[I][QUOTE=Capt. Lee;101037]"That is funny you would mention that. I had heard that many letters of experience were falsified in order to comply with contractual experience in position requirements. It is something that we refused to do. What we ended up doing was using a third party assessor to assess all contractual positions. They must have worked all that out though, because the people that I know over there are experienced professionals.
Having a person on the crew that is not cutting the mustard is frustrating and will only be tolerated for so long before enough is enough. Like you said, you may like these guys as people, but certain positions are more critical than others. It is a fine line, because we spend over half our lives with these men and women. It is only human to have personal feelings for these guys. Sometimes to the point of family. I can tell you that 99% of the people I work with I would invite them into my home around my family. It can make a tough decision even tougher sometimes. I have genuinely liked someone that was just terrible at his job. We often have very little control over who is sent to fill a position and most of the time you have to make do with what you have. Having the developmental skills to motivate people to achieve things that themselves or others may not think possible. That is key. What you can achieve as a team is much more than any individual can on his own. With support, training and leadership everything is possible. I have taken someone that I was told just could not do a particular task and in the end they were masters at it. I wish someone would do that to me. I have a hard time accepting that an individual is not capable of something."QUOTE][/I]
And where this comes into play is typically during the ship building phase. Most of us who have been there know that during this time you get really close with the entire crew. However, you really don’t know how the people can perform at their job. This would probably be the negative about shipyard and the hard part once operations begin. You want so bad all of the guys you were with in shipyard succeed and do well, but sometimes that just doesn’t happen, and its hard to make the decision once something happens or appraisal period comes to let the person go or have to write them up for some failure or incompetency’s.