Entry log : November 29, 2017 Wednesday
Location : Enroute to Qatar
Disappointments
have put me off lately., not with work (well most of it) but to some of my so
called "friends" on the social media., Recently I had been posting a
lot of negative stuff about my employer UPL Shell / Nakilat and as a result two
of my former friends (that what I call them now) has said to me that I should
keep my mouth shut because I deserve it and I signed the contract willingly,
and have just ignore it or deal with it. Another one also said (an Oiler) that
there nothing much I can do about it.
WHAT
THE FUCK ?!!!!! Do they even know how difficult it is to work with so many
restriction ?! Easy for them to say because they never have been on a tight ass
security all their seafaring lives' and they perfectly live on their very own
happiness bubble. I'm disappointed on them that they could have been at least
sympathetic on this rather than immediately side with Companies., They should
have at least put themselves on my shoes. - Totally frustrating that there are
people like that, a bunch of cowards and company loving folks.
Anyway
were Filipino's seafarer's , it's pretty much normal / typical for a Filipino
sailor to be a company booth licker - probably on the fact that most of them
are a bunch of cowards when they're already questioning the policies of any
shipping companies. The Seafaring world of Filipino's is not exactly democratic
even on the social media , almost everything is always suppress., here almost
everything is free to criticize except "shipping companies" - which
some even consider above the law.
Anyway
I don’t want to continue to write about those former unsympathetic friends of
mine , I'd just simply drop them off on my friends list and that will be the
end of it .
In
other news …..
Recently
during the tool box meeting this morning , it was a discussion about whether
the "Riding Party" this ship has (which includes me) will be used for
mooring operations and during cargo ops as well. Based on the latest decision
made by the captain ., The "Riding
party" (maintenance party) will not be used during that and only regular
crew will be on the mooring. As for the Cargo Operations (ship in port) it is
still not yet settled but is rumored that "Riding party" will only do
the usual day work maintenance stuff.
Guess
it means that as a riding crew I'm permanently stuck being on day work which
suit's me fine if not best. I have less things to worry about and besides .,
I'm not enjoying my work here as well because of too many restrictions. It's
just suffocating for me and from my initial analysis the working environment
here is too "rigid" and intolerant for me to professionally grow -
resulting for me to lose interest in even pursuing to settle here. I'm not even
expecting that my evaluation reports (or grades here) will be that high for
re-employment., and I won't bother if that is the case, I just want to finish
my contract and have no incidents and be back on the road again to find another
suitable company . UPL - Shell / Nakilat is not worth the effort, plain and
simple. A Company of tight asses !!!
So
most likely I'd be doing chipping rust , polishing metal surfaces and painting
plus occasional random maintenance work for the rest of six months. Nothing
fancy and nothing labor intensive, the only real challenge will be most likely
the rumored "Dry Docking" of this ship which will be labor work
intensive.
Another
rumor I heard on the treadmill was there's a possibility of a "Riding
crew" rotation for the O.S. when it comes to watch keeping. Anyway it's
still being considered from what I heard , so it's not confirmed yet. What I do
know is that O.S. Hesus Pamorada will be swapping roles on deck watchkeep to
O.S. "Jerson" by beginning December. Maybe for these two O.S. will be
swapping roles on the best of my knowledge, but on my case I think I'm staying
as O.S. for the maintenance and don’t mind staying there for a very good
reason.
Why
the hell would I be working on the job description that is for an A.B. . As far
as I know , UPL - Shell / Nakilat is just short changing people on salaries.
Imagine I'm doing a job that is an A.B. Unofficially and yet my salary is base
as an O.S. plus on top of that I'm officially an O.S. by papers and contract.
My salary is just 1129 U.S. here and I will be forced to do work as an A.B.
Compared to back when I was with Career NSB where I'm paid higher (1400 U.S.D.)
as an O.S. and don’t even have to do a job as an A.B. . As far as I'm concerned
UPL - Shell / Nakilat is just paying me short. If they want me to be interested
they should paid me a little bit more for my efforts , otherwise I'd just think
that they're just scamming me and cheating on the crew -
(problem
with an elderly Filipino sailors is that mostly they swindle on work and deceit
their fellow younger sailors , like for example your being paid as an O.S. and
yet doing work as an A.B. . The A.B. gets to do almost nothing and yet be paid
regular as an A.B. , while the O.S. gets to be forced to do his work because of
deception and be only paid in salary scale as an O.S. and not as an A.B. )
