In a new preview for Season 5, Episode 7 of Below Deck Sailing Yacht, deckhand Emma Crouch's job performance is called into question — and she's not entirely sure why.
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Watch Below Deck Sailing Yacht on Bravo on Monday, October 7 at 9/8c and next day on Peacock. Catch up on the Bravo app.
The video above shows charter guests having some fun in the sun as Emma stands on board Parsifal III watching them. When a guest notes he needs a towel after an outdoor shower, Gary King hands it to him and then walks over to Emma.
"Are you happy to be here?" he asks. When Emma answers, "Yeah," he asks if she's "sure" about that.
"I just, to be honest with you, I see a lot of a lack of urgency around everywhere," Gary continues. "A lot of waiting around and watching us work."
Seemingly shocked to hear this, Emma asks for some examples, and Gary brings up a moment from the previous charter when fellow deckhand Keith Allen put a floating dock in the water as Emma was "watching him."
"Now I'm going in there putting the shower on, helping them out, giving them towels," continues Gary. "And you're just standing there looking around."
Emma Crouch Reacts to Claims About Her Job Performance
Emma's response to Gary's claims is that she thought the guests could see the towels themselves. "I didn't realize that ... " she begins before Gary continues.
"If I ask you to do things [and] you're like, 'No, I can't do it,' and then you go for a coffee and then it's a cigarette, and then it's another coffee, and then it's inside," her boss replies as photos of Emma in these situations flash onscreen, although she says she doesn't drink coffee.
"It just seems to me there's no sense of urgency," he concludes. "I mean, I don't know if you want to carry on working on yachts after this. But, I mean, it seems like you don't really want to be there."
Emma, for her part, says she thinks it's "unfair" that all of this is being put on her — especially since it seems to be coming out of the blue.
"You've had no feedback to give me, and then all of a sudden you've got all this feedback that dates back? It's a bit sh-tty," she says. "And it's really f-cking hard to improve when all you see is a snapshot."
In the end, Emma says she'll listen to the feedback and try to be more urgent when it comes to helping guests and her teammates. But that doesn't mean she likes how the conversation went down.
"This is absolute bullsh-t," she says to herself after walking away.
So, how will this unfold? You'll have to tune into Below Deck Sailing Yacht on Monday, November 18 to find out. Episodes stream the next day on Peacock.
