We have been getting treated like crap for a while, our last pay deal was shocking 2.6% last year and 2.5% this year. I was up at college there doing my Mates/Masters there before Christmas and was called back early because of staffing difficulties so didnt get to finnish my course. I asked HR in December if I would be able to go back to college for 5 weeks starting 21st April and it took them over 6 weeks to ask the Marine super if I could go, and he said no!
When I got to the ship, I found out I was brought back so another guy gould go off and start the same course as they pulled me off, I thought I was joining as 1/o/s (next rank up from where I was) as there was nobody else in the agency with the same experience as me as I have had 4 yrs in and sailed as 1/o/s a few times before but it turned out that they had tranfered a 2/o from the Jura who has only been in the agency since April last year, only just got his BFSO warrant and had never sailed as 1/o/s before.
Anyways last trip I had to go away boarding in my own time to show this guy how to measure a net (bearing in mind that he is now sailing in a higher rank than me and getting paid more!). On top of that we got a new Captain join the vessel after the previous one resigned to go get more time off and more money, anyways the new Captain is an a***hole and was picking holes in everything you did so I resigned. I was just tired of being treated like crap
Graeme