Brenna A Captain Fires Lazy, Toxic Deckhand After Making $15,000 Mistake | Deadliest Catch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- On the Brenna A, Captain Sean Dwyer has had enough of his lazy deckhand Brett and has a team meeting with the rest of the crew, where they realise they would be better off without him.
From Season 12 Episode 13.
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On my first job many years ago, my Italian boss says to me with a stern look "Donta forget....You rocka da boat you might fall out."
*boata
While I agree with the decision, didn't like how Sean communicated it as a group decision. As the captain, he should have just said "I'm firing you" in private and left it like that.
U R right! Captain should have used more discretion
he probably would have but it's a show, they need something to film
Yeah very true. Hes the captain/boss, its his decision not the crews.
The crew shares the profits, seems to me that the Captain discussed it with the Crew in case so that it was unanimous decision and no hard feelings afterwards. Any of the Crew could of stuck up for the guy to ask for another chance. Also Brett didn't even acknowledge the mistake and gave excuses, it would probably went differently if he said hey it's my fault, and that I'll make sure it never happens again he wouldn't of been fired.
@@Ausuwa exacty, not only share the profits but just as important, share the workload. I can appreciate the capt giving his crew a say jn the matter instead of jsut making a decision, considering theyll be assuming the extra workload.
Any other captain on this show would have been SCREAMING at this dude. Sean is way chill
I’m not knowledgeable about the crabbing industry. I’m a truck driver. I can guarantee if I made a $15,000.00 dollar mistake, I’d be fired.
Yeah you're right Captain Keith would have come unhinged unglued unwired
I've run lots of heavy equipment crews. Screaming does nothing to help a situation. I'm almost as chill as Shawn. I just take bring them in the truck and let them know I'm letting them go except I don't give them a chance to explain or make excuses. If its that bad that I have to fire you, you are not talking your way back in. My last job I fired a guy on my first day. That raised some eyebrows lol.
@@dmsdmullins Oh I agree. But the captains on this show tend to have short fuses.
Agree, the captain was kinda soft . He was pretty soft. He seems bitterness.
So it’s the greenhorn’s problem that the cotton bio twine on the pots was old and rotten? Sounds like passing the buck to me. Couple of pots… yeah sure… I get it. But 31 pots on one string sounds more like that should have been addressed long before those pots were lined up to go over the side. Poor equipment management blamed on the lowest man on the totem pole if you ask me. Which you didn’t. But whatever. My two cents.
That guy sucked anyway, there is a reason they all wanted him gone. He obviously wasn't cutting it the crew and captain wanted him gone, that's his fault for sure
I was thinking the same thing, I was wondering if the twine was already degraded
It was his responsibility to check and replace the twine. He didn't.
@@niceguy6837 you do know that this is a show and they need to have things happen like this, right?
This is a tv show , edited to make it interesting. None of us know what exactly happened. But we can all agree we are all talking about it … almost like THAT was the point of the firing.
this crewman WAS lazy in my book and wasn't doing the quality work that they all needed from him. I think Sean handled this well.
I agree, this was not a 'mistake' it's just pure laziness.
Imagine this was wild Bill's boat.
He would have been thrown into the sea
Sean is a lot calmer about this than 99% of other captains
its because he is a very young captain without all the years experience under his belt that the other captains have. give him 10-20 more years and he will be just like all the others....
@@orion7741 makes sense, you can see the same mistake being done over and over, no matter how much you complain, or tell the guys to watch out for it you'll eventually snap. It's good though they're not meant to be friends, it's a job where everyone wants to get paid as much as possible in a short time so just do your damn job!
probably because its technically his fault...you can play the blame game but if your a crap boss, you will not get your workers to work the best. They think the money will bring in good workers, instead of ANY worker. This is almost a scam and when somethings a scam its never the bosses fault but always the worker.
Sounds like the whole industry is toxic, what will happen if they are told they can no longer crab up there? They will lose their job and not be qualified to flip burgers.
He’s on live tv making more money then them
@@karlg1535Don't tell me what to do boy,I'll do what i want!!!
It's not a "mistake " if you seriously don't care about your job.
A responsibility that important, with such massive consequences for everyone, left solely to a greenhorn
You’d think it would be on the deck boss to make sure it’s being done properly
I agree its easy to blame the least experienced but everyone above him has a responsibility to watch his work and help teach him so that everyone makes more money. That being said he was making excuses and not trying to improve his performance.
@@tomparker9966 It seems he has been told many times. The guys above him did watch his work. They counted every one of the pots he missed and they made a quick decision to get rid of him since he didn't want to listen and always had an excuse.
nope, the captains the problem. I can take a boat and make 100k off crab. That doesn't mean I know what I am doing, but the dude was not properly trained so its all the captains fault.
Which makes me think it was all rigged. Since nothing on TV has to be based in reality. That was the Supreme courts ruling on the news. Anything on TV is meant for entertainment purposes and not meant to be real.
So jerry springer, foot ball and yes...these crabby crab shows full of children. All can legally be scripted
Dude it's literally checking a string.
It's not your bosses job to go over your work every single time you do it just to tell you to do it right
31 pots with holes looks like sabotage to me
I wonder if the guys family runs a competitor.
Just laziness, nothing else to read into
yea, by the whole crew. not one other person on the ship noticed this guy's work..... that's carelessness on everyone's part.
That was a proper show of leadership. He made his expectations clear. he round tabled the crew, and handled the slinging in a calm manner.
I scrolled down to the comments because I thought the captain's leadership was questionable and I was curious what other people thought. Don't get me wrong, he made the right decision. I just think he executed the decision poorly. Set aside the fact that it doesn't appear the captain tried his best to course correct the issues, in my very humble opinion, a good leader would have the termination conversation one-on-one. Firing someone in a group environment and then asking other employees to basically pile on is.... not professional to put it mildly. The cherry on top of the weird-move-sundae was rather than allow the guy to share his thoughts (after ensuring his co-workers had that opportunity), the captain was like, ya sorry brah but the plane's here to pick you up. The captain does sound like a good guy but there's always room to improve leadership.
That was bad editing. They had Brett take stern watch while the rest of the crew discussed what to do about him, THEN the captain called him in the galley and sacked him 1 on 1. And let’s not forget that this captain seems to be more professional about firing somebody than 99% of white collar managers/ HR. The dreaded pile on thing didn’t happen here but I’ve absolutely seen it happen in those kind of workplaces.
@@JR-ii5de Thats just because you have 0 understanding of their reality. What they do is pure team work, it's GREAT leadership to have the others on board and expressing what they think. It shows leadership and respect to the crew.
@@OncleJer Ok Jeremie
@@OncleJer everyone has their own opinion but i was military and currently a firefighter. Alot of team work there. Never once saw my leadership fire or punish somebody in front of others and then let us join in on the berading of that person on the way out the door. Not unless we were all getting punished together. Awful leadership and unprofessional in my opinion
The guy is lucky they even made it back to port.
He’s bitching about not getting a day notice and I’m sitting here thinking “You wanted a day? To do what? Sabotage the ship?”
The way he left talking about how it would've been nice to have a day warning made me randomly think of Adam Sandler going "Things that could've been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!" 🤣
This is what a narcissist looks like. Never take responsibility for anything, it's someone else's fault
I wish I would have had a day's notice...
@@TBonerton wish and hope are two words that only hold you back and keep you from advancing in life
@@UnmaskingTheMachine LoL yes, wish in one hand and... you know the rest.
Agree with the way Sean handled everything, except for when he said the entire crew was in agreement that they'd be better off without him. Yes, get the rest of the crew's input before the firing, but there's nothing wrong with letting him think it was all the captain's decision. Most people will have self reflection after a firing, but the "No one here likes you," aspect makes it more personal and painful than it needs to be.
It's needs to be personal when you intentionally cost people their livelihood while you are kinda risking your life
@@dionicioysassi1564 No. It never *needs* to be personal in a professional setting.
@@Erinski sometimes it does. You just saw an instance of that.
@@dionicioysassi1564 Yeah, it got that way, but we're talking about need here. He *needed* to fire him. He didn't *need* to make it personal. He could've taken him aside, told him the mistakes were too much to overlook, and left it at that. The part about "The whole crew thinks we'd be better off without you," was unnecessary.
@@Erinski that's how it is on crab boats tho. that's money outta their pockets, because he was too lazy to do his work (after being reprimanded multiple times already). At some point people like this need to hear the truth
Did Brett eat a bugger when he was on wheelhouse duty??🤢🤮
looked like he wiped it on his beard...
wolverine fan maybe? Jim Harbaugh is big on eating boogers live on TV then denying it.
@@jimburg621 Who is that?
@@pamsimpson4147 the head football coach of the michigan wolverines. when asked, he denied it, but.....there is video evidence of him doing this live on TV. you tube jim harbaugh eating a booger.
I've never understood how anyone could actually eat a disgusting booger. I remember seeing kids and a couple of adults who actually do that. Stay away from those kind. 😆 🤣
You dont get warnings when your fired lmao thats kinda the point of being fired
Worked up north doing vessel entry, and you’re supposed to cut the ends off of the vac hoses afterwards so they can be fixed-up. Well buddy runs around cutting all the hose ends, including the other company’s. We’re only supposed to touch ours. Each hose is about $3,000. So in a matter of about ten minutes, this guy racked-up $10,000-$15,000 in damage on a job he may have made $5,000 on.
“He should have handled this in private”
Nah, this ain’t your average job. If you’re toxic and lazy in places like this, good and innocent people die.
You gotta show the crew you have their backs
I agree idk why everyone is complaining must be nice to have your boss communicate and work as a team especially how dangerous this job is.
Maybe the actual firing in private but
Idk, I was in the military and even then firings were private.
then blame the captain that the greenhorn wasn't trained properly...its a show dude and not real, its all fake. Look at the supreme court ruling about the news. Nothing on TV needs to be real, it is meant for entertainment purposes only and not meant to be taken as true. So NFL, Jerry Springer...crab wars or whatever its called...can all be scripted, fake...
It's a show, gotta make something dramatic
I feel like I could do the work & deal with the conditions of being at sea but if there's a lousy attitude among the crew I think that would drive me nuts & I couldn't deal with the negativity
When the negative crew mate is asleep everyone puts a bag over their head so he cannot identify anyone then you hold him down and everyone gets 3 hits with a pillow case filled with cans !!! Then next shift no body says anything and just talks about the importance of being mates while fishing and how scary it is when one slips and is never seen again !!!
@@GhostRider-eq3ki someone watched full metal jacket… or didn’t I’m not sure based on your comment entirely lol
It is what it is if you cost the boat $15,000 in one string you got to go
Hey they way I would say it is " it's not personal it's just buisness man" when you costing everyone money and every person is putting their life on the line and literally putting their life on the line he gotta go simple as that
Dude straight up picked his boogers and ate them bastards in his captains chair,like bruh?!!!😮😮😂😂😂😂
I'd work for Sean any day. Too many psychotic captains on the sea.
“I wish you guys would have told me before this trip.”
They wish you did your job.
i think they just wanted him gone .
the deck boss should know EVERYTHING the deck needs .
including the bio-degradable sections of the crab pots , condition of the hydraulics systems and ANY other thing they use/do to catch crab .
the greenhorn may be responsible to check but it's his superiors who are responsible for MAKING SURE he checked .
Exactly...And it's ultimately up to the captain to make sure the deck boss knows his responsibilities... The deck boss screwed the pooch...
Or, you do what’s expected of you. As a commercial salmon fisherman, I did everything without fail. As a greenhorn, I knew what was expected and tried to surpass it for a more permanent spot on the vessel. With that much repetition, it shouldn’t be hard
@@douglaswalters396 well as a " greenhorn " . . . maybe they just haven't learned it all yet . they're called " green " for a reason .
doesn't change what i posted .
Well the deck boss are not suppose to be a baby sitter, this wasen't the first trip out. Maybe on previous trips the greenhorn did what he was suppose to do but for what ever reason didn't on this trip? You can't expect the deck boss to be a baby sitter on every trip out, first and second trip I agree with you but not all the time.
@@pappy451 he's a grown azz man. He shouldn't have to have his hand held for every task assigned to him..checking "cotton" cant be that difficult..
Its nothing more than he is lazy
Captain’s job is of that of a business owner. If an employee is costing the company money, they have to go. Especially when there attitude is poor on top of it all. As a business owner of 6yrs, the hardest thing I dealt with personally was having to let someone go. If you’ve been a business owner you can understand what it feels like….it’s not a good feeling, but rather painful 😐😞 I can only speak for myself, not other business owners. For me I wanted everyone to do well and make good money for themselves and there families. But some employees just don’t perform very well because there either lazy or they just don’t care. The way this captain handled the firing by involving the other crew members I thought was a great way to handle the situation 🤷👍😐 It was very fair
My employer had a similar situation. One guy had serious anger issues and took it out on the employer, coworkers and customers, including myself on a regular basis to the point where we would be trying to act in a way that would not set him off. He ended up having a major argument with the foreman, after which he was told he no longer had a job, but begged for another chance. Boss talked to us about giving him another chance and as soon as he mentioned that I just blurted out 'No way,' along with a few choice words for even considering it. I feel like that made his decision alot easier. Nobody, especially hard grind employees should have to deal with people like that.
If lazy employees is all you get then why pay them a salary that benefits them???
Because you get the work you pay for. Minimum wage = Minimum effort.
@@baddriversofthenorcalarea500 Not true at all, there are back breaking jobs that get paid minimum wage because employers can get away with it. This is a very naive mindset
Not fair at all.
So. We're going to have a vote. Who wants to keep earning a paycheck out of my trust fund? Okay, that is unanimous, looks like this guy has gotta go. 😂
It's clear he doesn't care about the job.
Trust fund???
Someone's jealous
@@OoO-wq9cu Ah, no, I just think I saw an episode once that said this particular Captain inherited his boat, has a trust fund and uses it to run the operation and apparently takes votes from the crew for major decisions on national television. I think it's hilarious, I could watch him all day. 😆
@@cobblerwillorange 👌
@@cobblerwillorange I would appreciate that kind of respect and consideration. Personally, I would not care where his money comes from , as long as he is an effective captain.
Your dad was a smart man great advice
I've turned wrenches on a shrimp boat before.. the captain sets the mood and the tempo.. so if you got toxic guys.. you might wanna solve the morale issue.. or you are a bad captain.
This captain seems too green. He doesn't have the personality to be a strong leader.
i had a friend who told me at a job after firing a well liked guy . any one and everyone can be replaced. do your job right the first time and you will be fine. i also know how it feels to fire someone, its not cool to be put in a spot that firing is the only recourse
I would have had the deck boss standing tall with the "greenhorn " Im assuming the deck boos is responsible along with the captain to ensure the gear are all inspected for the next time they go out.
Without proper communication from the this captain small stuff will be overlooked3, he needs to improve his captain skills, his atta boy slaps on the backs of his crew.
Everything is about the captains on this program.
Did anyone see at 5.24 he picks his nose & eats it in front of camera
Did he just eat his booger @5:25 ??? I can’t even handle it !!! Lol
Yes he did
Captain is pretty unprofessional. Guy sucks and thats why he was fired and had to go i get that. But you dont do it in front of other crew members and let them chime in on why he sucks to his face. Decision was made that hes gotta go so you one on one tell him hey sorry not working your gone and thats it
And then he eats a bugger.
5:21
He picked his nose and ate it lol
100%
He really did😂
🤢
"When their problems become your problems, you fix it." hahaha I was a manager for 10 years... I hear that. All it takes is one toxic employee to ruin everything.
i couldn’t work with a booger eater .. that’s ehh idek..
Are we just gonna ignore the fact this guy picked his nose and licked his finger?
Ex commercial fisherman here , for sure one crappy negative guy can ruin it for the whole crew.
Hey Britt, get rid of that lip piercing.
I suspect the problems in this ship will continue, this wasn’t a personal issue this was a leadership issue, and the guy didn’t have personal issues the captain seemed to if anything
for real. seems like the guy was set up by the others too.
Not sure why, but my stupid as read word “dickhead” instead of “deckhead”. 😂😂😂
5:24 caught on camera eating a booger right before ya lost your job. Dudes having a rough run here.
I love how some of these crew members have no idea that they're getting fired.
usually how it goes anywhere...
@Joe Schmoe CLAPS uh OK. Who said anything about living paycheck to paycheck? My point is that I've never seen anyone expect to be fired unless they seriously messed something up. Even then they usually think they're just getting a suspension or write up. Don't really care if you are a good worker or not. You want a job or something?
Its never a good thing to be walking on egg shells knowing you could be next. Not a good life to be leading. Most people nowadays consider that a toxic environment. They stay long enough to collect a check and find another job.
Your intact pots weren't catching crab either lol
I don’t think it was Brett’s fault I think something that has a taste for opie crab that lives on the ocean floor is tearing holes in the pots and eating the crab in large amounts costing the crew crab and money.
Holes in the exact spot where the cotton is? They all dissolved because Brett wasn't replacing them last watch. 100% his fault.
Crew is only as strong as the weakest link
You cost any business $15k AND the boss and employees already dislike you? OH YEAH you gettin fired!
Doesn't seem fair that the greenhorn gets blamed for an oversight as huge as that.
@Richard Cranium The deck boss and every one senior to him should have noticed the problem before setting those pots.
@@KM-em9me don’t worry man, it’s all for show!
I would agree if that was the only mistake but that's not the case... He's made several mistakes affecting all of the crew.
@@KM-em9meshows you don't have accountability for your actions so if you mess something up and you don't think he's told him thousands of time you just think your entitled to a job. Your comment just shows your work ethic.
@@KM-em9memaybe you should go to 2:40 and rewatch 🤷♂️
Well handled - set out your expectations. Everone makes mistakes, the problem is when they keep making the same mistakes or don't care. As a team leader I had to let a guy go because it wasn't fair on the others and his laziness created a toxic working environement. Why should they put themselves out when he doesn't? He's history.
Haha "team leader" those sandwiches don't make themselves I guess
Wish my last employer was like this, had a similar situation there. Because they shared the same nationality though, the toxic/lazy one was never so much as given a talking to; but if I had made a small mistake while giving it my all the entire shift every shift, they'd threaten to fire me. Once I realized that it didn't matter how good of a job I did, I left and haven't looked back.
Actually that firing went pretty smooth.
Here’s a tip I learned in life the boss would have more respect for you if you just man up and say I f**ked up and then show you can make it right. You don’t score any respect acting like an idiot blaming the captain when it was clearly your fault.
he was high around the table at the end
I can see both sides of the coin here. I mean, it is a dangerous job, and it does require teamwork. And I suppose you could argue that making his expectations clear and keeping it quiet that the guy was on the way out to avoid a scene made sense. But I also see the other side, because I've been there. See, I lost one job after another ever since I quit my first job to transfer somewhere else when I was in my early 20s. Always some BS reason with no real exposition behind it from my bosses, just, out of the blue one day I'm told I'm gone. I became beyond burned out as a result. Now my health has actively degraded to the point I can't work anymore. So what, you may be thinking. Sounds like you were just a lousy worker who refused to grow up and learn. Right? Except there's a little surprise in this story--at 36, I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. My whole life I had never even suspected I was autistic. I was "odd" to most people, but must people just chalked me up as annoying and shunned me. I spent my whole life up to that point being ashamed, bitter, frustrated and loathing myself because no matter how hard I tried I never managed to get anywhere because I didn't know HOW I annoyed others, or caused issues. And I get just sick of thinking about how many times I got mistreated, fired, talked down to, etc. by people who had no clue I didn't understand (how could I when I didn't even know?) and then NEVER gave me any constructive criticism about how to improve. How to grow. I've made more progress in learning that in the last 6 years than I did in the 36 years before that because now I have some inkling of WHAT people find annoying, and I can inform others that I have autism, and that you need to be patient with me and explain things that may seem obvious to you if I am annoying you, since I don't mean to and my motives for doing things are just...different than other people's. And how is this deckhand supposed to learn if no one will bother to tell him what he did wrong? Maybe he doesn't understand. Maybe he wants to do better but doesn't know how. And yeah, I get him feeling ticked that they just hit him with this right before his plane is supposed to leave and then conveniently use that as an excuse to keep him from having any chance to say anything in his defense.
How did it take 36 years for anyone to realize you were autistic? Usually that stuff is caught pretty early in childhood.
Never hire a guy with a lip ring
"Obviously WE weren't double checking the pots."
Yea that's pretty obvious CAPTAIN.
how does getting rid of one guy make EVERY ones job twice as hard? if theres 5 people and you get rid of one, thats 25% more on each person....how can someone be that wrong with numbers? Sounds like he isn't a good employer. But when you share thousands of dollars a year with your workers, no ones gonna say you suck. You can make money anywhere and for less work. But doesn't mean he doesn't suck as a boss.
its his fault he didn't make sure a reliable person was well trained did their job properly. If ya reminded people often, then it wouldn't happen. I mean how long have those things been not touched? Longer than it takes for the cage to open apparently which means HE SUCKS donkey - - - - as a captain and employer
No explanation needed. bye dude
Those pots should of been checked a long time ago, but let's blame the lowest guy there. Absolutely classic and firing someone in front of the whole crew and then asking everybody's opinion about it in front of him was classless! This captain has a lot to learn about something called respect and professionalism!
They fired the entire crew the next season cauae they didnt want to work hard.... Probably the worst boat I've ever worked on Sean. The captain can definitely drive a boat like none other, but definitely questionable when it comes to choices of who he's hiring. He's a younger captain. I had just met him a couple months prior almost told him no cuz I did not have any interest of being on that show... I should have taken one of the other two boats but you living and learn. Also the things that didn't make it on the show which said a lot more light on that but not even worth getting into
Seems like the Captain entrusted the new guy with an important task that he was not able to handle. Why would you check the cotton? You know that they dissolve in thirty days. So every twenty days they should be re tied. Not checked
First year up there in 89 I blew up a 5 grand grinder by being stupid and not listening...I didn't get fired but got yelled at a long time in 3 languages.....lol
So many cowards and narcissists in these comments 85% of these “toxic employee” stories I can just tell they’re awful bosses
*y is it that dudes fault if only 3 of em had holes in em?*
Checks the strings, tells the captain all the crab pots are rotten, go's fishing anyway, what would be the point, failures all round
Did anybody see where he picked his nose and ate it
Can you really blame one guy for the cotton? I mean there's a boat load of experienced guys looking at these pots before they are set.. just looks like an easy way of firing someone he doesn't like if you ask me.
Captain of the boat should make sure his gear is good to go. If all pots are bad then he should've made sure they were good before heading out. Yeah i get this show has turned into a reality show.
he lucky he wasn't slacking for the kinda crew that could had made him "walk the plank"!
Deckhands sacked for not caring mostly do not care about being sacked, it is a cycle of not caring...
This was truly hard to watch. It’s not even my money and it hurt me.
So curious does he still get paid after that happens? Not sure how that works.... just curious!
Crap captain. Does not knoe how to be professional
The captain is a coward to make this a group conversation. Take responsibility and own it.
I whould of liked to a have a days warning why so you mess things up worse then you already did. No Thanks
How is that the brand new guys problem? A good leader teaches new people how things are done.
Are these regular working men in the course of their day or movie stars? I don’t get it
So you copy the best parts of discovery channel shows thank you
Do they not do inventory of the gear before they head out? I feel like thats on the Captain
..am I the only person who saw him pick his nose and eat it while sitting in the captain chair?
Instead of firing them they used to throw them overboard.
wagie rage
day and night with co-workers and the boss?? hell no!
Ain't no cure for toxic! Cut bait never made more sense than here.
maybe stop hiring junkies?
He should be fired for eating his own booger on camera
Why do they keep calling him Brit?
If you dont do your job then you dont get to keep it, simple
this guy things hes the protag - very goofy energy
Nobody watches this show anymore lol
5:24 did he eat his own booger......hmmmm
Did that guy pick his nose and eat it????
Yeah I think this entire situation was pre-planned. Doesn't make for good TV when everything's going smoothly and everyone's doing their part.
Lol around 5:20. He ate his boogies.
I know they're trying to make dramatic reality faux TV, but in my granddads day, they just fired them and moved on with life!! My granddad had many 5 second convos, "thanks for being on board, you're fired"!!
He did warn this guy it seems like
5:24 DID HE EAT A BOOGER??
Not taking ownership, the sign of a toxic boss…. Boss, not leader.
I will say as an outsider, never seeing the show to know how good or bad he was. It is frustrating that the “status quo,” is, as an employee if you are going to leave a job for any reason it’s expected that you give the company a two weeks notice whereas an employer can know ahead of time that you are going to be fired but no one expects ample warning. Even more important in a job like this where you are in the middle of nowhere and could be better served to make some plans for the future if only you knew what everyone else knew.
I agree, and from what it looked like they only gave him a chance to explain himself after the entire crew and captain had agreed to kick him off.
The law in this case actually requires the owner to pay for the fired employees ticket home. He didn't get stranded in Alaska and he gets paid the same for those strings he worked as everyone else did (although in this case that was almost nothing since he screwed everything up). As for two weeks notice, it may be the status quo, but it's not the law and I don't know anyone who ever got asked in a job interview if they gave two weeks notice to the previous job.