Captain Lee reams quite a few people out in his Below Deck blog this week. But three of them seem to be on the brink of getting that one way plane ticket. The captain seems to think Kate is just the greatest thing, which I think skews his opinion of some of the rest of the crew. Let’s look at what he says about Rocky, Dane and Leon.
Captain Lee’s thought on Rocky…
Rocky, it’s a crew meal. It’s what you wanted. How tough is that? You had plenty of notice, and you’re supposed to be a chef. I’m not buying that crap that it’s been so long since you have been in the kitchen, you forgot. Bullshit! Any first year culinary student can bake chicken so that it’s done and not raw (and over two hours late). It’s not that tough. I get it, you were trying to impress people, but doing your job correctly would be impressive at this point. (um, cooking is not her job. Apparently, ironing your shorts is. She may suck at ironing too, but she sings well!) Now, the situation with you and Emile is one of your own creation, similar to Frankestein. This is what you made, and now you don’t want to deal with it. So you’re going to try to deal with it by leaving him a note? A sit down, face-to-face, serious conversation would be more in order. Not on the fly, in passing, but a sit down conversation. If it gets to the point where it is affecting the boat performance overall, I will get involved and deal with it in my own fashion. Oh, and I still want to know what you see on the ceiling that the rest of us don’t.
I agree that the Emile thing is ridiculous. The captain reams out Emile as well but I think Rocky will be tossed overboard before Emile’s issues reach critical mass. Once Rocky is gone, Emile will get his head back in the game. Anyone know what that ceiling reference is all about?
Thought on Dane…
Dane, I am not sure of you yet, but for some reason, I don’t have a warm, fuzzy feeling about you. Can’t put my finger on it, but I’m willing to let it play out and see how things go. Getting out on that jet ski with your radios on was not the brightest thing you’ve done so far. Think it will serve you well to keep your head down, mouth shut, and learn and work your ass off. Oh and thanks for being a good sport about calibrating the radar. You took it well, and shows you may have a future after all. We shall see.
Dane was apparently hired because someone thought he was cute. I don’t. And he doesn’t seem to have a clue what he is doing. With Eddie’s mind back on shore, this could result in disaster.
About Leon…
Leon, why are you so unwilling to adapt to anything that doesn’t fit in anyone’s world but Leon’s? Oh and by the way is “yuz” a real word? “Yuz don’t want lunch.” If you insist on pretending that you are superior to the world, you should act it. First of all, Leon isn’t American, and his dialect will be different from Americans. He’s half British and half Jamaican and lives in Australia. Also, Yuz/Youse is a word if your from the Jersey Shore.
Communicating is two, count them, two people exchanging ideas, thoughts, whatever. That would be you and one other person, not one person talking to you and you arbitrarily saying no. Yes, and when the other person is pain in the ass Kate who talks down Leon like he works for her communication is not starting from a good place. Kate has a target every season and this year it is Leon. And Rocky.
It is becoming painfully obvious to me that charter work, being a team player, and getting along with your crew are not part of your vocabulary. I am not inclined to watch much more of you just arbitrarily throwing a wrench into things because the rest of the world in not conforming to your idea of how it should be. When the guests request something, it’s your job to see that they get it. Period, no bitching, it’s why you are here. Why put everyone around you on edge, because you are going to throw a hissy fit about doing your job.
Leon has owned and been executive chef at multiple restaurants. Currently, he owns a restaurant in Cairns that does quite well. He is well respected in his field and every single charter on this season has raved about his food. Unlike last season when everyone on the crew loved the chef but the charter guests were unhappy. Ben’s philosophy was pretty much make whatever he wanted and the guests better like it. And Kate covered for him A LOT.
You are extremely fortunate that I wasn’t there to witness your little tantrum. It’s called being prepared for whatever comes up, that’s what a charter chef (and you claim to be the best one ever) does, and does it with a smile.
Did the guests get what they want every single time? Yep. Did they love it? They did. Case closed.
I actually think Leon is ready to go home. He got some more publicity for his restaurant and being on board with a bunch of Americans kids has got to be annoying.
Does anyone else think Kate is at least part of the problem between these two?
I run into Ben quite often down here in FLL and Ben is NOT a nice person. At least not to me. Captain Lee eats at my husband’s restaurant often and my husband said he is really nice.
Since we know Leon leaves, I think the other two are Rocky (because she is bordering insane) and Emile. I wish it were Kate and I wish Adrienne would come back but she is successful cheffing right now.
There are a lot of Ben lovers out there in the blogosphere calling for his return. I thought he was witty some of the time especially during season 1. I’m sorry to hear, but not completely surprised, that he is not a nice person. Are there any examples you dare to share?
I’m actually friends with Adrienne and he knows that. The last time I ran into him I was at Hunters and said, “hey Ben!” and he told me to fuck off as he was walking by me.
I am quite fond of Adrienne myself.
I agree with you about Dane, but I like Kate. It took me a while to warm up to her, but I like her now. It would be hard to do her job, if you had Rocky, the harpie, as a subordinate and Leon, the dick, as an equal you had to deal with on a daily basis. Not to mention the handling the drunk guest’s requests. I saw Kate and Kelly on WWHL and she seemed pretty nice… bitchy resting face, but nice.
I think I meant Amy, not Kelly. Sorry. And yes, Captain Lee and Rocky’s eyes… funny.
TT are you kidding? In every interview rocky does she is STARING at the ceiling! That comment from Captain Lee is hilarious
That drives me crazy!!
Kate does her job which I more than those three do. Even Amy is on Kate’s side. Leon told her no he already shut down the kitchen and he wouldn’t have made the food if Kate had not insisted. He has been nasty to Kate since he introduced himself. Who shakes someones hand and asks if they are neat, then tells them to get him two pillows. He ordered Kate around like she was his personal maid, then sat around in his underwear while sharing a room with a woman. Nobody wants to see his balls. He called Connie a carpet muncher and a lesbian! He thinks the guests should eat on his schedule, and that is not how it works. Everyone loved Ben’s food, they complained about his timing. Emile doesn’t get fired, Dane does. He lied about his experience and season one Dave comes back.
I got a kick out of Captain Lee’s ceiling comment. Heck yes, Rocky is constantly rolling her eyes skyward in her talking heads!
The ceiling staring drives me insane. She won’t look anywhere but straight up in the air. I find her talking heads more annoying than her behavior, just because her eyes are anywhere but straight ahead.
I’m not kidding SMS. I don’t get to actually watch the show when I am recapping it. I listen to the talking heads as I type about what they are saying. I’ll pause to look next week though!
Oh wow, you won’t miss it. She does not look at the camera AT ALL. It’s just all up in the air, it’s F*CKING WEIRD.
It drives me insane. Her eyes are always rolling around in her head, up towards the ceiling. I think it’s because she’s not a truthful person. A big old phony for the camera.
Yes that’s what I put his comment down to. Another person who had a similarly annoying habit was Rachel Zoe. I don’t always get to see this show so can someone tell me what happened to that other blonde one that used to be on the show?
I agree Rocky has issues I think she needs meds…Eddie is acting nicer guess he judt had to get laid. I am eay disappointed in him because of that, he is smarter than to do that.
I was thinking it was just me at first but Rocky is CONSTANTLY looking up at what? Lights? A fly? Something shiny? Oh it drives me bat ass crazy!!!!!! Funny but crazy!!! Wonder what’s the most times she’s looked up during an episode lmbosnorrrrrrrt
Kate is always part of the problem. She badmouthed Leon to Emile and Leon overheard, realizing she feels his experience on a cruise ship is beneath work on a yacht and I think that is when his communication with Kate went downhill. Capt. Lee trusts Kate too much so his feelings are skewed in Kate’s favor (in spite of all the charter guests loving Leon’s food). The ceiling reference is that Rocky always looks up and to her right during her talking heads.
Leon’s bio says he has worked on yachts before. I think he mentioned working on the famous Cunard ship the QE II because he is British and most people who know the ship would be impressed by that, Kate, who is apparently an idiot doesn’t get it. She also seem unfamiliar with Australian straight male thought processes.
Yes, Leon is a chauvinistic, or what we used to call a man before men became pussified. Kate is a bitch. Amy may have decided to buddy up with Kate out of survival on the show, but if she really thinks Kate is the bees knees all the sudden, I don’t believe that.
90% of this is bullshit storyline. Anyone who has ever been a waitress and dealt with the kitchen knows that the kitchen is full of assholes. It’s your job to finesse them to get your orders right and get whatever extras you need for your table. You don’t get that by being a bitch.
I waitressed through high school and college and, yes, kitchen staff are nuts, even those that aren’t fancy and work at Holiday Inn. I remember 1 who picked up a big knife and glared at me because I put in a breakfast order when he was trying to switch over to lunch. The customers still had about 10 more minutes to legitimately order breakfast…I looked at him, apologized and said the customers were real assholes, I was around 18 and learned real fast to keep the chefs/cooks happy, it worked, he liked me after that (also, I’m a pretty sharp cookie and usually made his job easier).
I wonder how much of Leons’ attitude is a result of him feeling Kate is sabotaging him? It does seem that she can’t help but stir it up. I’d like to like her, but between her relentless targeting of people and the captains’ creepy crush on her, I can’t get there. The way she treated Amy last season was disgraceful. She really does seem jealous of people who are good at their jobs, as if any positive attention they get takes away from her.
Captain Lee said in an earlier blog he wanted to know what she was looking at on the ceiling. She’s always looking up in her interviews.
I have never seen what Captain Lee sees in Kate. She is very good at ass kissing though.
At first I didn’t like Leon but I’ve come around. I like it when he goes trash talks Kate. But he should realize that guest will request things at odd times.
Has any of the crew wonder why they are getting better tips this season? Either the producers set up the bigger tips or could Rocky’s personality and Leon’s cooking have something to do with it. I know I wouldn’t want to be trapped on a boat with Rocky, but she is fun crazy.
I feel sorry for Eddie. It sucks his girlfriend pulled this crap when he is away. I think Connie does a good job and the other two guys are just eye candy.
I guess that leaves just Amy with a level head doing her job professionally and with a smile.
I’m glad finally Kate has been exposed. I was beginning to think I was the only one who noticed that she tries to sabotage anyone else who might be good at their job. I guess so Captain Lee will only have accolades for her. She is quite self absorbed.
The fact that the captain so clearly favors Kate and overlooks her constant poking and trying to antagonize people while blaming everything on pretty much everyone and anyone else makes me dislike her more. Are they personal friends?
I love Kate as a tv character but she is a horrible co-worker. She’s even made me like Leon! I’m a little disappointed that Captain Lee has fallen for her schtick. Doesn’t he watch the show?
Hmmm, maybe she has some dirt on him and she’s holding it over his head and forcing him to make a complete fool of himself by pretending that anyone with the balls to stand up to her (or anyone she randomly decides to target) is in the wrong and she is in the right. He takes it to such an extreme, that he does indeed look like a fool.
I love Kate. She is witty, and as a chief stew she is professional and efficient. Guests on these charters want someone that is quietly efficient, not a new best friend. Notice that as the season wears on Amy is totally on her side with regards to both Leon and Rocky. I credit Kate for not putting him on blast….yet!
I cannot WAIT for Leon to leave. He has been rude and arrogant towards Kate since day one. He seems to have a sneering disregard for the charter guests who are paying his salary. He really doesn’t seem to understand how charters work, at least for a chef. He appears to be an amazing chef, but he really doesn’t seem very well suited for a job that requires a lot of flexibility. Maybe this feels like too much of a come down after running his own restaurant.
Leon got lucky that the guests who requested a Mexican fiesta enjoyed his “mexican pasta” dish. Plus, he lied and said he had served the conch the guests had caught. He was lucky one of them didn’t wander into the kitchen and find that conch still sitting in the sink. I can see why Kate would have been angry – especially since he hid the fact that she served the guests frozen conch!
I’m pretty sure Captain Lee has a very good idea of what is transpiring below deck, so I’m happy to follow his lead 🙂
I can’t like Kate yet even if I find her witty at times. I stll haven’t gotten over her treatment of Amy last season and she wouldn’t even apologize for it when given the chance to do so on WWHL this season. Amy is too professional and too nice to tell us what she really feels about Kate. Kate is good at her job in some ways but smiling with guests and getting along with the crew is part of her job and she fails miserably at those things.
Wow. Agreed with everything you said. ?
“It’s not that tough. I get it, you were trying to impress people, but doing your job correctly would be impressive at this point. (um, cooking is not her job).” That was his point. Instead of trying to impress the crew with her cooking, she should do the job she was hired for.
Leon has a point when stating Kate should ask the guests ahead of time if they want snacks or a meal. Kate’s response was she didn’t want to tell the guests what to do. Definitely a personality conflict. Wonder how many weeks Ben is on.
I found Ben grating. Leon, eh, he’s okay. Agree that he feels that being on call is beneath him. He’s just a bad fit in this setting.
Kate’s toned it down a bit this season. Can’t argue that she seems efficient and good at her job.
Agree, TT, about Dane’s looks. He’s average at best. Don’t see the appeal there.
I LOVE Kate. I love her sarcasm, and her opinions of everyone (the crew and the guests) are always on point.
If Rocky leaves, that will be the highlight of the whole season. You can tell her parents praised her for everything, even when she was wrong. She has literally wreaked havoc in every department. She doesn’t do anything well, and she can’t even handle ironing. I take that back- her dive, in the diving competition, was pretty impressive.
Rocky is one of those girls who is a total tease and leads every guy on, even if she doesn’t like them. (Maybe it’s an insecurity thing?) Then it makes it awkward for every other female who wants to hook up, because Rocky has left her mark on all of the guys.
And don’t even get me started on her audience on the ceiling. Seriously, why is she always looking up when she does her interviews? I couldn’t stand Adrienne during season 1, but I would take her over Rocky ANY DAY.
As for Ben- he always seemed pretty arrogant (I imagine he’s the kind of person who only has pretty friends), but I definitely prefer him to Leon. Leon might be a nice guy in real life, but yachting clearly isn’t for him. He’s not a very “go with the flow” kind of guy.
Rocky belongs in musical theater, not a charter yacht.
Leon doesn’t actually own that restaurant anymore. I think he’s unemployed, as his twitter said he was looking for “business opportunities” after he said his restaurant is no more.
Rocky looks straight at the camera when she’s being herself. When she’s looking at the birds circling her head, that’s when she’s trying to be crazy or zany or cute or sexy or whatever she thinks would fit the situation, except herself. She has to actually think about how to act which is probably why she looks away (people look away when they are thinking, which is why liars often do it because they are formulating their lie). She doesn’t have to think ahead when she’s being herself.
When is Captain Lee going to watch, and listen with his own eyes and ears, how nasty LEON is to Kate? I don’t think she is wrong, she’s doing what the guests want. Captain Lee should have a one on one with Kate like he did with Leon and let her tell him how nasty rotten Leon is. What a catty bunch! BTW, Captain Lee should watch the show when he is not at work, whenever that is.
Seriously? Do you watch the show? Captain Lee is totally on Kate’s side. As he is regardless of who her target it each season.
Yes, seriously, I watch every episode and clearly think Rocky could give a sh*t about the people who charter. What was with the moldy box that ahole needed so bad? Another thing was when Kate asked Leon what he was drying and he he wouldn’t tell her but he jumped at the chance to tell Emile and make that crack about only certain people caring.
Rocky should get off her back and do her job too.
Kate does a good job. Rocky is a troublemaker. She keeps looking up at the ceiling when she talks. She’s trouble and needs to go.
I want to add that Kate has standards of excellence and does a fine job of taking care of everyone. She’s a keeper. Rocky is immature and undisciplined.
Leon is totally an antagonist, totally disrespectful and rude. Rocky and Leon both treat the charter season like it’s their vacation. You can tell Leon doesn’t care and has not at all listened to what the guests want. A guest asked for no rabbit, he served rabbit, a guest asked for protein shakes, he ordered ensure, a guest said they didn’t like the scallops, he basically said they were idiots. I’m shocked Captain Lee didn’t fire him earlier…Leon has even threatened Kate…”be careful”. That there would have been enough for me to can his ass. Kate seems like she has targets on people because this is her career and she takes it very seriously. I can totally understand targeting people who use your career as their personal mini vacation and half ass the work they are hired to do. Leon is lucky he has managed to make guests enjoy his food, I’d venture a guess that it’s by the skin of his teeth. Rocky is just crazy and deserves to be fired. Her laugh alone would cause me to go crazy.
Yeah, it’s probably just dumb luck that every single charter has raved about his food. Too bad Ben never had that kind of luck in his seasons. Remember that time he tore up the kitchen because the guests didn’t like his foam and foo foo molecular bullshit? Good times.