Entry log : December 04, 2017 Monday
Location : Ras Laffan Qatar
A
few more days and I will be going now for a month here., and the ship has now
berthed to Rass Raffan Qatar after almost a two week long travel. Mooring wasn't that complicated, this LNG
ship uses Rope for the mooring and all of them are dedicated for headline ,
breast line and spring lines. Absolutely no loose ropes for the mooring ops.
The mooring is so easy even for liquid tanker standards.
Currently
I'm assigned for the gangway and was surprised that handling it was more
complicated than I thought it would be.
First
off people have are obsessed on details even down to the minute. I can't
imagine that (Filipino) crew here pressures to remember even names of the
person who visited the ship and on top of that I have to even memorize how many
tags are there currently on the ISPS box. ( Which is 15 visitor tags, and
another 15 contractor tags). People here are so exaggeratedly on almost
everything and if even I miss a small detail, I have to go the trouble of
arguing and even explaining it - plus to make it more complicated is the fact
that my fellow crew men here have a nasty habit of finding out whose fault it
was and blaming it to other people rather than solving the problem head on.
Such example was early morning when I immediately greeted with scolding by A.B.
Patel, over a small lapse on visitors tags. And it only takes 3 tags for that
fucker to be fired up like i made a mortal sin in writing it mistakenly on the
Visitors log. It's no big deal for me but for them it's like someday is going
to end the world.
Another
thing that happened is the 3cm errors I made in reading the ships alignment on
the shore side ., The officer's freaked out on my reading and even some of
co-workers during the ship that they had to frequently lecture me about it .
Unbelievable !!! It's just 3 cm and a person's thumb is even bigger than that
gap measurement and yet they react that it's as big as a whale.
Anyway
it's easier for them to blame the fault on other people , just to save their
own skin from being fired. After all the System here doesn't tolerate even the
smallest mistake and its takes only that to be fired instantly without fair
judgment. Workers here work because of fear , not for money or for a
comfortable environment, but because they're scared of being fired and it’s a
very poor motivation.
I'm
ashamed that my fellow Filipino sailors here have degenerated so low. Rather
than making a positive and welcoming environment for new crew , they end up
dumping their own work problems to the new guys. Plus taking advantage of it.
Such an unnatural perfectionist people ! Really pathetic ! And I'm not
surprised that most of their younger crew fled out on this company because of
this kind of working environment. Their work ethics and work practices are like
the seafarers of the old ., Its amazing that despite the modernist of today's
era in seafaring like the millennia's generation (and entire generation of
seafarers that are exposed to social media etc.) ., there still exist a dark
spot and it is UPL - Shell / Nakilat .
