When I worked for NCL America on the Pride of America we were getting ready to make way out of the dry dock in Bremerhaven and taking on all sorts of company big wigs. Me and another guy were on the bullshit task of sweeping the entire cargo hallway or whatever it’s called (big hallway that went from the fire to aft of the ship to make moving goods brought on board easier) and a bunch of dudes in business suits come onboard. One of them starts talking to us while they were all waiting for the porters and grabs a broom to help for a while.

The porters come and take everyone to their cabins, dude helping us sweep apologizes and takes off with the others. Immediately after he leaves the area, our direct supervisor runs over yelling at us. “What’s your problem? Why are you making the CEO do your jobs?!” To which we had to explain he just started doing it himself, but also we were kinda shocked that guy was the CEO of the entire company.

My direct supervisor was kind of an ass. But the captain of the ship was cool and so was the CEO.