The food service: the best part of working offshore!
Lodging, food, recreation and health are services that companies must provide to the workers of offshore rigs and drilling units, because by the nature of the work they must remain for long periods in the sea.
The quality of the food service is definitely one of the positive points when we are isolated for so long in these units, the food served offshore is often comparable with that of quality restaurants. Those who have had the experience of working in some offshore unit know what I'm talking about.
Below I show the person responsible that we all increase a few extra pounds during our guard at sea.
From now on you can see some of the delicacies with which the chef pleased the food tastes and customs of a work team made up of people from different cultures.
My favorite part... dessert
Working offshore is a difficult task that normally implies having to spend from a week to months in the sea, away from your family and friends. But it is also an opportunity to make new and great friends who happen to be like a family.
In the next photo I am with the most spoiled chef of all, who fulfilled all my cravings and sent me snacks to the office, because he knows I love candy.
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Now I got hungry :-)
I spent my military service in a station being awarded with "best kitchen" many years in a row, the officers mess and conscript mess was combined, so we got better food than most conscripts. Particularly the Friday lunch buffets were really fantastic. Unfortunately most of the Fridays I would have to pack my lunch pack during our breakfast buffet and eat it while sitting at my post inside a mountain.
We got food for free from the mess, but we also had an alternative - a canteen where we could pay for eating some pizzas (I don't remember, I think it wasn't much good - probably frozen pizzas). We didn't have a buffet for dinner, it was typically only one dish to choose from. Once or twice a week we would have fish. Fish wasn't that popular with most of the conscripts, so we were talking about it and my colleagues concluded ... "today we'll eat in the canteen". I think I was the only conscript eating in the mess that day, and there was some really delicious halibut to be had.
I came back to the university during one of my leaves and took a hot chocolate from the dispenser in the canteen - and totally forgot that I also should pay for it :-)
I've been largely absent from Steemit over the last month or so, too busy to read or write anything here ... but I came back now specifically to check for news from Venezuela, what's your stance on the current political situation? (or is that a too contentious question?)
Hi @tobixen, I realized your absence because I was watching your blog days ago. I'm surprised with your question but not because I think it's controversial, but because I'm curious to know that you've heard about the situation in Venezuela.
What have I heard about the current situation in Venezuela ... well ...
Venezuela is a rich country, with quite some natural resources, particularly oil and gold. Chavez was elected as president and was very popular in his first term. His economic policies made some positive impacts on the society - though the long-term impact of his policies have been very bad. I believe it's more about a lack of economical competence than a question about right and left in the politics.
The currency situation has been particularly weird, with the hyperinflation just becoming worse and worse, and the Bolivars having an "official" exchange rate that was very much different than the real market price.
Maduro took over as president after Chavez died, this has not helped the economic situation. It has also gotten worse due to economic sanctions from the US and some other countries. Maduro got reelected in the last election, but the election has been condemned internationally as unfair and rigged.
Now this young parliament leader has declared himself interim president - as far as I've understood he claims that the parliament has constitutional rights to lay down veto to the presidential election? He was immediately recognized as president by the US white house. Some media outlets take it for given that Guaidó has asked for support from the US prior to declaring himself as president, hence there are speculations that this is a coup d'etat initiated by the US. Now, it's very bad if Guaidó really is a US puppet ... and being a puppet of the current US president is even worse. I hope it isn't so.
Now I'm very curious what powers Guaidó actually has. If this will escalate into a violent conflict, the military seems to obey Maduro.
I really hope this conflict will get resolved peacefully. I believe the best would be if Maduro would allow new and fair presidential elections to be held in the near future, and that some new economically competent government actually managed to stabilize the Bolivar currency. I believe the very worst scenario would be a US military intervention.
What we Venezuelans most desire is that the conflict ends peacefully, because we are in the midst of a rather delicate situation, although not all of us live the same reality.
With regard to Guaidó, according to the constitution has no power, he proclaimed himself president on the street, he did not in the parliament that he presiding, and reciting article 233 of the Constitution, which refers to the absolute faults of the President, which is not meet.
In the presidential elections in May 2018, many opposition parties did not participate because they did not agree to choose a leader. The opponent who participated did not have the support of most of the opposition politicians who decided to play abstention perhaps because everyone is pursuing personal goals.
Chavez was a leader and his policies were good in the short term but not in the long term because he gave power to people who had never been heard and who were not prepared to assume it, before dying he asked that in his absence the people would support Maduro, who won the elections in the year 2014.
Many of the people working with the government were engaged in stealing (corruption) and with the death of Chavez the corruption increased because they felt that the revolution was going to end soon and at the turn of 5 years we have the worst crisis in Venezuela, a combination of international economic suffocation coupled with the country's internal corruption.
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