Most people take jobs without being willing to do them properly.
He's been a shoddy captain for years and it's been allowed to pass. I'm afraid the buck stops further up the chain of British-American Carnival Corporation.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 12:08, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

The CEO should have been counting the passengers off?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 12:10, Reply)

If you have an incompetent as captain of a £400 million pound vessel you really need to be off to that room of mirrors.
A number of stories circulating point to a dunce being given the keys.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 12:24, Reply)

He has said he tripped and fell into the life boat.
Surely a captain is qualified by international maritime bodies?

He looks like an idiot.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 12:32, Reply)

You have a point
Gazing round this IT department I can see a shit-load of folk who have promoted into jobs that they can't cope with.

However there is a difference between keeping a ship afloat and it's passengers safe, and keeping a website running.

The captain has to bear the brunt, but the idiots that felt him worthy of such a responsible position also have to get it right up 'em.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 18 Jan 2012, 12:20, Reply)

He was given the job because he had a hat with Captain written on it in crayon.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 12:38, Reply)