I am mad. I am steaming mad. I am boiling mad. I am mad that I am here where I have no control over what happens to me. I just found out that they are changing our room. Our current location is bad enough, but this is going to be almost as bad as NMP. The room isn’t even on the map. We are moving to a staff room, barren and with a tiny porthole, in the bow of the ship. Where there is the worst ride. You can feel every little movement. I feel like a second class citizen. I AM MAD.
And there is nothing we can do about it.
I suppose we were lucky to get a passenger room for the first segment, but it is almost worse when you expect the worst and get something nice and then have the nice taken away and you are given the worst. Oh sorry, chump, our error. I AM MAD.
And there is nothing we can do about it.
I suppose we were lucky to get a passenger room for the first segment, but it is almost worse when you expect the worst and get something nice and then have the nice taken away and you are given the worst. Oh sorry, chump, our error. I AM MAD.
Note that I had to put my stuff in the bar!!
The red arrow marks our room.
We work hard at what we do. I am even so nice I give free knitting and iPad lessons to the passengers. I am not going to be nice any more. What does it get you? No respect. We didn’t pay the ship fare, but we did have to pay a lot of money for airfare and other expenses for the privilege to work on this ship.
To add insult to injury, we will probably miss a great deal of seeing Buenos Aires because the move will occur on the day we dock there and we will not be able to get into the new room until late morning. I am not going to have staff move my stuff without me to monitor it, so now I am being doubly punished. I AM MAD
My feelings are hurt. Do they think so little of us that they can just assume we are like a piece of furniture to be moved at will? Yeah, I get it; paying passengers come first. But in essence we are paying passengers, just paying in a different way. We are working for our passage and there is value in that. We don’t ask for anything, we work for what we have. The passengers have liked the service we have provided. Doesn’t that count for anything? I AM MAD
I wish we weren’t doing the return segment. There is nothing worth seeing again. These ports were …. Boring. The people are boring. The ship is boring. I don’t like the dining options, the shows start too late and the food is so so. The weather has been less than pleasant. I have played bridge every single day, twice a day. I hate the chairs. I am not happy. It’s a nice ship, the passenger complement is nice. Our staff support is non-intrusive. The water has been good. But…… I am not enjoying this trip and I wish I could go home NOW.
My room is my sanctuary to get away and refocus and chill. I can’t do that in a room that I do not want to be in.
To add insult to injury, we will probably miss a great deal of seeing Buenos Aires because the move will occur on the day we dock there and we will not be able to get into the new room until late morning. I am not going to have staff move my stuff without me to monitor it, so now I am being doubly punished. I AM MAD
My feelings are hurt. Do they think so little of us that they can just assume we are like a piece of furniture to be moved at will? Yeah, I get it; paying passengers come first. But in essence we are paying passengers, just paying in a different way. We are working for our passage and there is value in that. We don’t ask for anything, we work for what we have. The passengers have liked the service we have provided. Doesn’t that count for anything? I AM MAD
I wish we weren’t doing the return segment. There is nothing worth seeing again. These ports were …. Boring. The people are boring. The ship is boring. I don’t like the dining options, the shows start too late and the food is so so. The weather has been less than pleasant. I have played bridge every single day, twice a day. I hate the chairs. I am not happy. It’s a nice ship, the passenger complement is nice. Our staff support is non-intrusive. The water has been good. But…… I am not enjoying this trip and I wish I could go home NOW.
My room is my sanctuary to get away and refocus and chill. I can’t do that in a room that I do not want to be in.
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