[QUOTE=Tugs;174032]To me this is one of the biggest problems with our industry! Everyone wants to move up as fast as possible. If they run into someone that may just be very happy and also VERY good at their job, they are stupid because they do not want to move up and deal with all of the headaches that come with it.
As far as I am concerned No One should be moved up into a Mate Position until they have a minimum of 5 years on deck![/QUOTE]
Going back to my days with Curtis Bay here in Baltimore, a boat was not handed to you the day after you got your license. During the summer or maybe the Christmas relief season, a deckhand with a license might have gotten a couple of days as mate here or there.
But, smash in a visor or knock in some railings and it was back on deck the next day. Heard it more than once from the captains, who were also the docking pilots, âif you donât know what youâre doing down there, you ainât going to know what youâre doing up hereâ.
By the way, I LOVED working for Curtis Bay.
As far as I am concerned No One should be moved up into a Mate Position until they have a minimum of 5 years on deck![/QUOTE]
If you are talking about tugboats, then I agree with you. Tugs are a whole different animal, especially certain types of tugs. Itâs human nature in general to make assumptions about things that they have effing clue about and no experience in.
Moved to South America and am exporting Cocoa, chocolate to be hahah, long hours, hard work, good pay, great food, so almost like being offshore except I have reagular weekends instead of 28 day weeknds.
[QUOTE=CaptStew;174078]Moved to South America and am exporting Cocoa, chocolate to be hahah, long hours, hard work, good pay, great food, so almost like being offshore except I have reagular weekends instead of 28 day weeknds.[/QUOTE]
Longer than some others who are still employed down there, that is for sure!
I have the perfect solution for companies that have a hard time enforcing their âethicsâ policies within
their ranks. Instead of firing both parties for misconduct, they should fire the higher ranking employee.
If they are the same rank, then both or whoever has been on the vessel or with the company longer. It seems counter intuitive, but that will solve many problems with âethicsâ.
Of course, some places donât care about enforcing their ethics policies, they care more about what someone has sold to them that they âneedâ for their operational requirements:A bunch of dumb fucks who will sabotage the vessel and break shit.
-sorry, not all. The good people out there who know their shit know who they are
Dude, donât you know she is the hottest/best engineer in the World. Her profile even explains why; âOnly non butch female hawsepiper to make it to engineering officer up the commercial side on cargo, oil field service and commercial vessels while still in her 20âs. Now that is pretty remarkable. If you donât think so, then you are probably just jealous.â You & everyone else that questions her on here are just jealous of her achievements, age, beauty, and engineering prowess. Iâm not sure how she surveyed the entire shipping industry to stake her claim as the only one to do what she did, she didnât post any information to back it up. She has sources for all her sexual harassment complaints though.
Iâm hawsepiping the engineering side as well, but i started late because i had a different career for like 12yrs, and Iâm ugly, and Iâm 37yrs old. Nothing to be proud of here. Oh, and most of the guys & girls iâve worked with have been generally nice to me so I canât complain about that either.
[QUOTE=Kingrobby;174117]Dude, donât you know she is the hottest/best engineer in the World. [/QUOTE]
well our very hot and even angrier female engineer used to have a blog where in her righteous indignation she blasted any and all in our industry in a one women tirade against all the unfairness and backstabbing she suffered however I returned to her blog at sailorshe.blogspot.com to read her latest diatribes only to find she has erased all her previous writingsâŚwhy oh why would she have done so? Possibly that she had her own name attached to the blog and that she came to realize the career suicide she was committing? I sure wish she would enlighten us here what prompted her to make such a move or better still that because her name is attached to her profile here that she might realize the damage she is doing to herself even in this forum and to cease fighting her battle of herself against the entire US maritime industry!
I did search far and wide. A few left early on because they got discouraged. Some who worked at more civilized places that are government related jobs got involved in Union pension and time and had no desire to move up (still not the GoM)Some of the stories from Louisiana were the worst, one girl told me about how the company she worked for got bought, they kept cutting her pay (only hers) sequentially and refused to provide her with a sea time letter so that she could get her QMED, when she had been working in the engine department for two years. She now works in retail.
And who said I was beautiful? I have actually gotten kind of fat. I am not even qualified anymore to go back to job opportunities I had before GoM. Probably should have stayed over there!!And as Iâve stated its not really about looks down there.
If other people decide to get their license in the meantime, then good for them and I hope more do.
[I]The bulk of women seafarers are concentrated in the hotel personnel of cruise ships, and these are mostly in rating grades. Only 7 per cent of women seafarers are officers and the rest (93 per cent) are ratings. By comparison, 42 per cent of male seafarers are officers and 58 per cent are ratings.
[/I] http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/features/WCMS_075627/lang--en/index.htm
