Incident Report -- 19/10/2465

[Omicega]

Reporting Personnel: 
Maria Faraci

Job Title of Reporting Personnel: 
Engineer

Game ID:
cqm-cfSY

Personnel Involved:
- Maria Faraci, Engineer -- Victim

- Reem Faladay, Atmospheric Technician -- Offender
- Suii Yuieez, Warden -- Offender

Secondary Witnesses: 
None that I want to call.

Real Time:
~15:00-17:00 GMT, 19/10/2023

Location of Incident:
SCCV Horizon -- main elevator & engineering department

Nature of Incident:
[ ] - Workplace Hazard
[ ] - Accident/Injury
[ ] - Destruction of Property
[ ] - Neglect of Duty
[X] - Harassment
[ ] - Assault
[X] - Misconduct
[] - Other

Overview of the Incident:
On a recent shift with myself and technician Faladay alone in engineering, I decorated the elevator with the Callistean flag (and attached ASSN ensign) after setting up the ship's reactor for a high-power, experimental output which requires frequent oversight. While this was ongoing, technician Faladay made clear her intention to modify the standard thruster setup of the vessel, but failed to provide me with a written consent form as per standard ship procedure:

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All non-structural forms of modification, optimization, or upgrades to vessel equipment are permitted so long as the modifying engineer is qualified and has obtained written permission of all staff resident to the department in question. Large-scale structural modifications or additions require written and stamped consent from either the Chief Engineer, the Captain, or (in the absence of both) a delegated representative of Command staff. 

This is a violation of standard operating procedure, and I did not offer even verbal consent. Even if the modification in question wasn't considered to be 'large-scale' (and I would argue it is), I was never formally consulted regarding these modifications.

Not long thereafter, the same technician and others began harassing me for my elevator decorations, demanding to know who painted it and thereafter decrying it as 'vandalism' and 'graffiti' and attempting to have it removed. I refused and stated my case for my refusal -- warden Yuieez initially provided verbal assent to this and agreed to drop the matter, but was later once again incited into trying to pursue a vandalism charge and removal of the artwork in question by crew. I can only assume they succumbed to peer pressure in this regard, and despite my efforts to prevent the removal within the boundaries of ship regulations, my refusal to cave to this harassment was sabotaged by a necessary period of SSD in a quieter corner of the ship, during which a paint gun was eventually recovered by the pair and put to use wiping the elevator clean.

Upon waking, I asked another officer, a generation-three Havoc unit with serial number 486F726, if I had been formally charged with any violation (of which I would not have been aware due to suffering from SSD at the time), to which it replied 'no'. My permanent record also remains clean, so I am at least not asking for any mistaken charges to be struck from my record as warden Yuieez did not overstep himself in this regard, at least.

However, in light of not being charged with any formal violation, I contend that I am the victim of harassment carried out by means of warden Yuieez taking it upon himself to distract me from my ongoing, experimental work on the INDRA over the trivial matter of artwork he and others took a personal dislike to. I would like the matter to go to higher arbitration by Internal Affairs and for a proper charge to be levied against me if deemed necessary; otherwise, I claim undue harassment and misconduct on behalf of warden Yuieez in addition to the regulatory violations already claimed against technician Faladay.

Submitted Evidence:
I don't have a recorder at hand most shifts and no paperwork was filled out by anyone involved. I am happy to be interviewed to give my side of events in further detail.

Would you like to be personally interviewed?: 
[X] - Yes
[ ] - No

Did you report it to a Head of Staff or a superior? If so, who? If not, why?:
No, because there were no heads of staff or superiors available for the duration of the entire shift. I don't consider bridge crew to fall into that category and did not try appealing to them -- one was a corporate synthetic and the other was apparently close to one of the offenders, anyway, so I would not have trusted either to arbitrate.

Actions taken:
I tried reasoning with the warden as detailed earlier, but they later became uncooperative and unwilling to back down once I refused to acknowledge their warning as unfitting due to the lack of any regulatory breach. This is, in my experience, quite common with on-board security when left without appropriate oversight by a head of department.

Additional Notes:
With precious few exceptions, staff on this shift banded together in a show of bullying, harassment, and obvious prejudice against Solarian crew that I have rarely seen even in the worst of the Horizon's trouble with rogue elements of the Alliance military. I am only highlighting the two most visible offenders in this particular instance of petty instigation.

[NM_]

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TO: Maria Faraci, Engineer, SCCV Horizon

FROM: Human Resources, AMS, NTCC Odin

SUBJECT: RE: Incident Report

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BODY:

This is an automated message to inform you that your incident report has been received and placed in a queue for the HR Division to review.

If necessary, you will be contacted by an HR Assistant when an investigation begins.

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DTG: 19-14:35-TAU CETI STANDARD-10-2465

SIGN: AMS

Edited October 19, 2023 by NM_

[NM_]

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TO: Maria Faraci, Engineer, SCCV Horizon

FROM: Human Resources, AMS, NTCC Odin

SUBJECT: RE: Incident Report

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BODY:

This is an automated message to inform you that an investigation has now been opened regarding your incident report, and assigned to Marshal Simmons (Comrade Batman).

You may be contacted by the HR Assistant for an interview, or you may contact them directly if you have any questions.

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DTG: 25-15:22-TAU CETI STANDARD-10-2465

SIGN: AMS

 

Edited October 25, 2023 by NM_

[NM_]

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TO: Maria Faraci, Engineer, SCCV Horizon

FROM: Marshal Simmons, AMS, NTCC Odin

SUBJECT: RE: Incident Report

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BODY:

The investigation of this incident has concluded, and appropriate action has been taken for affected individuals. 

This matter will now be considered resolved.

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DTG: 09-23:00-TAU CETI STANDARD-11-2465

SIGN: Marshal Simmons, Human Resources Assistant, Department of Human Resources

 

Edited November 10, 2023 by NM_