On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Kelly St. Clair <kellys@efn.org> wrote:
> Rapidly approaching the threshold of (take your pick):
>
> * Cartoonish evil/disregard for the comfort of one's "servants"
> * Only being able to get slaves or robots as crew (and since the 3I outlaws
> slavery, "MyMines" notwithstanding...)
> * Mutiny and/or spacing of the inbred prat
> * Failure of suspension of disbelief

Humph...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_Deck

I'll admit to having seen only 2 episodes of this show, but the
differences between crew quarters and Passenger Staterooms in it is
what inspired my comments.

Let's take a look at a _real_ Yacht for a minute
http://www.capricornyacht.com/specs-decks/

See those comments about the 4 Staterooms? King size beds with walk
around, walk in closets?
Those are decks 2 and 3, and the center of deck 4.
Crew quarters are those 4 little rooms in the bow of deck 4.
4 little rooms... and 8 crew.

So, yeah, the 8 crew are in a volume of about 2 of the smaller
passenger staterooms.
They're in the bow, where there's more wave action.

I don't think I was _that_ out of line on the situation.

Someone else made the comment about slipping into the pool when the
boss is asleep - there's that.
Friend of mine works for Norwegian cruise lines as one of the 2
network engineers on the ship. He's listed as the lowest level officer
rating you can get, but officers get access to passenger ameneties, so
he gets the same awesome food, pool , etc when off-shift.
He also has zero expenses for 10 months out of the year (other 2
months ship is in refit) so it works pretty well.