[QUOTE=follow40;175621]All men are created equal, but some are more equal than others.[/QUOTE]“All men are created equal, especially black men because we are ashamed of our past. Also, other groups don’t matter because they are not backed by scary organizations like the NAACP that will jump all over us at the slightest mishap”.
[QUOTE=Quimby;175583]On my boat the wheelhouse is all caucasian. There is one African American Master in the company.[/QUOTE]
I mean, that’s nice. Just saying…that still doesn’t sound very diverse, just tipping the iceberg diverse ya know? Not that I personally care, blacks and hispanics are not any less likely to be chauvinist than whites, but if I am going to talk about diversity, it is only fair that I include everybody.
[QUOTE=Sand_Pebble;175628]I don’t know about now a days but from the mid 90’s to the mid 2000’s, being on a TDW boat in the GoM was similar to being in one of those reality TV shows where they get a dozen people from all different backgrounds with absolutely nothing in common [/QUOTE]
I beg to differ. I sailed with someone who worked in the GoM in the ‘90s and they said it was the most racist, sexist backwards, exclusionary place they had ever worked at. Maybe Tidewater was an exception, or maybe that person and I worked at the same company that never really changed. It is true, I didn’t work that many places down there so maybe it was just that one place…[QUOTE=Sand_Pebble;175628]
consisting of an obese, lethargic female Cajun captain[/QUOTE]
I am still waiting to hear about a female engineer hawsepiper…
[QUOTE=Quimby;175594]We had a couple female deck hands and one Academy mate. [I]They either quit or were let go in the layoffs[/I].[/QUOTE]
Ok soo…yea still sounds a little to me like the layoffs were used as a nice purge, if the only women that you can mention not working in the capacity of “cook”…are no longer there.
I wonder if when one of those companies down there cut down the majority of AB’s down to deckhand pay and let two AB’s per vessel have AB pay… I wonder how that was decided upon? Who would get the higher pay? And I wonder how many female AB’s got the senior AB pay, or if ALL of them got cut down to deckhand pay, or if there was even one in the whole company that got the lead AB pay?
And I also wonder how many career AB’s who had been AB’s for 10 or 20 years got cut down to deckhand pay while others who had only been AB’s for 6 months got lead AB pay?
I do recognize that the GoM has made an effort to be conscientious about racism, but they forgot about all the other -isms. Chauvinism (the original meaning), nepotism, favoritism and [I]sexism[/I]. None of them are ok!
The GoM is a big place of -ISMS!!!
I have worked at quite a few places. The most diverse, friendly and professionally operated have been government and research affiliated. I would give those sectors an A.
I would say the GoM would get a big fat F!!!.