Those were some of worst excuses I’ve ever heard. I think he probably should have already retired anyway. It doesn’t seem like he had any interest in actually doing his job anymore.
Age 73, why was he even still on the job? Are we letting retiree aged people have all the jobs now?
Yes, there is no maximum age for a job, no mandatory retirement age, that’s age discrimination.
Well yeah, but… When people’s lives are at stake, things change. It’s why we geck the elderly more when they want to drive a car, de example
There should be a competency clause for people who are old enough for CPP payments.
This is a clear case of old man tunnel vision thinking. Mental rigidity is a clear sign of aging’s cognitive decline. He is way past his prime. He is being railroaded, for a damn good reason.
Absolutely. Performance or safety metrics. But it can’t be based on age.
Then implement an annual cognitive function test for all captains. Soon as someone doesn’t hit the required metric on a retest medically retire them.
This is a job where mental flexibility and quick decision making could literally be life and death, if the person in charge of the boat isn’t able to cut it then get them out.
Well, they have to eat and they will never land a new job, so they’re stuck making do.
Idk, guy I used to work with said he was late to work once because the cops picked him up at a bus stop saying he matched the description of someone who robbed a bank that morning.
He lived 4 blocks from site, not large blocks, start time is 7 and he got in at 7:45…tell me what bank is open at 7am to be robbed in the first place.
Still Captain Dingledorf over here has some pretty piss-poor excuses.
“You can’t just take off on a wild goose chase when you don’t have your co-ordinates,” he argued. “There’s got to be some management there.”
One of the deckhands also testified that Callaghan either turned off the radio or turned down its volume so he would not have to listen to the calls. Asked during cross-examination, the former captain offered three different answers.
“I might have turned it down a touch if it was too loud, but enough that I could hear it,” Callaghan told CBC News this week.
According to the decision, the second mayday call, at 8:33 a.m., relayed the co-ordinates of the Knot a Chance.
I hope he continues to make noise about it so more people see what an inept prick this guy is.
And on top of it he could have retired like 10 years ago. Just having to retire now is getting off lightly.
He should be up on charges.
