JOURNALS OF A FILIPINO SEAMAN

Been doing a lot of picking up on the things that I left off or left unattended for the past few months, Honestly all the work is pilling up and its not pretty. First of my agenda is to follow up my application form on Career ship management company which has been pending for quite some time now, Well I hope I don’t piss off Mr. Ho for reporting in late since I haven't shown my face for about two weeks now. Anyway that I'd be showing up my face in Career really soon and I had already cleaned up myself and will now wear proper clothing, as a matter of fact I bought a few formal clothes at the local mall just for it. In other news … Some of my comrades in SEACAP shipping have been in touch with me lately via face book. Alvin O. Dico is one of them, apparently from the chat I had with him in FB, It seems that SEACAP shipping have already gone to a few ships and based on what I heard its now down to 11 ships. I learned from Alvin Dico that he and his dad left the company because th...

Almost more than 5 months now, I discovered a company along edsa road. I had no knowledge of this company and that the only thing I knew about this was that it is a call center company. Given with my previous experience in the call center I decided to apply and try my luck. My original mission assuming that  I'm successful getting hired was a simple "Survey and Dig" , on which I could only get past as far as nesting phase then be off again to another place . I would just get the total months salary so I could use it on personal reasons for my sailing job, namely for licensure examination and job related supplies for sailing. Big turning point of my mission which resulted to being "Extended" was when my Trainer / Temporary Trainer Norman Estrada, Defended my stay here and argued to the brass that I'm the agent worth saving . A decision I'm forever in debt of and he has my respects on it. I always distance myself from my co-workers given the fact that my o...

"The true measure of a hero is when a man lays down his life with the knowledge that those he saves... will never know" Looks like that I'm not the only one having an NTE memo , from what I saw it seems that "Renee" and "Rose" also has one and guess who issued them all? Our beloved rat bastard T.L. John Edward Rivero CIM#76689. Anyway it doesn’t surprise me that this was issued given on how treacherous this vicious scumbag  is. I still remember why I hold judgment over him when I first met him in the production floor, because I have seen this a thousand times that a "Person might be friendly and approachable at first , then later turned out to be a monster" . Get my point why I have serious trust issues over him ?!  So happens that my suspicion turned out to be true. I may not be the best operator around like dustin cenina or mark macaspac or even "Renee" , or even a good and by the book telephone operator like "rose" to b...

Much to my bewilderment and surprise I was called in by TL John for "coaching", but unlike any other usual coaching session - this one is different in the sense that I was to wait in the waiting room to speak to the manager and in front of the TL. I had no idea first on what was the reason , but I do know it was something serious as not all "Coaching" sessions are done in private sound proof rooms. This caught my attention given the fact that "Badong" and "Chard" was fired on the job in that very room , in a very similar fashion of being pulled up and fired on the job without even finishing their working schedules. To me this room has a moniker which I call "Firing Squad room" , unfortunately they don’t give out blind folds but termination papers. I was told to wait there and a few minutes came by my thoughts are already playing on what kind of employment termination will be put on me. Will I be terminated for poor performance ? Have I ...