
