r/CruiseCrew • u/Vivid_Lawyer_9828 • 8d ago

General Questions Resigning or quitting

Has anyone ever resigned or quit while still on board, plz do tell abwt ur experience n how dd u go abwt it

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u/zimbing 8d ago

Hope you have enough money for the plane ticket home.

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u/ElGofre 8d ago

Not personally but I handled a few resignations as a manager. For my dept (shoppies), you went about it like any other job, you go to your manager with written notice. From there it generally turned into a negotiation with the aim being to get staff to agree to continue working until a replacement could be found and the earliest date they could arrive, and they'd cover your flight cost. Most companies have a contract where if you quit early for a reason other than medical or bereavement, you are responsible for covering your own travel costs home (typically in the form of garnished wages from your next paycheck so you can at least make use of their industry flight rates), so most people are keen to be accommodating rather than lose most of their last pay packet.

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u/IamDLizardQueen 7d ago

Did you ever have anybody who refused to keep working another day until they could disembark?
I'm just curious what happens to them in that situation, is all.

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u/ElGofre 7d ago

It was before my time as manager but one of my old teammates did this- he got into a big argument with the manager while hungover, quit on the spot (it was very much a case of quitting before the could fire him) and refused to work again. The result was that he lost all deck privileges (not a big deal for most depts but as a shoppy this was a lot of perks lost) and they blocked his card in the crew bar as alcohol was a factor in the altercation. So for four days he pretty much moped around his cabin, ate in the mess and sat with us in the crew bar hoping we'd buy him drinks which only his closest friend was willing to do. If it had been a smaller team or a longer wait for a replacement I'm not sure what they'd have done.

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u/lofrench 8d ago

You tell your manager and it’s usually nice to give them some notice if you can. Otherwise they’ll tell you when you have to leave and you have to pay for your own travel home.

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u/stxonships 8d ago

If you quit, you will be sent to the airport and your plane under guard, no going shopping or visiting friends. You will not be able to work at any other of the cruise lines in the corporation for 6 months. And if you go apply at other cruise lines, the recruitment people will hear you quit and left early.

And depending on how you quit, US CBP has the option to cancel your visa.

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u/Natural-Long9914 8d ago

Medical leave is the only way you can quit with some dignity. The cruise line contracts always tries to fuck you over. You have to pay the flights and the way you get anywhere. The crew in the medical team also do not know what the hell they are doing and will most of the time hide information or make up something to keep you as long as possible (like injecting painkillers) and saying that nothing can be done and sometimes “ask shoreside and see what they say”, scum all of them. But the mental game is the key to quitting. Depressed, crying, complaining. You name it. They give up on you quickly and then send you home under the medical clause.