What does Megan do Onboard??

Hello Family,

As request from my sweet little brother who OBVIOUSLY does not listen to ANYTHING I say, I will let you know what I do onboard the Sea Princess (and Tom now you have no reason now not to know because you can read it anytime someone asks you). O.k. so currently I am a Junior Assistant Purser which is a half stripe officer ranking onboard Princess Cruises. As a JAP we can rotate around and do quite a few different jobs. At the moment I am the Hotel Secretary. I work as the assistant to the Passenger Services Director (Hotels Manager) and the First Purser Administration. I have a lovely office with a big window so I can look at my surroundings all day (which is the major perk to my job). As Hotel Secretary I take care of all of the clerical work for the PSD and FPAD, I handle all VIPs onboard, I liase with the Captain and Staff Captain to co-ordinate Bridge Visits for Passengers and Sailaway Bridge Visits for the Red Level VIPs. I create the ship Food and Events Schedule for each cruise and liase with all Department Heads to ensure all of their activities are planned properly. I grade all passenger questionnaire that come in at the end of every cruise to evaluate the overall score for the ship. I take care of offloading all ship to shore packages and sorting and distributing all mail and packages coming onboard. I attend all cocktail, VIP and Most Travelled Pax parties. I organize the C.R.U.I.S.E. Committee which is the service credo onboard. I take all minutes from all ship meetings. Also above that I am also Crew Club Secretary, meaning I take all minutes from that meeting and because the Crew Club president and Vice Presidents onboard don't know how to organize events, I organize all crew activities and events. When my job doesn't keep me busy, I help the Crew Office with new crew sign on on turnaround day and I help the Tour Desk with Tour Dispatch (all of which is part of the Pursers Department). And finally I do crowd control when we arrive into ports late. I organize passengers into lines and sort them off the gangway so there is no caos. I also dispatch other crew members to stand in certain areas to keep pax moving in an orderly fashion.

So I hope this explains just how DAMN important I am on this ship! ha haha.

Love you all, can't wait to come home. I'm exhausted!