Brilliant Lady Crew Member Fired Over Unfair Job Assignment

[Amerigo]

Company

Virgin Voyages

Ship

Brilliant Lady

Hello amigos, I have bad news from Brilliant Lady, as usual, they fired someone today, Filipino crew member from the engine department, for an unfair reason, to which I will proceed to explain to you...



Turns out, that he got a job as a pool technician, which he was unprepared to carry the duty, but still they bound him to do it, knowing that he was unfit for that kind of job, so he made a mistake with the charts very often, and today they fired him, without any mercy.

I feel emphaty with him, please if you can help us to post this on your Facebook, will help us a lot. And tomorrow we'll have a meeting with the chief engineer, because he wants to assign another repairman to fulfill the job, personally I will refuse, so do others colleagues as well. But I need advice from you, if there is someone to I can contact to help me in case they are threatening me with sending me home if I refuse the assignment, I'm a fitter welder not a pool technician. Thank you so much for your time, and if you post this message,

 

[SailorD]

I have a friend used to work in VV as well, he get in to accident and get discharge from the vessel to take medical leave, after doing medical at home and with doctors approval that he is fit to work, the company decided not to rehire him anymore, it was quite a sad things that he get medical leave because of working and after doing medical at home wishing to get back to work he get disappointment instead.

 

[Xoxo0611]

I thought virgin voyages is different form other fleets.. Better apply to
Another ship.. rather than suffer.

 

[#SHIPLIFE]

The company started with great promises but unfortunately is slowly declining. Also to say, most crew members wait not weeks but months for an assignment with VV, which is sad to say that this person in specific might have been one of them.

 

[Fjorgyn]

If you apply for a job, you are saying you are prepared and qualified to do the duties. The company is counting that you were truthful in your application. Be very careful who you try to defend as you probably don’t know the entire story. Far too often crew members pay the agencies black money to get a job or they falsify their certificates, and this is EXTREMELY common in the Philippines, India and Indonesia. Heck, just look at the news in Canada or the US, they’ve caught thousands of truck drivers with fake documents, foreign students with fake certificates etc. This is a huge issue world wide! I have personally dealt with first hand easily over 100 of these cases. Even Marlins English tests get falsified, but you can’t fake that one once on board, you either can or can’t speak English. Do you expect us to keep a crew member who can’t understand their safety duties, who lied to the company? Or for a pool supervisor who is responsible for the chlorination of the pool, it’s okay to accept that he lied and he accidentally over chlorinated the pool and put thousands of people at risk, including children and babies? Not to mention the lawsuits that will come from that!!!

Companies don’t dismiss without cause. The crew member has the right to grieve their dismissal. But just from what you stated in your comment, it sounds like the company definitely had grounds.

It’s great that you are looking out for your friend, but I’d make sure you know the entire story first before you try to rally the troops against the company. Refusal of duty is an automatic dismissal on all major cruise lines.

 

[Roberto]

I don't try to back up nobody, I've just said that the company hasn't the rights to dismissed someone out of the blue, namely because they breached the contract. That guy was a welder, and they sent him to do a job as a pool technician. Last time I've heard that he will sue the company. And I hope he would get his job back...