Ok, so I am on the fillipino chief mates watch and last week the ships clock retarded one hour in increments in the evening. Asking an AB what time to go to the morning watch I got told to 'wait for a wake up call', I am pretty sure this call never came and that I didn't sleep through it. However, I got a call later which I assumed was my wake up call and I got up and ready, 5 minutes later the lookout knocks on my door and says I'm late (to which I probably looked bemused). So I proceeded to go to the bridge.
With me changing duty that week and it being the first time I had been on duty when the clocks retarded and not, in my view, getting a wake up call I thought the chief mate would understand. However, he went on a shouting session at me accusing me of having 'a bad attitude', asking me 'did I think this was a holiday?' and saying he was going to wake the captain etc. When a ship then appeared on the radar he was stood infront of far into the distance, eventually appearing on the horizon he berated me for not spotting it before him (I was stood forward of the radar acting as a lookout) and told me to go down back to my cabin. I cannot say how angry I was at this treatment and I had to hold my tongue tightly. I understand we are cadets and are often viewed of as the lowest rank on the ship but is this treatment fair? What would you do in this situation? I'm still annoyed about it this week.
With me changing duty that week and it being the first time I had been on duty when the clocks retarded and not, in my view, getting a wake up call I thought the chief mate would understand. However, he went on a shouting session at me accusing me of having 'a bad attitude', asking me 'did I think this was a holiday?' and saying he was going to wake the captain etc. When a ship then appeared on the radar he was stood infront of far into the distance, eventually appearing on the horizon he berated me for not spotting it before him (I was stood forward of the radar acting as a lookout) and told me to go down back to my cabin. I cannot say how angry I was at this treatment and I had to hold my tongue tightly. I understand we are cadets and are often viewed of as the lowest rank on the ship but is this treatment fair? What would you do in this situation? I'm still annoyed about it this week.
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