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ENTRY: September 06, 2016 Tuesday
Location:
Singapore anchorage
On the past
couple of days without the "repair crew" around , things here have
been quieter and peaceful, and more time for me to pitch in and do work
unhindered. Somehow I had no worries leaving my equipment behind, and it
doesn’t go missing suddenly.
It has been
busy and a lot of work is still yet to be made with the lack of man power
around, but I think it’s the best rather than had a lot of trouble with the
"repair crew" . Before I'm not confident leaving my stuff behind even
on the locker room, sooner or later some guy from the repair crew would grab it
without my knowledge and by the time I know something is missing, - it all too
gone and too late.
In the
recent days that they were gone, working on deck has turned to shit lately, and
both the Indian chief mate and Myanmar Captain has been increasingly annoying
on work that even the DNV - GL surveyors find them mistreating. One such
example is that they don’t give people here a proper rest and break time, and
only allowed people here only 15 minutes rest for the whole day. Even the meal
breaks were being violated and coffee or water break time is cancelled, people
here are being overworked for petty meaningless reasons, that don’t even
qualify as urgent or important. Even the DNV - GL surveyors are complaining
about this.
Seriously
these pathetic ship officers, being so "company dogs" that they
intentionally neglect MLC rights and violate seafarers contract terms (such as I mentioned earlier about meal breaks etc.). If they keep this maltreatment up to their crew and
the DNV - GL surveyors, sooner or later it will back fire with them - and when
it does, I'm going to be there and laugh at them. They deserve the worst
punishment ever , and their lower than scum, their very lucky and fortunate
that this ship is travelling in the far east international labour laws like MLC
and ITF doesn’t have a firm reach and no visible enforcement. This is one of
the harsh realities of being a sailor , Chances are most people you encounter
as sailors are bad people. There are a few good people but a majority of them
are scum (both filipino and non-
filipino's). I hope kids or people who
read this blog understood the dangers and get the idea , that being a sailor is
one of the worst jobs on the planet.
Going
back to what I was discussing over, The Indian Chief mate and the Myanmar
Captain kept dumping us with work orders that its getting impossible to
complete a task for five minutes without being interrupted and being dumped
again with a new one. This treatment is getting worse as the day passes and
eventually I'd be fed up and be changing tactics as a result and apply some
forbidden one's like "Job avoidance" . Ethically job avoidance is not
a right thing to do (as like any other
jobs out there as I know), but if I
weight my situation right now and justify it - probably it's the best thing
action I had to make as of the moment. They treat their subordinates like crap
and keeps pushing and stepping on them , then it's only a matter of reason and
logic that I should do the same. As like Captain Betts told me once "you
sow, what you reap" .
In other
matters
Lately
I had been discolouration of my eye area, apparently this might be the result
of too much sun exposure lately. The rest of my face is ok given that I wear a
balaclava mask (facemask) when I go to work , except for the eyes of course
because it's the part where its open
To smoothen
out the discolouration , I had to experiment on wearing a coloured safety
glasses for now to at least remove the dark spot on my eye area. The area is so
dark that when I remove my mask I looked more like a raccoon.
