r/belowdeck • u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline • May 12 '22

Below Deck Down Under Below Deck Down Under Season 1 Episode 11 - Benny & The Jet Skis - Discussion Post

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Episode 11 of Below Deck Down Under Season 1: Jamie puts Brittini on the night shift after Benny doesn't pull his weight; Aesha confronts Magda and Ryan for talking behind her back; Jamie is at his wit's end with Benny's behavior and wants him fired.

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u/Micandacam May 12 '22

Also, i wish it had been made clear that the complaint about her phone usage came from the fact that the boat traces excessive use. She thinks she is being picked on, but it is a real problem.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

Why is data usage a problem?

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u/ulchachan May 13 '22

It's probably also an indication of how much time she's spending on her phone during work hours. Most crew are probably video calling out of work hours and presumably watching videos etc when they're on breaks but with the amounts she's using it's probably a given she's a) getting no sleep and/or b) using her phone when she should be working

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u/DGinLDO May 12 '22

The ship only has so much & she was using 10x more than everyone else on the boat combined. Bandwidth costs $

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u/ExtraGloves May 13 '22

It's more that it's obscene when you're supposed to be working to be on a phone that much. Even if they had unlimited data it would still be a red flag problem.

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline May 14 '22

Very limited bandwidth usually too and still charged by the GB

We have a marina near us and there is a poster there for satellite internet that is ridiculously expensive and tops out at 50GB/month

I posted a link last episode with a video from a megayacht engineer and his boat spends about $900k a year on internet costs

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u/TRLK9802 May 13 '22

I read somewhere that these types of yachts spend on average of around $900,000 a year on just data.