January
12, 2019 Saturday
Enroute
to UAE
As
expected the "VIP" came here onboard at around noon time . His name
is apparently Mr. Gallantes , he's about 67 years old and from first look he's
just a typical old man who will wreak havoc for a couple of days here . Not
exactly literal havoc but will definite disrupt normal routine work when this
superintendent is around.
A
few hours after he went onboard , the superintendent immediately conducted his inspections and was seen on the deck
roaming along with 2nd officer. I was washing the deck area at that time when I
saw him .
Now
two days after he arrived , he's checking and interviewing crew at random and asking questions about company related
info. Obviously I don’t know much about info about OSM - TCC (tai cheon chen)
and I don’t care about it nor even bothered to know because I'm not planning to
staying for the long term in TCC. Besides what good does it make if I even
bothered to know about this info ? Even if I do there is nothing to be gained
about this ., My salary rate will still be the same as it was and employment
standards and condition will still be the same and seafaring job is still a
maintenance / construction manual kind of work, IT"S NOT AN INTELLECTUAL JOB AND
NEVER A KIND OF JOB THAT WILL BENEFIT MANKIND
I
simply do not understand why people here (and i) have to put up so much effort
on something that’s not even worth half of it - It's too much of a hassle
and a lot more trouble than its actual
worth, besides this is a ship. Our main purpose here is to work and NOT TO
STUDY, they're making this ship look more like a training center than a
merchant vessel.
For
me it's totally unnecessary at all about the crew being randomly asked ., and
from my point of view this is just simply a publicity stunt meant to brag to
the company that their crew are so called "well trained, upstanding ,
blindly loyal booth licking employee's" . To be frank , I never liked
companies who have an ego perfectionist kind of theme and this is what likely
will happen to TCC company probably later on ( and much to my horror as well
this company even idolizes the dreaded "SHELL" company and copies some of its policies,
although on a lesser extent). Fortunately for me , this companies' egoistic
perfectionist mentally is not as severe as my former employer but nevertheless
its policies are still repulsive for me.
Reality
check here is that OSM - TCC is nothing more than a second rate wannabe shell
clone, with a goatee and superiority complex
