{"id":4005,"date":"2015-10-24T15:52:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T22:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2015-10-24T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T22:52:38","slug":"butterfly-effect-at-sea-10092015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4005","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Effect \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [10\/09\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blindfold\"<\/a>When we had our regular start of cruise department meeting this week, there were two conspicuous empty chairs: we have no \u2018Cats vocalist\u2026nor do we have a drummer. They resigned, mid-contract, the night before a turn-around port\u2026walked off the ship the next morning.<\/p>\n

We won\u2019t get replacements until the next port in Mexico.<\/p>\n

I think I may still be in some kind of odd shock that someone would do such a thing. Would just drop their team, without a single thought to how it would affect anyone else.<\/p>\n

I have said many times before that professionalism is not a paycheque, it\u2019s an attitude. You can have the highest-paying gig in the world, and while I will do my best to respect you, it doesn\u2019t automatically mean that I will consider you a professional.<\/p>\n

Out here, actions don\u2019t just speak louder than words, they yell over the din of the day to day. There is never a circumstance in which your actions do not affect others in your life, but when you\u2019re working ship-side your actions don\u2019t just achieve a ripple effect; they are intricately<\/em> connected to your co-workers. Out here we are all co-dependent. That\u2019s one of the reasons we are required to be so respectful of hierarchy out here, it \u2013 to a certain extent \u2013 can stop the damage of the butterfly effect. But that\u2019s not the point here.<\/p>\n

We have<\/em> to be able to trust each other, at least as far as work goes. We may not always get along on a personal level (though luckily on this ship most of do), but being able to trust each other in a work environment is absolutely essential when you work in a place like this. You have to know that when you walk onto that floor, or onto the stage, that the band, the team, the cast, whoever, has your back. You have<\/em> to know that your crewmates are going to be there. In ever y sense.<\/p>\n

When someone breaks that trust, the entire department is effected, we all get struck by the hurricane caused by the butterfly wing and as a result we\u2019re somewhat left flying blind. Something like this hits all of us, and it hits hard. It means we start the cruise slightly on the wrong foot, and we start two team members down. It\u2019s not what they did \u2013 I\u2019m sure they had their reasons and I\u2019m sure those reasons were valid if only to them \u2013 it\u2019s how they did it. 9:30pm the night before a new cruise is not the time to announce you\u2019re leaving the next day. They didn\u2019t even have the common courtesy to tell Amras first, they jumped I don\u2019t know how many links in the chain of command then acted shocked when there was ugly fallout.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll get through it of course, we\u2019ll get a new pair of musos in the next port (we hope), and in the meantime everyone else pulls in and picks up the slack. Amras can drum if he has to, and there is no shortage of female vocalists onboard who can step in and cover a set if we\u2019re asked (though I will admit, I\u2019m a little nervous about the prospect, it\u2019s one thing to know the book inside out \u2013 quite another to actually perform it).<\/p>\n

But as I said once before a few seasons ago, you can have played the stages of London and sung in Carnegie Hall, you can have a resume as long as the ship and that doesn\u2019t make you a professional; or you could be dancing for pennies and times to a violin on the street corner and be the most professional person in the world.<\/p>\n

Sometimes things happen that just really really drive home that difference.<\/p>\n

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