RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE !!!
MY POINT WAS USE THE FRIGGIN SEARCH OPTION!!! HE KNEW HE WAS GRADUATING FOR SOME TIME NOW WAS A DAMN JOB SUPPOSED TO FALL IN HIS LAP!!! HE HAS BEEN GOING TO SCHOOL FOR THIS STUFF FOR FOUR YEARS NOW!!! THERE ARE A THOUSAND THREADS ON HERE ABOUT GETTING JOBS ON EVERY DAMN THING FROM DRILLSHIPS TO MUDBOATS!!!
Sorry guys I’m backing away from the keyboard slowly didn’t mean to jump on the poor kid.
Most of all the unions show up to all of the career fairs…
[QUOTE=KPEngineer;72176]They could benefit themselves by spending some time here. Watching c.captain have his way with them sure would be entertaining for the rest of us.[/QUOTE]
They could benefit with a clop upside the head with my pointy stick!
I often wondered what it would be like at a maritime academie like KP’ty if there was some real mariners on the faculty kicking the little punks in the ass all the time and going through then like “shit through a Goose”!* I’d be merciless with 'em and leave the little darlins with piss soaked drawers mewling for their momma’s boobies!
Cruises would be like on the old TEXAS CLIPPER with lots of drinking and carousing in port and recovering onboard afterwards. Those that survived would be seamen! The rest could become accountants.
[QUOTE=c.captain;72184]Cruises would be like on the old TEXAS CLIPPER with lots of drinking and carousing in port and recovering onboard afterwards. Those that survived would be seamen! The rest could become accountants.
Or join the Coast Guard… sorry could not resist…my shellback is showing
The reason, c.captain that I am such an infrequent intruder into your little realm over here is that the entertainment that I get from pushing your buttons is just not really that satisfying, nor indeed much of a challenge. You fall back on your copy and paste pictures and come back with really weak rebuttles. I was hoping that you stepped up your game, but obviously that’s not the case. I need an opponent that actually fights back. Try harder. Read a little more for sure. Travel perhaps might broaden your perspective a bit. I’m keeping my eye on you and I am hoping that you develop some fighting skill. You have the anger and rage, you just don’t have the quickness, nor sadly the vocabulary to make this interesting. And please, just for old times sake don’t do your normal response to this and say something about my being from Louisiana, swampy, sad little man, etc. Say something original please. And no pictures…of clowns, diabetic testing strip ads or anything else. Just words, mean as you want but try to sound intelligent. Can you do that for me old buddy?
That’s why I chose KP over the other schools. The chance to be a cadet on a real ship instead of going on a “cruise” with a couple hundred other cadets. It takes a real ship with a real crew to turn a sniveling cadet into a seamen.
[QUOTE=KPEngineer;72198]That’s why I chose KP over the other schools. The chance to be a cadet on a real ship instead of going on a “cruise” with a couple hundred other cadets. It takes a real ship with a real crew to turn a sniveling cadet into a seamen.[/QUOTE]
I couldn’t agree with you more. As I have stated previously in other threads, any training is what you make of it. I have always felt that my time at sea as a cadet was the best learning experience of the program. As a cadet, I sailed with a couple of Chiefs (and Firsts, too) that were just what c.captain said he would be. That said, I had no problem bilge crawling, evaporator cleaning, boiler tube scraping, valve lapping, purifier cleaning and all of the other little fun things that go on down in the dark spaces. All of the “hard case” engineers that I sailed with treated me quite differently after a couple of weeks. I also think that I would have aced the carousing module of the Sea Project had there been one. I certainly worked pretty hard at it.
If anything, I have always felt that state academies lost the real sea going experience by having a school ship. Even the vaunted (and now in a place it should have been decades ago) TEXAS CLIPPER.
I know that when I got out of school, I certainly new where the options were. I chose the MEBA hall at first and it took about a month before I signed onto the SEALAND MCLEAN. I was lucky to get it, too.
I engage my opponent at their own intellectual level which in your case is strikingly low. You might recall this level was established very early here with:
and you are still a little bitch without peer.
that my friend “from the ooze” are your own words and in all honestly, I cannot believe one could ever have an intelligent debate with a most esteemed person such as yourself? About what exactly? The social economic benefits of being a functionally illiterate, obese, chain smoking, wife beater?
btw…look at the picture again but closely this time kid. It’s a bug son…a little tiny bug on a man’s finger…so tiny it can be squished just like that!
Hey everbody…will ya get a load of this maroon!
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I think that Both academy systems (federal and state) let sub par cadets fall through the cracks… Ive sailed with Slow Bells from each. You get out of it what you put into it… I sailed on my breaks to get my PIC. I knew that I wanted to work on tankers. I realized that DP was where it’s at so I worked on getting into DP and the rest is history
[QUOTE=rshrew;72183]Most of all the unions show up to all of the career fairs…[/QUOTE]
Exactly
At Great Lakes we have had AMO, MM&P, and MEBA come this past year a long with a lot of companies. Everytime a Union or a Company comes to the school to visit I make sure to go even if I have seen them twice before as things are changing constantly. This year I spent two hours on my own time before the AMO presentation talking to Captain Jose Leonard ,Treasurer of the AMO about his career sailing with Seabulk and then I picked his brain about AMO and DP and their intentions and also about the LNG contracts they have. They even showed us the AMO online jobs board with a couple 3rd Mate jobs on the Liberty vessels.
I’ve been on Gcaptain since before I pulled the trigger on going to the Academy. I have spent probably well over 100 hours using the search engine on here reading everything I can about every company and all the different jobs that are out there. When I graduate in a year and a half I won’t be posting some thread like this because I have the knowledge of what is going on and will go out and get a job on my own.
There is no such thing as magic. You still have to put in the effort to really learn the craft no matter what kind of ship you are on. No question, I had some classmates with no desire to sail and only saw sea year in terms of the sea project. I recall one 1st saying to me that it was nice to see me out of my room, they had to pry the last guy out.
[QUOTE=KPEngineer;72210]There is no such thing as magic. You still have to put in the effort to really learn the craft no matter what kind of ship you are on. No question, I had some classmates with no desire to sail and only saw sea year in terms of the sea project. I recall one 1st saying to me that it was nice to see me out of my room, they had to pry the last guy out.[/QUOTE]
Sea Project? Oh. We were supposed to do some cipherin’? During my year, my sea project had a pretty low priority. Learning how to be and engineer and a shipmate was number one on my list. Often the two are at odds.
Yep, exactly why is was such a scramble to get something put together before heading back to school.
what did he say their DP intentions are? Personally I think they are going to have a difficult time as the vast majority of jobs are in the oilfield and union is the dirtiest of all foul language here…sorry to derail but just curious
[QUOTE=GLMASailor;72207]This year I spent two hours on my own time before the AMO presentation talking to Captain Jose Leonard ,Treasurer of the AMO about his career sailing with Seabulk and then I picked his brain about AMO and DP and their intentions and also about the LNG contracts they have. They even showed us the AMO online jobs board with a couple 3rd Mate jobs on the Liberty vessels.[/QUOTE]
JOSE LEONARD IS A FUCKING SLITHERING SNAKE! He is as dirty as they come in the AMO and like all there is little more than a paid liar! The contract AMO has with Liberty Maritime was STOLEN from MEBA! Do some research on that one and you’ll see! FUCK THE AMO!
C.Capt:
Tell us how you really feel. Don’t hide anything. I am not sure we understand your position on AMO. Could you be a little more specific?
HA HA.
[QUOTE=cmakin;72212]During my year, my sea project had a pretty low priority. Learning how to be and engineer and a shipmate was number one on my list. Often the two are at odds.[/QUOTE]
I never understood why these two goals are at odds. But your post does bring up the ‘deck-engine room’ friction. (as silly as it is!)
He means learning to be an engineer and a shipmate vs. completing the sea project. Some parts of the projects can be little more than busy work and a cadets time is much better spent working in the engine room and interacting with the crew than writing a report.
[QUOTE=c.captain;72222]JOSE LEONARD IS A FUCKING SLITHERING SNAKE! He is as dirty as they come in the AMO and like all there is little more than a paid liar! The contract AMO has with Liberty Maritime was STOLEN from MEBA! Do some research on that one and you’ll see! FUCK THE AMO![/QUOTE]
AMO is a scab organization. They are not a union but an employers agency masquerading as a union in order to collect dues and enrich the leadership all with the collusion of the shipping companies leadership with whom they share the spoils. In order to come into existence AMO stole members from the oldest union in the USA, MEBA, with BS promises that were never delivered upon. AMO should not be allowed to call itself a union because they represent everything BUT their dues paying members.
I am with c.captain on this. FTAMO; may their leaders and the company owners that support them die slow painful deaths.
[QUOTE=tengineer;72229]In order to come into existence AMO stole members from the oldest union in the USA, MEBA, with BS promises that were never delivered upon. AMO should not be allowed to call itself a union because they represent everything BUT their dues paying members.[/QUOTE]
Wasn’t it wonderful when the AMO was decertified by the AFL-CIO but I was sickened with Il Capo Micheal Sacco tuned the AMO into his licensed division of the SIU! Fuck I thought it was bad when the McKay’s ran the AMO as a private feifdom. Now those look like the glory days in hindsight! FUCK EVERYONE AT THAT MAFIOSI RUN CABAL THAT IS DISGUISED AS A LABOR UNION!
Sadly, you can blame the fuckers at the top of this shit pile but equally you have to blame the stupid membership for allowing this criminal enterprise to have continued now for more than three decades. The stink of the AMO is permanent…it will never ever be a real maritime labor union much to the detriment of all US mariners because they alone drive DOWN wages for all of us.