November
22, 2019
Unexpectedly
"Alok" The Indian O.S. was called in the afternoon at the ships
office over some reason regarding medical test . It took only a few minutes and
went down and he revealed that he would be dismissed summarily because his drug
and alcohol test showed signs of possible marijuana intake. The bottom line he
told to us that he "will be sent home on next port" .
Immediately
the next day , he wasn't even allowed to go to work and was told that he will
be just confined on his cabin , kind of like "house arrest". Aside
from that , the worst is that rumors immediately started like wild fire, and
given the nature of us Filipino's being gossipers who can't keep their mouths
shut - fuelled more of the rumor and spread it like a plague. I guess that's
worst thing in working onboard a ship - utter no privacy of any kind
whatsoever.
Whether
or not the rumors are true , I think it’s a person's privacy and nobody has a
right to gossip against him and spread the rumor like wild fire - but I guess
this is the environment here as a seafarer , people here are always treated
unfairly and it would be foolish to let your guard down and discuss personal
information or even personal details (especially on personal matters) knowing
full well what kind of people we work here.
I
writing about this because , It's not right to treat a person that way. The
companies action was very swift and brutal and without any fair judgment, and
the reaction of us Filipino's against that person was equally so, it's not fair
to spread and make gossips about him, this is something I really despise to my
own kind and on this job , people here have utter no good manners and I wonder
if this people have a sense of humanity with them,.
Poor
guy was confined on his quarters for the whole week before he was sent home. He
disembarked in fujirah , UAE.
In
other news..
Now
that the old captain has disembarked (along with the indian O.S.)and replaced
by the new Russian one . Things here have started to get lax, No more of
restraining ourselves on not drinking juice in the ref , nor going to the crew
late on dinner time etc. We can now easily do our job better when he's no
longer around - good riddance !!!
Back
when he was still around here, things were tense and we have to be careful and
meticulous on about almost everything we do. Even had to watch breakfast, lunch or dinner because he always
monitors us and see how much food we end up eating. The way he acts feels more
like he's the human version of a CCTV camera - very control freak kind of
individual. He even take's coffee break at the same time as our coffee break ,
just to monitor people. (and using it as a ruse). It’s a good thing that one of
the crew here (pump man) have already sailed with him before and warned us
about the old captains deception. He was
basically a general threat here.
Now
that he's gone and disembarked in fuijrah UAE. All of the crew won't have to
worry about him anymore being a pest
