Monday, December 14, 2020

Ship Captain Disregards Deck Crew's Advice, Loses Bonus, Gets Chewed Out


Man, nothing can bring the blood to a boil quite like having to take orders from a boss that clearly doesn't know what they're doing. In this case, we have a ship captain who sounds like he'd exhausted all of his ability to care about much of anything on the ship. The guy refused to listen to his deck crew's warnings, and ended up living to regret that like none other. Poor guy missed out on a bonus that he'd easily have been rewarded if he'd just slowed down and been a little more openminded. 

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Text - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/VirtualToddler • 2d 2 e1 3 5 Captain said get all the rust, now the tank has a hole. M On mobile TL/DR at end. A little background first. Before I came to my senses and changed course, I worked as a sailor on a petroleum carrier. One of the many duties a sailor has is keeping the vessel from turning into a large iron ore deposit on the sea floor. To do this, there is a tool called a needle scaler. It's a pneumatic device that consists of a a bunch of 7-12 in

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Text - I worked with a dude, let's call him Joe, that probably ran out of fucks somewhere in the 1970's. He complained constantly and was a real pleasure to work with pain in the ass. The captain we had at the time was also a pleasure to work with pain in the ass who you never wanted to catch you slacking off, as the ass chewing he delivered would make a Marine blush. So we busted ass when he was onboard or he'd make our lives hell. We had hydraulic mooring winches that were welded to the deck p

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Text - The MC. He ordered me and Joe to chip away the rust and then prime and paint at the base of the winches. Joe said the rust is really thick and likely he'd end up breaching the tank. He also pointed out that in two months we'd be in shipyard for a refit and it wouldn't matter if we busted through into the tanks there, so the job should probably wait. So Capt Asshat started cussing us both out, me because I backed up Joe as I felt he had an excellent point and Joe because he's been out of f

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Text - I took the aft most (rearward for you land lubbers) winch while Joe went at the worse one in the middle. He went to town and after only 45 minutes he comes to get me. He'd punched 7 large and 4 small holes into the #4 and #5 cargo tanks (the winch straddled them). Good news was we're were empty and had last carried asphalt, so not much in the way of hazardous gasses. Bad news was we were due to load in 14 hours all the tanks to their max with No. 6 oil, which doesn't like sea water and ha

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Text - All in all, it cost the company about $130000 in lost time and repair charges. They had to pay for another company to take the load, which I don't know the cost of, but my vessels daily rate for the entire shebang was $30k so it was probably around that. Turns out that the company was going to cut the winches off in the next shipyard and replace them with electric models, which would have involved removing the deck plating and adding reinforcement for the heavier units. Captain Asshat kne

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