Loonbeam Posted November 14, 2016 #26 Share Posted November 14, 2016 One of the crew told me ages ago that if a longer drydock is planned, there are many contracts timed to end with the drydock start, sometimes as much as half the crew. As noted, some of the crew stay on board, I believe to feed the contractors when applicable, also to conduct cleaning of areas not being renovated (such as them empty crew quarters, etc). I would think also that some might go to help out on other ships, if the ports intersect, but was never sure about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill B Posted November 14, 2016 #27 Share Posted November 14, 2016 pablo222, Here's where I got the information the 'pool' is collected and distributed separately for each voyage on each ship - http://www.crew-center.com/princess-cruises-crew-wages-details If you can reference something more current to back your statements, I'll stand corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted November 14, 2016 #28 Share Posted November 14, 2016 So, if you want to say one pool per ship, per voyage ... knock yourself out. The person in charge of crew payroll on one Princess ship this past year told me tips are not shared between ships. If you do not want to believe the payroll person, that is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo222 Posted November 14, 2016 #29 Share Posted November 14, 2016 (edited) If you can reference something more current to back your statements, I'll stand corrected. All I can say is that is not a current contract. You should review section G in a current contract. But, this is just what I say. Like you, I am just an anonymous internet poster. I might you right, you might be right, or we both might be wrong. Edited November 14, 2016 by pablo222 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo222 Posted November 14, 2016 #30 Share Posted November 14, 2016 (edited) The person in charge of crew payroll on one Princess ship this past year told me tips are not shared between ships. If you do not want to believe the payroll person, that is fine. There have been thousands of posts on cruise critic: "This person told me this" Some small percentage of them are sometime true. This is the beauty of cruise critic -- there is no way to 'prove' anything. Additionally, why would 'a payroll person' tell a passenger company details? Disclosing company confidential information is a "Gross Misconduct" violation, and the employee can be terminated. Would you like to post their name? Edited November 14, 2016 by pablo222 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted November 15, 2016 #31 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Would you like to post their name? No, I never post an employee name other than CD or Captain, names which are common knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo222 Posted November 15, 2016 #32 Share Posted November 15, 2016 No, I never post an employee name other than CD or Captain, names which are common knowledge. It would seem to me that princess probably has some 'party line' answers for questions passengers might ask. Does the money in the tip pool go to the employees onboard? Yes. And, that answer would be perfectly correct if the money went to additional people besides those onboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted November 16, 2016 #33 Share Posted November 16, 2016 It would seem to me that princess probably has some 'party line'answers for questions passengers might ask. Does the money in the tip pool go to the employees onboard? Yes. And, that answer would be perfectly correct if the money went to additional people besides those onboard. But the question I asked was: Does the tip money on this ship get shared with workers on other ships? No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiser411 Posted November 16, 2016 #34 Share Posted November 16, 2016 But the question I asked was: Does the tip money on this ship get shared with workers on other ships? No No...the tip money is pooled from all the ships and then allocated back to the eligible crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo222 Posted November 16, 2016 #35 Share Posted November 16, 2016 But the question I asked was: Does the tip money on this ship get shared with workers on other ships? No No...the tip money is pooled from all the ships and then allocated back to the eligible crew. Perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo222 Posted November 16, 2016 #36 Share Posted November 16, 2016 pablo222, Here's where I got the information the 'pool' is collected and distributed separately for each voyage on each ship - http://www.crew-center.com/princess-cruises-crew-wages-details If you can reference something more current to back your statements, I'll stand corrected. I think it's funny that you argue so strenuously, when your basis is a single web page. Of course, everything on the internet is true, and that goes double for cruise critic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill B Posted November 16, 2016 #37 Share Posted November 16, 2016 A single web page is one more than you've cited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo222 Posted November 16, 2016 #38 Share Posted November 16, 2016 (edited) A single web page is one more than you've cited. Of course, folks from different countries have different contracts. Some use agents, some don't. Some stay six months, some stay 10 or longer. Some are crew, some are staff. A single source of questionable reliability is certainly the holy grail of all crew contract knowledge. Carry on! Edited November 16, 2016 by pablo222 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredie Posted November 16, 2016 #39 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I'm not sure what you meant by that but I don't always hang out online all day. I was curious as to what happened with the crew during dry dock. I asked the question and received many good responses. Did I break any protacol? No. It was an interesting question. Some threads on CC always devolve into arguments, especially anything having to do with tipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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