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Izalude
06-19-2007, 04:17 PM
I had a rough night last night...

I had a ship to board at 8:30 PM. No problem... I get to the ship take care of the paperwork, then go to the Customs office to Enter and Clear the vessel.

At customs, I learn that the Filipino guy that I'd sent to the doctor from the other ship I was responsible for, early that morning has a brain tumor and needs to go home immediately.

So, I had to drive to the other ship, pick the poor guy up, and bring him to Immigration. So, he got paroled, confirmed flight details, and I got him back to the ship. By now it was about 12:15. Poor guy was absolutely devistated... I gave him my cell phone to call home to tell his family. He couldn't even tell them over the phone, and he was crying most of the way there and back... I felt so bad, but tried to reassure him that it was treatable... I had a similar problem around this time last year.

That ship finished at like 1:15 this morning, so I stayed on board. Got all the documents by about 3am... As I'm going down the gangway, a crew member drops the guy's suitcase, and it creams me as I'm going down the gangway... The suitcase proceeds to tumble down the gangway and into the water. The poor guy, who just learned that he's got a brain tumor now has his suitcase floating in New York Harbor... We use a grappling hook to pull it out, and he's sent off to the hotel so he can rest.

So I finally got to my office like 3:30... sent out the vessel's movements, and got home like 4:15ish. I go to sleep around 4:30... then I start getting phone calls at around 6:30. By 8:30 I want to drown my phone because I haven't really slept. Then I call my office to relay a message to my coworkers to take care of some things with that other ship I boarded.

Generally, company policy is if you're out past 12am for a ship, you can come in a few hours late. Well, the underboss (read: lowest level manager) thinks he's the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler when it comes to the office. He seems to think that he's entitled to all the benefits becuase he's been doing this job for 20 years, but thinks because we've all been doing this for five years and less, the policy doesn't apply to us.

Also, he refuses to do things that many of our clients require. For example, Conoco Phillips requires us to fill out their website for them while the ship is in port. Heidenreich Marine is another company that requires it. He refuses to do it, and passes it to one of us to do it for him. Also, I've heard him actually hang up on clients when he's on the phone with them because he didn't want to listen to them arguing with him!

So I get an irate call from him at 9am yelling at me saying that I have to take care of everything, set the ship up to leave from the dock, etc. Generally speaking, this is usually an hour's worth of phone calls. So I call the überboss in the office (who mind you, is the best boss I've ever had), he tells me "We'll take care of it. Go back to sleep." So I try... but now, I'm so pissed off, that I couldn't roll over and go back to sleep. So I got dressed and came to work.

I'm only running on about 2 hours sleep. So yeah... I'm SHOT.

Sean of the Thread
06-19-2007, 04:25 PM
They have MRI machines on cruise ships?

Stanley Burrell
06-19-2007, 04:29 PM
My life in its entirety was teetering on the edge of a promising future versus life sucks for an eternity simply because of a color printer's inability to not make me stab it with a butcher's cleaver.

However, I am glad to say that driving 100 mph on Dixwell does, in fact, work quite well. I did kinda feel like the typical-midaged-female-BMW hand-me-down-driving-17-to-80-year-old-from-either-Guilford-Orange-or-Connecticut, though (which has its obvious self-destitual properties as is [minus the driving at 100mph part.])

Hope you feel better. I didn't even really go over much of your post because of how fucking hectic my day has been. So I can bluff by saying that "I feel your pain" like everyone else does -- And try and share sympathy through personal experience: But honestly, all I'm really doing is being a sublime jackass.

Sorry.

And the cruise ship was importing electromagnetic resonance mad l33t equipz0rz. Can I coin equipz0rz?

Izalude
06-19-2007, 04:31 PM
It's not a cruise ship... It was an oil tanker. I had him taken off the ship to go and see the doctor. The captain requested earlier that morning that I arrange a doctor's appointment because the guy had been complaining of headaches and blurred vision for the past week.

Sean of the Thread
06-19-2007, 04:38 PM
Ah cool. I read it as you wrote it.. "I sent to the doctor on my other ship".

Brain tumors suck.

Sean
06-19-2007, 04:43 PM
Moral of the story... inspecting oil tankers gives you brain tumors.

Gan
06-19-2007, 06:15 PM
ITS NOT A TUMOR!!!!!

(Glad the suitcase didnt give you a neck crit or anything)

:)

Sean of the Thread
06-19-2007, 06:57 PM
My life in its entirety was teetering on the edge of a promising future versus life sucks for an eternity simply because of a color printer's inability to not make me stab it with a butcher's cleaver.

However, I am glad to say that driving 100 mph on Dixwell does, in fact, work quite well. I did kinda feel like the typical-midaged-female-BMW hand-me-down-driving-17-to-80-year-old-from-either-Guilford-Orange-or-Connecticut, though (which has its obvious self-destitual properties as is [minus the driving at 100mph part.])

Hope you feel better. I didn't even really go over much of your post because of how fucking hectic my day has been. So I can bluff by saying that "I feel your pain" like everyone else does -- And try and share sympathy through personal experience: But honestly, all I'm really doing is being a sublime jackass.

Sorry.

And the cruise ship was importing electromagnetic resonance mad l33t equipz0rz. Can I coin equipz0rz?

Once again
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/Japgross/c40747-14.jpg

Izalude
06-19-2007, 07:28 PM
(Glad the suitcase didnt give you a neck crit or anything)


Baseball-sized raspberry under my right arm.

TheEschaton
06-19-2007, 08:33 PM
Ha, Izalude probably knows some of the companies I'm investigating, if he's a ship inspector for oil tankers.

-TheE-

Izalude
06-19-2007, 08:57 PM
I'm not an inspector. I'm a boarding agent. You have me intrigued now... I could probably name two ship owner's and one ship charterer off the top of my head who are banditos. PM me the names.

TheEschaton
06-19-2007, 08:59 PM
I'm investigating oil traders, not necessarily the ship owners. Maybe a few shipping companies, but probably not. ;)

-TheE-

Stanley Burrell
06-19-2007, 09:09 PM
Once again
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/Japgross/c40747-14.jpg

Look man, I know you guys have a big ol' geriatric population behind the wheel, but come one, come all, to this F1 obstacle course and be astounded as shit. Aforementioned local people, sadly inside of automobiles, make me feel like I'm fucking hallucinating from somehow unknowingly breaking my sobriety.

Also, for the love of God please tell me that's not your photo album you linked from :no:

Izalude
10-23-2007, 07:06 PM
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6739/adolfcappolilm3.jpg

This is my asshole of a boss I don't get along with.

Anebriated
10-23-2007, 09:41 PM
heh, theE and Iza need to hook me up with some names as well. I used to do environmental work in the NY area directly related to oil companies.

Izalude
10-24-2007, 08:28 PM
In My experience, this is my list....

From Worst to Best when it comes to Pollution & Safety:

Traffigura
GE Warren Corp.
Cargill
Morgan Stanley
Chemoil
Valero
Lukoil
Exxon-Mobile
Petrobras
Shell
Glencore / ST Shipping
C.S.S.A. (TOTAL)
Semeuro
Koch Petroleum
Vitol S.A. Inc.
Conoco Phillips

TheEschaton
10-24-2007, 09:02 PM
I have no comment. ;)

-TheE-

Keller
10-25-2007, 09:55 AM
And here I thought this thread was going to be about airport escort services.

Anebriated
10-25-2007, 11:03 AM
I've worked as an environmental consultant with 4 of the companies you listed.

TheEschaton
10-25-2007, 11:09 AM
And I may or may not have investigated five of them this past summer. ;)

-TheE-