Add (limited) assignment laptops to each head of staff office

[Guest]

To preface: In almost every single case in which demotion is required to discipline an employee, there's always a massive backlog that prevents reassignments from getting done in a productive, quick yet efficient fashion while also allowing for proper documentation to be filed to prove such an action of reassignment occurred within the legal rights of corporate regulation and procedure.

This is simply not acceptable for streamlined station operation, and the spare ID should not have to be used as a crutch for such minor issues.

As mentioned, the above ideal scenario is an incredibly difficult one to realize, especially what with the fact that a head of staff cannot a.) be everywhere at once or b.) be confined to their office the whole round. Heads of staff are required in almost every extent to be involved in their own department affairs. This leads to busybody productive heads of staff being unable to fill out the necessary forms in critical situations in which a task needs done and a crew member needing booted out of a department to prevent further hampering of department efforts.

I thusly propose that every head of staff be given a crew reassignment laptop with similar functionality to that of the guest pass consoles: You can only grant access to a person that you personally have (so as to allow for special circumstance bridge bodyguards in emergencies, or bridge assistants in absence of a HoP/captain, etc), you can only assign personnel to lesser department positions that answer to you, and you may only demote personnel from your console that belong to your specific department. HoS can't demote an engie, for instance.

Furthermore, the interface for the laptop should also include a confirmation button to ensure the assignments are made not unlike a save button, but with the added functionality of popping out a Confirmation of Reassignment paper with all the important details relating to the assignment, what access was granted to whom, when it was granted, and why it was granted. The button naturally also requires both the ID and corresponding head of staff stamp (the latter of which would be scanned on the laptop as an IC explanation to it) to confirm such an assignment. Heads of staff are expected to fill out those fields in the computer UI to a brief but specific extent.

I very much consider this a high priority suggestion as it would greatly increase the effectiveness of command operation and help out the little guys that just want a new job to do shit without having to wait half an hour because of how bloated the full correct procedure can be. Doing the right thing should not be so punishing on time as it is.

[Nanako]

Seems good

One tiny possible problem I see is potential dissonance between access n a department.

Did you know that paramedics have maintenance access, but the chief medical officer does not?

How would we handle that?

[Guest Complete Garbage]

Please do this. To save on space, could we integrate employment records laptops(with the exception of the IAA's) with this feature? Or just make a new laptop for it, but add employment record read/write functionality so we have it take the same amount of space in the offices?

Regardless of how it's implemented, I think it's something that would improve quality of life for heads of staff everywhere.

[Guest]

Seems good

One tiny possible problem I see is potential dissonance between access n a department.

Did you know that paramedics have maintenance access, but the chief medical officer does not?

How would we handle that?

 

Most likely just change access for every head of staff to have maint access. Certain portions of maint have a maintenance access requirement but also another department specific related one that would end up barring access to them.

[DatBerry]

I actually really like this idea, though it might take away from the HoPs main workload, but that can help them focus on their own civilian and cargo departments that are often overlooked, not mention being the captain's right hand.

I think the HoP should be less about "job change dude" and does more supervision on his own departments. (Not that the HoP is ever busy)

In normal SOP times when a HoP is available their stamp can be used to make demotion papers more valid or process the demotion/promotion instead of the other head if they're busy.

[SierraKomodo]

Seems good

One tiny possible problem I see is potential dissonance between access n a department.

Did you know that paramedics have maintenance access, but the chief medical officer does not?

How would we handle that?

 

That feels more like an oversight to me. The CMO doesn't have maint access, while the HOP and RD do?

[Guest]

Bump.

[Fire and Glory]

I give this my support.

At least once I have called for an incompetent staff member's demotion but due to me and the HoP both being busy, it just never happens, Heads of Staff should have control over their own departments.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I support this. While it would cut out a little bit of the HoP's workload there is still the question of inter-departmental job changes, or any general astericks having it be sent the HoPs way.

[Guest]

I'm very against this. The point of the Head or Personnel is to ensure that command as a whole has knowledge on any ID change done. This would lead to people going to the relevant head for acces to that specific department instead of the HOP, and would make paperwork fall through the cracks even more. If this became a thing, I wouldn't play Head of Personnel ever again, and Id have to get even stricter on paperwork enforcement as captain.