Sig Hansen of Deadliest Catch is kind of a jackass. AND everyone is eager to work for him because in an extremely well paid industry, his boat consistently pays more because they catch more because he knows what the hell he's doing.
Some other captain let his son put away the nets at the end of the fishing season and then couldn't FIND them at the start of the next season. It's an expensive mistake and presumably not something Sig would do.
AND also in a very deadly profession, Sig Hansen wasn't getting people killed.
So you were pretty fucking confident you would make it home alive and your pockets would be fatter than that of other fishermen in an already well-paid profession. Even if nothing was working that season and he said "We aren't moving again. We're staying right here and grinding."
This is why people would roll their eyes and groan when he made the hard calls they didn't like and didn't understand but they continued working for him.
He was trying to quit smoking at one point and then like a storm rolled in or something and he was like "I picked a bad time to stop smoking" and before the night was up, he was lighting up again. Because like A Real Man TM, he makes the hard calls and puts at least some portion of the hardship on himself rather than shafting everyone else for personal comfort and personal gain.
He's tough to work for and tougher on himself than on the crew and he makes the decisions he makes because he knows stuff about the real world other Captains don't know. About the ocean and the life forms in it he's trying to capture for fun and profit and the weather and the market and heck if I know what all.
I put up with people like Sig Hansen who know shit I don't know and get shit done though I don't like or understand the answer.
I don't put up with abusive assholes who just LIKE hurting me and want to point to things other people do and pretend "He did this same shit to you and you were loyal to him".
If that's what you REALLY think happened, you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. But you probably don't REALLY think that. You're probably some abusive asshole who knows you're an abusive asshole and this is a bullshit justification for abusive behavior because that's just how you roll and I guess some people fall for this shit?
No, he didn't actually do what you are saying he did and you aren't some crazy-making highly competent genius getting shit done that no one else knows how to do.
You are merely a pathetic loser sadist REFUSING to sort your shit and doubling down on wanting to hurt me and insisting I should be okay with that.
Footnotes
I haven't seen Deadliest Catch in years. My kids used to watch it a LOT, so this post is based on a conversation I had with my kids.
If you are going "That's not true AT ALL about Sig Hansen." -- oops?
It's an anecdote in support of a point I want to make. No I can't be arsed to try to fact check it.
I don't even know Sig Hansen. How the hell am I supposed to figure out what's actually TRUE about the man and what's PR bullshit to further TV ratings?