JOURNAL ENTRY DATE : December
7, 2017 Thursday
Although
it dangerous to be carrying around electronic items , not because it was a
safety hazard - but more of a professional hazard. From what I could tell
anyone caught having an electronic device outside the accommodation could lead
to summary dismissal from work (fired immediately). Especially the
"zero" tolerance policy of Shell / Nakilat and to ensure that
everyone follows this , almost the whole part of the ship and working area are
littered with CCTV's (closed circuit camera) to ensure complete monitoring at
all times.
I'm
planning in bring outside a small camera , not exactly the typical digital
camera but a smaller version. Fortunately for me I have a Liquid image type
action camera which I could use originally as an action camera which can be
used to take pictures. It small and portable enough to go almost unnoticed but
I have to do first is memorize the control on how to take pictures. And if I
goes operational I should avoid the CCTV's while taking pictures
On
the early morning during the tool box talk , (some sort of meeting before
work). The pilot ladder rigging issue on the pilot access was brought up again,
and given with its fault finding culture here Bosun berlix is looking for
someone to blame rather than make solutions , the same goes as well on A.B.
"wendel" . Algerian Chief mate says that it doesn’t matter who's
fault it was but what matters is what will be the solution now that the pilot
ladder was discovered broken. I just listening amused (and somewhat pity) on
how pathetic my fellow Filipino crew mates react on blaming equipment failure
to other people and everyone is giving a lot of excuses on it and not going on
solutions. Really pathetic !!!
Working
relations here now are starting to get worse all the time., One such example is my recent entanglement with my job
which unfortunately unable to finish in time. My current work at that time was
the simple chipping and polishing of rusted areas, Sounds pretty simple but the
problem was that some of the areas were not painted well . Why ? Because most
of them were not simply finished - not chipped nor polished with a wire brush -
so I simply didn’t paint them. Now I'm being questioned by Bosun Berlix and
lectures me, worst part is my co-worker O.S. Pomaran who also working on the
same site also joined in lecturing me and even blamed me on the same thing.
What the fuck ?!!
People
here are such back stabber's and fault blamers. I kept silent on what they were
saying but my eyes sent message that I was furious on them and just a vengeance
I was ignoring them all the time.
In
other news….
The
recent crew "safety meeting" introduced us to a new (deficiency
reporting) system to nakilat said to be replacing from the old "512"
form of shell and P.I. System (preventive intervention system). On the meeting
, it describes that this new "inspire" system is just a rehashed more
complicated version of "512" and "P.I." , basically its
just the same and the only difference is that it only add a comment remark -
just the same old deadly version , but different variant. A small piece of note
pad paper were people get fired - yes kind of a real world version of
"Death Note" (anime)
To
tell the "512" system of shell and "P.I." is an anonymous
reporting system were employees get fired, almost anyone can report a person
whom they find to be performing (or using ) Unsafe equipment or practices. Any
person who gets reported , has this note directly forwarded to the principal
(meaning shell and not UPL) and will be subjected to summary dismissal for
accusations of being "unsafe" . The principal (shell) will not hear
to the accused of his statement and be fired immediately.
Honestly
what kind of company tolerates this kind of practice were you have to back stab
people ? They say according to their propaganda that they value "safety
culture" , yes that's a point but do they value they employee's right ?
From what looking they just find people to be very expendable - and from my
personal opinion this system will not earn the respect of employee's and they
will only just work because of the fear and terror factor.
From
all the thing that Shell / Nakilat brags about and would be inventing. This so
called "insipre" , 512 or P.I. whatever is the most useless of all .
Funny that they always brags about having the latest and advance safety
equipment and even technologically advance ships but from what im seeing right
now , is that they only invented a piece of paper that is not
"professionally safe" at all. Whoever invented this is barely
passable as a human when it comes to thinking as an inventor. Totally worthless
piece of shit ! And misallocated company
funds ! They even bragged that this form is small enough to fit in a pocket to
be carried everywhere (which I find totally irrelevant ).
Good
thing for me , This is Shell / Nakilat and not the "main fleet' of shell
., were this is mandatory (and they do check , to see the crew complies)
After
the said safety meeting., it was still about 15 to 20 minutes left before work
is over for the day and I can't believe that we still have to be sent back , as
if like Shell / Nakilat is going to lose a lot of corporate money if I just
missed out only 15 minutes of work time.
