AnonymousCM5
Member
A good or bad schedule depends in your management, when I worked for Carnival and Royal Caribbean, Management was nice and well organized, we usually had Loading once per week (every turnaround day) stand by since 9am to receive the manager call to bring items to the shopfloor or to the locker, as it was a team play, by 12:30 we finished. Salary was $850 dlls per month plus commissions, only in Carnival commissions were good, cleaning service to the cabin, very good food, nice crew parties and very relaxing crew life, with Royal only having good parties and enjoying the ports, no cleaning service to the cabin but nice crew life (food was ok)
Once I moved to NCL everything changed, cruiseline has way more restrictions, name tags everywhere, safety shoes in the i95, specific times to eat at garden Cafe, crew bar closing at 2am and after that security was kicking you out, for overnight you need to be back on board by midnight, I lost 8 kg because food was terrible (dry, not well cooked, not tasty) ended up eating noodles from the shops, crew shop is also managed by us so we do rotation for it.
Regarding the job, also harder because deliveries arrived late (around 11 - noon) since they have priority for their own loading first, assistants and manager were giving you different instructions that makes you work double, as I was familiar with previous managements and experiences, I didn't enjoy my last contract. Display are more stricts and not pushing trolleys at all in guest area allowed, wherever you go you need to be in uniform and with name tag and for your sign off, security is checking every suitcase by hand.
Definitely never going back to NCL.
Once I moved to NCL everything changed, cruiseline has way more restrictions, name tags everywhere, safety shoes in the i95, specific times to eat at garden Cafe, crew bar closing at 2am and after that security was kicking you out, for overnight you need to be back on board by midnight, I lost 8 kg because food was terrible (dry, not well cooked, not tasty) ended up eating noodles from the shops, crew shop is also managed by us so we do rotation for it.
Regarding the job, also harder because deliveries arrived late (around 11 - noon) since they have priority for their own loading first, assistants and manager were giving you different instructions that makes you work double, as I was familiar with previous managements and experiences, I didn't enjoy my last contract. Display are more stricts and not pushing trolleys at all in guest area allowed, wherever you go you need to be in uniform and with name tag and for your sign off, security is checking every suitcase by hand.
Definitely never going back to NCL.
