It's
been a quiet month for the month of May and this ship has been here for almost
a month now in Netherland anchorage area and up to now there is no sign yet that this ship will go to berth
yet.
A
couple of weeks ago , This ship's Captain told the deck cadet to write down
names of any of the crew who wish to go home. Deck cadet wandered around on the
crew mess during lunch and asked each crew who's interested . I told him I'm
interested to go home early, Now weeks have passed since I said to deck cadet
that I'm interested , and there is still no reply coming from OSM nor any news
coming from the principal "hartree" about any crew change. Perhaps
there will be no reply at all and that "Hartree" (or maybe OSM )
doesn’t have any plan or intention to have a crew change here in
netherlands.
A
week ago and by surprise , OSM management along with the principal
"hartree" made a video conference to the whole crew at the CCR. From
my perception, the video conference was all about the management wanted to know
our opinion regarding about being put up here on this ship on a much longer period , and from
the way on how conversation went out , it looks like that OSM and Hartree did not
have any solid plans yet for a crew change.
Most
of the crew never spoke their opinion about this matter during the video conference and
those who did spoke , was not actually speaking about crew change issue or
crew welfare topic but rather spoke flattery to the company, basically sucking up to the management
.
The
funny part about this video conference was that , Senior ship officers do the
best they can on sucking up - To the point that I get the impression and was astonished that these people are basically "Company
man" to the core. From what I saw with my own eyes I'm disgusted on how Filipino ship
officer's really sucking up to the company, and that they never really
care about the welfare of their fellow Filipino crew or their workers'
rights matter . Anyway it's not surprising ,on
how my fellow Filipino would behave like this infront of the management (and everyone in general ) , After all it’s the FILIPINO way
and that is a fact . having really no shame on having no dignity at all or backbone to stand up with workers rights
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| filipino ship officer would look like this in a comical way |
Filipino
seafarers are efficient workers but the dark side is that they are mentally
unstable , ruthless, coldhearted , and basically a threat to every fellow
filipino around the workplace. Even Filipino Senior ship officers are ruthless
enough to be intolerant of minor faults and imposes severe punishments to their
Filipino subordinate, they are highly power hungry, Selfish , cruel ,
ruthlessly sadistic and hot tempered .
Make no mistake , Filipino Chief mate's and Filipino captains shows
utter ruthlessness and bloodlust just to accomplish their goals and strongly
disapproves failure and disobedience in any form on their subordinates . It
is a Fact that Filipino's are hostile to
their own countrymen Period. A person who betrays his fellow country men cannot be fully trusted at all.
During
the video conference , I choose to remain silent and just listen to what was
going on . I really wanted to speak and ask the management , if they have any
plans at all for a crew change, however i held my tongue and knew better that if ever I spoke at all
about this , It might end up as a "public execution" for me for
questioning the management. Being mindful to what happened to me several years
back in CF Sharp company were I spoke openly against the management ., It would
be rational to just keep my mouth shut on this situation ., Speaking against or questioning the
management in front of the crowd of "Company mans" would be as safe
as being in the front lines of the battle field - A TOTAL KILL ZONE AREA. Based on experience as a sailor , having an
"open conversation / conference" amongst the crew doesn't really end
up good and never works out . If the
company is sincere enough to fix the problem and wants to know the truth about
how people think without any fear of persecution or repression , then they
should ask the crew one by one without any supervision or any one monitoring
the conversation - anything beyond that is PURE BULLSHIT.
