Disconnected From The World
Forget keeping up with your favorite TV programs. If you work on a cruise ship, you’re lucky to keep up with the news in general. As much as it may pain you to not see your favorite team smash next season out of the park, sometimes it’s impossible to tune in. Internet connections at sea are notoriously expensive and unreliable. Oftentimes, you have to catch up when you dock, leaving days between when you get your news and not.
For this reason, many cruise workers tend to stop following news, sports, and pop culture altogether. They barely keep in touch with their routine on land. You might not be able to read your e-mail, let alone keep up with your favorite TV shows. Working aboard a cruise ship, though, you are unlikely to enjoy such luxury. Even if you have access to Wi-Fi, it is almost certainly not free, so double-check before you go crazy.
Crew Workers Speak In Code
Crew members don’t want to alarm passengers. Guests are on vacation and don’t need to know about every little emergency – especially if it doesn’t have to do with them. What sort of mass panic would it cause if every passenger suddenly knew there was a small fire on the ship? It’d be hectic! Because of this, crew workers use certain codes that they can announce on a loudspeaker without alarming passengers.
The Crew Parties Harder Than The Guests
The majority of cruise ship crew members are foreign nationals with little financial resources. They don’t get paid well, but if they work hard for more than four months, they may make a decent living. Work hard, party hard – this motto holds true for cruise ship workers. When workers aren’t working, they’re probably drinking and partying. In fact, the crew has a special “crew only” bar with insanely cheap liquor.
You Can’t Hook Up With The Guests
If you’re looking to find a fun fling while you’re on contract at sea, look away from anyone who may be on vacation. Cruise workers are strictly forbidden to hook up with guests, and it’s one of the easiest ways to get booted from your job. In fact, according to an anonymous cruise worker, the crew is actually discouraged from interacting with guests one-on-one. Must be hard, eh?
The cruise industry employs a large number of men and women who work hard for their money by sailing around the world on ships, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to have a good time while doing so. This helps protect the cruise line from any sort of accusations that may hurt the ship’s reputation. If you’re caught breaking the rules, you’ll be kicked off at the next port. So be careful!
But Hook-Ups Happen
Just because crew members can’t hook up with guests doesn’t mean they’re celibate at sea. In fact, it’s sort of the opposite. Crew members frequently get down and dirty with each other. Think about it: you’re around the same people for nearly a year at a time, isolated on this ship. You’re in romantic, exotic locations with tons of alcohol on hand. That should be enough to describe how excited one could get.
Hook-ups are bound to happen, and according to an anonymous cruise worker, they happen a lot. And the safest and healthiest way possible would be for the cruise workers to find fun amongst the workers. “People hook up all the time. There are a ton of crew parties,” he said. And we don’t blame them for that. Hooking up is so prevalent that the crew areas on ships often have posters about STD prevention.
Hook-ups are bound to happen, and according to an anonymous cruise worker, they happen a lot. And the safest and healthiest way possible would be for the cruise workers to find fun amongst the workers. “People hook up all the time. There are a ton of crew parties,” he said. And we don’t blame them for that. Hooking up is so prevalent that the crew areas on ships often have posters about STD prevention.
Crew Members Pull Pranks On Passengers
It may be hard for us to imagine, but for cruise workers, it can get pretty boring at sea. To be cut off from land and routine for long can be tiring. Imagine having to spend so much time away from family, you could easily get home sick. To break the monotony, cruise members pull pranks on passengers. The pranks are pretty innocuous, as messing with passengers too hard is a great way to get fired.
