November
13, 2018 Tuesday
Enroute
now to Saudi Arabia
For
now there is no other maintenance work a "rating" would do here but
continue on the routine "Chipping, Brushing and Painting" scenario.
Yeah an endless scenario of what a Filipino seafarer would say "tiktik
Kalawang". despite what other wannabe High and elevated (filipino) ship
officer would say that it’s a derogatory work, I don’t find it to be that kind
of a lowly job. As a matter of fact , this is the most common and simplest of
all maintenance jobs here onboard - it doesn’t take a lot of muscle work to do
this.
"Chipping,
Brushing, Painting" Scenario work , will be the usual routine for a while
till this ship reaches UAE.
Funny
that Filipino's have been the largest nationality bloc in this profession for
roughly about 40 years now (since 1980's) and that they never realized on all
that time that a seafarer is actually a manual laborer job similar to a
construction job. Generations of social engineering at schools has left
seafaring in the Philippines to be perceived as quasi militaristic, Personally
speaking I never liked on what the maritime industry in the Philippines has
become - Seafaring is a civilian job , not a United Nations Peace Keeping
Force. Those idiotic high ranking Filipino's seafarers sitting at the company
chair never realized that. They seriously need a reality check
WATER
PROBLEM
And
I thought when this ship left Perth bound for UAE middle east , The problems
regarding water shortage and water discipline will be solved. Guess I was wrong
on that part and it turns out that water problem here still continues. Laundry
day as of the moment is still being on scheduled which meant I can't wash my
clothes immediately after use , same
goes as well for my working coveralls.
According
to this ships Uwak chief engineer., Ships water production has been very slow
lately and that there are few spare parts left for the ships purifier to work
on, thus there conserving them which in turn ships produces slowly on water. I'm not exactly sure on how would I believe
on this bullshit excuse , but for now I have laundry problems to deal with
aside from the low laundry soap and bathing soap I have. For now, they said
that we will be advise on when water will be available for everyday washing and
laundry.
Seriously
??!!! Since when is that going to take huh ?
This
"Uwaks" really know what the word pestilence means and When they are
around and onboard , they tend to make things really difficult for Filipino's.
Probably these fools are trying reason out this so called "Energy
Efficiency Plan" to applease TCC company and justify their actions on why they refuse to
give laundry soap and restrict water and bathing soap issue.
(for
the record , as of the moment NO laundry soap has been issued for two months
now and we were only given two bathing soaps for the whole month, the previous
month we were only given a bar of soap for the whole month).
I
never had these kinds of problems when I was on European ships (Career Ship
management) and even on Full crew Filipino ships ( Seacap Shipping) . Even if
there were "water discipline" issues , it only lasts for days -
certainly not weeks or months. Ever since I encountered "uwaks"
during CF Sharp - Norstar time and up to now (OSM - TCC). There has been water
issues that last for months , I'm starting really feel that "Uwak's"
are not the people who should one work with and this is going to be a very long
campaign before I finally get rid of OSM - TCC.
POSSIBLE
"OTHER" COMPANIES TO SETTLE WITH
During
the typical maintenance chore of "chipping, brushing and painting" .,
I came to a small talk with the new O.S. "Erwin". On our conversation he said Teekay company has a work practices similar
to "UPL - Shell", which this sounds really bad news for would be job
seekers , and an unsuspecting crew - in other words it has the same hostile
work practices .
On
my point of view its really horrible to be putting on that kind of situation
based on my experience with UPL - Shell.
Unsurprisingly
it has similar problems in crewing like shell because people are having an crew
exodus and avoiding teekay like the plague. (incidentally they are mass hiring
people in order to replace their crew losses).
I
think this is a total problem when "uwak's" are totally in control of
a shipping company. They tend to enforce work practices that are too hostile
for any other nationalities to thrive with - utterly they are monopolizing it
and being such a racist to other nationals.
Anyway
it pretty obvious that I'm not going to teekay nor any other shipping company
that has a heavy infestation of "uwaks" ., The work practices would
certainly be too hostile for me to thrive and advance , let alone settle on
that kind of work environment. For now my aim goal if I were to establish to
settle on a company it would be on an european environment and has no presence
of "uwaks" or filipino senior ship officers of any kind.
The
most appealing for me at the moment is going back to Career Ship Management or
Senator Crewing - given that these two companies have the same principal called
CSM and NSB. So it's possible that after I've done my business here with OSM.,
this is the place where I would likely go.
