Any other captain on this show would have been SCREAMING at this dude. Sean is way chill

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."

Sean is a lot calmer about this than 99% of other captains

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.

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.

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.

Imagine this was wild Bill's boat.

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!" 🤣

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.

“I wish you guys would have told me before this trip.” They wish you did your job.

31 pots with holes looks like sabotage to me

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

It's not a "mistake " if you seriously don't care about your job.

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?”

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.

Your dad was a smart man great advice

You dont get warnings when your fired lmao thats kinda the point of being fired

I love how some of these crew members have no idea that they're getting fired.

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.

It is what it is if you cost the boat $15,000 in one string you got to go

5:24 caught on camera eating a booger right before ya lost your job. Dudes having a rough run here.

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

I've watched so many seasons....and the other countries narration...Mike Rowe, you are the real deal.

Your intact pots weren't catching crab either lol

Ex commercial fisherman here , for sure one crappy negative guy can ruin it for the whole crew.

Dude straight up picked his boogers and ate them bastards in his captains chair,like bruh?!!!😮😮😂😂😂😂

I don't know how any of those dudes actually do that job man it is crazy hard work.

I respect the captain a lot, didn’t even cuss at the guy

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

he was high around the table at the end

I'd work for Sean any day. Too many psychotic captains on the sea.

Actually that firing went pretty smooth.

"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.

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.

"Obviously WE weren't double checking the pots." Yea that's pretty obvious CAPTAIN.

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

I swear they put the long titles on the videos to get you to click on the video to see the title

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!

Did he just eat his booger @5:25 ??? I can’t even handle it !!! Lol

5:21 He picked his nose and ate it lol 100%

This is what a narcissist looks like. Never take responsibility for anything, it's someone else's fault

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 .

You cost any business $15k AND the boss and employees already dislike you? OH YEAH you gettin fired!

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 was truly hard to watch. It’s not even my money and it hurt me.

Do they not do inventory of the gear before they head out? I feel like thats on the Captain

Did Brett eat a bugger when he was on wheelhouse duty??🤢🤮

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

he lucky he wasn't slacking for the kinda crew that could had made him "walk the plank"!

Did anyone see at 5.24 he picks his nose & eats it in front of camera

Crew is only as strong as the weakest link

“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

“A man gonna know his limitations” Clint Eastwood Quote ❤️💯

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

..am I the only person who saw him pick his nose and eat it while sitting in the captain chair?

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.

And then he eats a bugger.

"Your job gets twice as hard." So does that mean I make more?

He did warn this guy it seems like

Not sure why, but my stupid as read word “dickhead” instead of “deckhead”. 😂😂😂

Crabber math- if you have 5 workers and subtract 1 worker, the workload multiplies by 2 for the remaining 4 workers.

Is the narrator Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs?

This captain big chilling for a loss like that

The captain is a coward to make this a group conversation. Take responsibility and own it.

What good is it to fire someone while at sea? Wait 'till you get back to shore aye?

3:23: My thoughts exactly.

Lol around 5:20. He ate his boogies.

Lol "I hate to cut this short"

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.

-Captain has old degraded equipment -Fires the deckhand I am so smart! S-M-R-T!

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.

this guy things hes the protag - very goofy energy

What’d I’d do to be out there working hard and having fun.

If someone’s else’s problem becomes my problem I fix it. That’s a pretty g thing to say

$15,000 made the Crew reach the decision.

Deckhands sacked for not caring mostly do not care about being sacked, it is a cycle of not caring...

i couldn’t work with a booger eater .. that’s ehh idek..

Damn, being fired...by committee....on one of the most popular reality shows in the world....that's gotta hurt.

Ain't no cure for toxic! Cut bait never made more sense than here.

*y is it that dudes fault if only 3 of em had holes in em?*

I don’t understand what he meant by how he was messing up the pots? Can someone explain this to 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.

So curious does he still get paid after that happens? Not sure how that works.... just curious!

5:24 DID HE EAT A BOOGER??

If you don't work,you cost money for everyone.

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

Did anybody see where he picked his nose and ate it

Only 15k?! One of my engineers made a 25.7 million dollar mistake!

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.

Doesn't seem fair that the greenhorn gets blamed for an oversight as huge as that.

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

I'd have made him walk the plank

👍👍

Never hire a guy with a lip ring

Checks the strings, tells the captain all the crab pots are rotten, go's fishing anyway, what would be the point, failures all round

Sounds like there already picking up his slack so his not going to be noticed 😊

Instead of firing them they used to throw them overboard.

Are we just gonna ignore the fact this guy picked his nose and licked his finger?

Did that guy pick his nose and eat it????

what about other animals trying to get at the crabs for food? I would first assume a shark attcked the pods going after the crab or something before blaming a deckhand.. ALSO how come these pods weren't addressed the last time they came up with holes in them? Who put them on deck with holes in them without fixing them?