Open Letter
Dear Sir,
Given recent events, I think it only fair that I explain myself. It’s true that I left your crew with a scant 10 hours notice, an act that was not very courteous. However, given the mountain of shit that I had to climb over to even come close to being in your good graces, and the injustice I faced once at the top of said mountain; I feel my actions were more than justified.
To give you an update. I am working at a company that by it’s own officer’s calculations is around 50% Queer, and 50% Female. I love my job, and my coworkers. They are accepting, they train well, they are skilled, and they are constantly bettering themselves, and sharpening their skills.
You Sir, are the worst kind of person. By what I can only imagine was a brief decade of dedication to your Maritime Education, you somehow became a skilled boat-handler. However, you have managed in recent years to delude yourself into thinking that you are the “good captain” measuring stick against which every other captain is measured. Perhaps when compared to your fellows that may be true. Indeed measuring your skill against men and women who allow their boats to be run aground on lit beaches, catch fire, and all but sink to the bottom of the ocean - I can see where you may have developed these delusions.
Allow me to briefly outline what disqualifies you as a good captain. You hold yourself to be above your own laws, you are so sure of your correctness that you leave no room for the inevitable time that you will be wrong, you allow your training and promotion schedules to be dictated by strange skewed sexual preferences and gender bias, and you have so little an understanding of your biases that you don’t even realize you are acting on them.
I now work for people who have little ego about their skill, and talent. These people make the most of every day by constantly improving themselves, and knowing their fallibility. I would have liked to end this rant with a few choice, and well placed swears. But I realized that the worst thing I say about you, is to quality you as my former Captain. I wish you the best, and hope that you don’t fall to your own hubris.
Sincerely,
Zephyr
