re: Anyone ever work on a cruise ship?

You also get hours off not days. You work seven days a week while in your contract. You may get 10 hours leave or breaks but you work every day. Some work breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight buffet.

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Lots of sex, drinking, but no sleep or down time. Pretty much slavery

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Well, wait. What???

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You also get hours off not days. You work seven days a week while in your contract.

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this is not specific to a cruise ship though

I talked to a girl from Scotlamd and another from South Africa who worked in the spa on a cruise. They were from the "better" countries compared to the Eastern Europeans and South Americans who had the shite jobs.

I asked them about their jobs. The main thing I recall is the Scot said she signed on to "see the world." I started asking her if she had visited certain places in New Orleans, where her ship docked.

She and the other gal had never been further ashore than the Riverwalk Mall where the ship docked. Had never set foot in the French Quarter despite months on the ship.

That's fricking sad. I guess that can happen if your hours off are just a few at a time, at sea, or when you need to sleep.

Good friend was the "youth coordinator" on some Holland America cruises in the Caribbean. He loved it. HAL demographics are older, so he worked around 2 hours a day.

Shore Ex. people do fairly well. You have to deal with a lot of idiots but you get to do a shite load of fun stuff.

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Bunch of mother frickers that have been on a cruise for a board that calls them trash

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is this pro or con trashy?