Murphy give me a break!

[oldmanonthesea]

No I don't mean an arm, a leg or any other body part for that matter!  I was actually looking forward to this Leadership Program in London this week, but that was before I started feeling like I did when the 24 hour bug knocked me down on the boat last trip. Yesterday, while I was doing some of the stuff to get ready for the trip, I started feeling

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[msunshine]

So sorry you are sick ... and am annoyed on your behalf that your "time off" is inhabited by leadership conferences, in London or not. They should schedule that stuff during your work times, don't ya think?

Take care.

[oldmanonthesea]

As Skye mentioned, being sick while travelling does indeed inhale greatly! I still feel less than chipper, but am starting to almost feel human again (though only just).

It is rather annoying that the "boat trash" have to use their break time for courses, but at least they pay us for giving up our time at home. It is only half a day rate from offshore work, but even so, it is a small compensation for it. I am pretty sure that the corporate reasoning is that during our scheduled work time they want us to make the company the big bucks so we have to use break time to get better at our jobs. The "office dweebs" definitely have an advantage here, in that they get to use "work time" for courses and get paid their regular salary. My arrogant side says that perhaps that is because they are not as valuable to the company when they are supposedly working. *grin*

[msunshine]

Glad to hear you are feeling human, even if you are just starting to recover. One of my little'uns in just miserable today and thus making everyone else pretty darn miserable as well.

"Boat trash" ... interesting terminology. Do you call yourselves that or do the "office dweebs" call you that?

Having been of the "office dweeb" persuasion, I can agree that most of us are not nearly as valuable as we think we are!

[oldmanonthesea]

Both of the terms boat trash and office dweeb originated with office personnel sort of. The woman who introduced me to the term office dweeb was actually the woman who hired me for the company. She had worked on the boats but when I joined the company almost 10 years ago had been made crewing manager for North and South America.
The term boat trash was from a VP who had been irritated by a boat worker and some of us decided that it was a good way to turn the humiliation around on him by taking on the term with a sense of pride in the name. Maybe a bit warped on our part, but the movie "Slaughterhouse 5" comes to mind when the main character was given a ridiculous coat by his German captors during World War II and the other prisoners told him that he needed to turn the insult around by wearing the coat with pride like he believed it was the grandest coat they could have given him.

[msunshine]

What a book that is!