some of these posts are dead on! I just finished MSC paid for training at MAMA in va bitch, so im actually pretty happy to have made it through my year probation. of course I still have to deal with medical, the coast guard, and the batshit crazy security department, so who knows what will happen. but i will have my ab and stcw.
msc isent hiring any os’s any time soon, even though they have about 50 empty os’s billets at any one time. i just got a east-to-west transfer and it only took me 4 months to get it.
im not expecting to stay with msc long, maybe long enough for the economy to pick up and for me to go commerical, or for me to get my tankerman-pic… msc’s leave program sucks, too many power trippers, and the os pay (on the east coast) is for the homeless and the socially challanged.
i just spent my last week on the usns kanawa, cleaning tanks, and what was my paycheck? 926.00 …talk about CMPI violations? man i need one hell of a pay dispute with my detailer and a call to the union.
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