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Had a bad day at work yesterday and it's still pissing me off today (see my post in Cursing Out Coworkers). Thought I'd post this quick story from years ago on the cruise ships.
One evening we were all meeting in the crew bar between shows (usually 1.5 hours between them) for one drink. It was a formal night, so while we were all wearing nametags, we were dressed like other pax were – guys in tuxes or suits, gals in formal ballgowns. We had just come from the buffet and the quickest way to the bar was to take this one long passenger hallway. At the end is a door that says “Crew Members Only” and it leads to the hallway closest to the crew bar.
There were 3 of us chatting as we went, and a door opened and 2 passengers came out – probably in their mid to late 20’s. We said good evening to them as we passed and then went through the doors. Down the hallway to the bar where we each grabbed a drink and sat down with the rest of our crewmates. About a minute later, the room goes silent. We turned to see what it was, and it was the 2 passengers…they had apparently followed us down the hallway thinking we were passengers and assumed since we went through the doors, they could too. When they were asked to leave, they were pissed!!! They wanted to hang out. To be fair, the crew bar was pretty cool – darts, TV’s with movies showing, cheap drinks (.75 each instead of the 3.50 for passengers), foosball tables and more.
They apparently complained to the purser’s desk that crew were drinking and having fun when they should be working! Shocking. Sorry ladies, you can’t put over 1000 20-somethings on a ship for 6 months at a time and not expect them to have some fun. Drinking is allowed as long as you remain functional enough to perform your emergency duties if needed.
One evening we were all meeting in the crew bar between shows (usually 1.5 hours between them) for one drink. It was a formal night, so while we were all wearing nametags, we were dressed like other pax were – guys in tuxes or suits, gals in formal ballgowns. We had just come from the buffet and the quickest way to the bar was to take this one long passenger hallway. At the end is a door that says “Crew Members Only” and it leads to the hallway closest to the crew bar.
There were 3 of us chatting as we went, and a door opened and 2 passengers came out – probably in their mid to late 20’s. We said good evening to them as we passed and then went through the doors. Down the hallway to the bar where we each grabbed a drink and sat down with the rest of our crewmates. About a minute later, the room goes silent. We turned to see what it was, and it was the 2 passengers…they had apparently followed us down the hallway thinking we were passengers and assumed since we went through the doors, they could too. When they were asked to leave, they were pissed!!! They wanted to hang out. To be fair, the crew bar was pretty cool – darts, TV’s with movies showing, cheap drinks (.75 each instead of the 3.50 for passengers), foosball tables and more.
They apparently complained to the purser’s desk that crew were drinking and having fun when they should be working! Shocking. Sorry ladies, you can’t put over 1000 20-somethings on a ship for 6 months at a time and not expect them to have some fun. Drinking is allowed as long as you remain functional enough to perform your emergency duties if needed.
Scandalous! That should never happen! They didn't pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for tickets in order to have fun, so it should be denied to them!
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