Aaron Hughes's Head of Staff Application

[Aaron J. Hughes]

BYOND key: aaron-j-hughes

Character names:

• Aaron Hughes

• Rick Sato

• Marcel Hummington

• Maes Bradley

• C.A.S.E. (AI)

• C.A.S.E. Junior (Cyborg)

How long have you been playing on Aurora?: A solid 7 months with one month interval.

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: I often rotate between the Security department and playing as the Station AI. While I enjoy my time as AI and believe I am relatively competent, I feel as though nothing beats being the 'boots on the ground'. I enjoy command roles, which is reflected in my choices to run a Gaming Community in the past and having leadership roles in Military Simulations games (ArmA & Squad). I believe that Security requires a Head of Department that is able to rapidly adapt to and decisively counter the threats that often work their way into gameplay. I believe that my experience in leadership and my experience on Space Station 13 make me a suitable candidate.

Why did you come to Aurora?: To actually properly roleplay on SS13.

Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: Yes, I have.

Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each.

Give a definition of what you think roleplay is, and should be about:

Role playing is, in the most basic iteration, allowing a person to 'play' as another person, in a 'role'. In this, players are given the ability to create a character that resembles themselves or is the polar opposite. The interactions of this character, although controlled by a user, should be considered entirely separate and treated as 'part of the game' (as long as established rules are not being broken). For example, a character may choose to attack another character verbally or physically, but this is not a reflection of the two users outside of the 'fourth wall'. Friends could, and do, have characters that are enemies; users that don't get on out-of-game are expected to treat their character as a separate entity and work with them as such.

I believe the core structures of roleplay should be built around individual characters and their relationships, but also the underlying story or 'objectives' that take place. This means that allowances should be made to further progress the story and for it to be driven by users.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?: To improve the fun and experience people receive in the game, this includes guiding new comers on how to play the game and explain the mechanics to them. It is imperative that a new comer feels welcomed to whatever department they join so they do not feel alienated from the game. This extends to a head of staff's own knowledge of the game and can be the difference between someone enjoying the game and feeling immersed as opposed to feeling frustrated should the game's learning curve getting the better of them.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?:

The whitelisted roles are the roles that hold the most responsibilities (besides staff), people are specifically selected to be allowed select a role that has the power to change a round's outcome completely, as they are commanders of the station, being properly capable of doing such action and do it in a way that people enjoy on how the outcome is being changed is a major responsibility that one holds. Alongside their responsibility in running a department efficiently is also a major factor, giving certain orders should always be done in the way that the player enjoys on what he is doing.

My way of upholding this responsibility would be adapting new ways of creating a more diverse but fun experience in such department, having people actually do something and assign them to tasks that you would normally not assign them to is a way to prevent people from getting bored and going SSD.

Please pick one of your characters for this section, and provide well articulated responses to the following questions.

Character name: Aaron Hughes

Character age: Fourty Five (45)

Please provide a short of this character (approx 2 paragraphs):

Aaron was born on the planet Earth in the Sol system into an average, middle class family. He lived a quiet normal life which bolstered his longing for a more exciting way of life. As he came into his later teens he decided to enlist in the Sol Alliance's military. He began his military career at the bottom of the ladder, slowly working through the academic and instructional training given to him there which taught him discipline and order. This intense 3 years of military service changed his personality and character forging him into an authoritarian believing order and stability to hold greater importance over all else. After some time watching the political landscape of the Sol Alliance, Aaron decided to resign from his military career in order to enroll at K.U.L to gain a bachelors degree in political science. After his graduation he began seeking employment, it wasn't long before he came across advertisements showing the rewards and benefits of taking on a career with the NanoTrasen corporation. He sent off an application and soon found himself as a cadet learning aboard one of the numerous stations under NanoTrasen authority.

His training eventually finished and he was awarded the position of Security Officer, this would be his bread and butter for many years. Moving from station to station. At the age of 35 he applied for the position of Warden, along with a small pay rise and a nice office it was the perfect opportunity for Aaron to begin refining his leadership and team work skills. He learned how to manage his team's equipment, the process of paperwork and procedure as well as occasionally teaching new cadets how to use their equipment effectively. He had server under several Security commanders in his time, often finding himself shadowing them in order to learn more about how to properly co-ordinate a security shift. It wasn't until some time after turning 45 that Aaron decided that he may have what it takes to become a Head of Security, he began by taking on small shifts as an interim head of staff, learning the roles and responsibilities of a security commander. After performing well in this role he gathered all the paperwork required and submitted an application.

What do you like about this character?:

I like Hughes of how I developed him into having certain personality traits and decision making skills that I reflect him with. Being a basic character that will mainly help out anyone that requires it makes him kind. In every situation he will do what correct is, rarely overstepping his boundaries and mainly thinking with logical solutions will never stop him with doing of what is correct.

What do you dislike about this character?:

That with the fact that he is kind and thinks logically, that it is possible to trick him when the cards are played correctly, rendering him useless.

What do you think makes this character fit to be a head of staff?:

As I have mainly played with this character on the server, having the last couple of months only playing as a warden and gaining certain promotions along the way to Interim Head of Security or generally placed in charge when certain crisis situations arise he seems fit for the task on taking on the Head of Staff role. Having checked and asked a lot on how to improve IC and OOC and getting multiple reactions giving me a proper view on how to move this character forward into the Head of Staff whitelist.

 

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Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions.

How would you rate your own roleplaying?:

I would rate my roleplay 8/10.

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Extra notes:

None.

Edited September 21, 2017 by Guest

[MO_oNyMan]

I didn't feel very welcome in the ISD as a cadet after getting 15 minutes in brig and a requested demotion for switching out of my uniform. The comments accompanying that process were even less supportive of the app, Could be just a bad day for you, but that's a -1 from me since it was the only highlight involving Hughes i remember

[Aaron J. Hughes]

I didn't feel very welcome in the ISD as a cadet after getting 15 minutes in brig and a requested demotion for switching out of my uniform. The comments accompanying that process were even less supportive of the app, Could be just a bad day for you, but that's a -1 from me since it was the only highlight involving Hughes i remember

I am sorry but, I simply cannot agree with that statement of not feeling very welcome. As a cadet you can be commanded around by Officers, you disobeyed a direct order twice not from me but by another Officer to then get my support. If you did not comply with the standard regulations as a security member, we had no other option but to fill in a demotion request and brig time as you were clearly not interested in helping the security staff.

[MO_oNyMan]

I didn't feel very welcome in the ISD as a cadet after getting 15 minutes in brig and a requested demotion for switching out of my uniform. The comments accompanying that process were even less supportive of the app, Could be just a bad day for you, but that's a -1 from me since it was the only highlight involving Hughes i remember

I am sorry but, I simply cannot agree with that statement of not feeling very welcome. As a cadet you can be commanded around by Officers, you disobeyed a direct order twice not from me but by another Officer to then get my support. If you did not comply with the standard regulations as a security member, we had no other option but to fill in a demotion request and brig time as you were clearly not interested in helping the security staff.

 

If a third party (CCIA) proves me wrong i will lift the -1 since it's quite like me to be vindictive for no apparent reason. However that whole situation was one huge mess. The comments, the disregard for cadets, the holding after the sentence was up. A commander should be able to deal with any situation smoothly as it's arguably the most difficult roles, most of all if the situation is so default, and the handling was anything but smooth

[Aaron J. Hughes]

I didn't feel very welcome in the ISD as a cadet after getting 15 minutes in brig and a requested demotion for switching out of my uniform. The comments accompanying that process were even less supportive of the app, Could be just a bad day for you, but that's a -1 from me since it was the only highlight involving Hughes i remember

I am sorry but, I simply cannot agree with that statement of not feeling very welcome. As a cadet you can be commanded around by Officers, you disobeyed a direct order twice not from me but by another Officer to then get my support. If you did not comply with the standard regulations as a security member, we had no other option but to fill in a demotion request and brig time as you were clearly not interested in helping the security staff.

 

If a third party (CCIA) proves me wrong i will lift the -1 since it's quite like me to be vindictive for no apparent reason. However that whole situation was one huge mess. The comments, the disregard for cadets, the holding after the sentence was up. A commander should be able to deal with any situation smoothly as it's arguably the most difficult roles, most of all if the situation is so default, and the handling was anything but smooth

 

I understand your point, and I will not argue away your opinion. But in the case, as a Warden I do not have the authority to properly demote you, there was a form filled out and a HoS that looked into it, but on the moment when it was handed, the station was in a crisis, the only thing we could do to not let the situation get out of hand is having a cadet that is not interested in assisting security in anyway, which caused you to be locked up for 15 minutes. I do not properly recall the entire situation, but during that time your ID was also lost and more at the end of the round all the information was given about the ID loss, etc. But all points straightened out, I do agree that in that moment, mostly everything around what was happening, was a mess. Thanks for the opinion.

[TheSmiley]

I support the shit out of this man.

He's doing a great job, 100% sure Hughes will be a great Head of Staff.

[Azande]

In regards to the -1 up there, both sides are kind of right (Head Whitelistee and HoS of three years here)

The Head of Security would be expected to resolve the issue in a smoother manner, and it is important for a Head of Security to foster a sense of team-work and belonging for all members of security (you are literally ride or dies, you life depends on one another 90% of the time)

In the same vein, a Security Cadet MUST follow the orders of Security Officers, and if they are in the Brig, the Warden. Per Uniform Regulations, you must be in your uniform if you are primary security personnel (officers, warden, cadet, HoS), and investigate must wear security badges if out of provided uniforms. Being ordered to wear your uniform IS valid, refusing to follow this order is failure to execute an order.

If there was a Head of Staff on, however - the best action would have been simply to request this head explain to the Cadet that they have to wear their uniform, rather than request a demotion for them. Cadets are learning roles, do not expect them to know regulations 100%.

I'm not going to support nor disapprove of this for now, you should consider joining the SCCN in the meantime.

[DatBerry]

I'm ganna have to go with a big -1 right now, Aaron is more often than not, borderlining shitcurity and incompetence, the most often incident is leaving crewmembers bucklecuffed because they're troublesome, they'll eventually get out of it, and have cuffs which would justify him tazing them. more often than not they help prisoners escalate their punishments till it's a HUT, whether by sheer incompetence or advanced baiting tactics, the outcome is the same, anyone mildly bald who gets brigged is antagonized into getting a HUT, I've yet to see you try and befriend inmates or do your job above average.

as noted, the cadet incident could've went way better, if they are on break they aren't on duty, then they're not forced to wear uniform as long as they don't carry firearms, which they usually don't. You can't order someone to not have a break, or to cut their break unless they've taken the whole shift off or there's an emergency.

[Aaron J. Hughes]

I'm ganna have to go with a big -1 right now, Aaron is more often than not, borderlining shitcurity and incompetence, the most often incident is leaving crewmembers bucklecuffed because they're troublesome, they'll eventually get out of it, and have cuffs which would justify him tazing them. more often than not they help prisoners escalate their punishments till it's a HUT, whether by sheer incompetence or advanced baiting tactics, the outcome is the same, anyone mildly bald who gets brigged is antagonized into getting a HUT, I've yet to see you try and befriend inmates or do your job above average.

as noted, the cadet incident could've went way better, if they are on break they aren't on duty, and they're not forced to wear uniform as long as they don't carry firearms, which they usually don't. You can't order someone to not have a break, or to cut their break unless they've taken the whole shift off or there's an emergency.

 

I can agree that there was a moment that when I was playing as a Warden I had some incidents regarding prisoners. I have moments after those incidents requested a lot of assistance from staff afterwards learning from what was wrong. And befriend inmates? How do you do that, you're a warden, anyone who gets brigged automatically gets a dislike towards the warden, with that "bucklecuffed" note is it such a problem leaving a prisoner 1 minute longer in their cell if you've been ordered of something more urgent has appeared? Whenever I jail normal crewmembers, I usually ask then to do something in the brig to get early release and actually do that. But what can I do to a person who is brigged for a longer moment decides to vandalize the brig, yeah they indeed get a longer sentence from doing so and once that happens they start breaking more regulations it's quite hard to blame me for that specific problem if this mainly appears with every Warden. I can indeed not excuse past incidents but certain statements are just insane.

I have had certain moments where I have been promoted to Interim head of security, and that is also what I am applying for because command, is the area where I would like to work and mainly excel at, on the moments I have gotten Interim HoS, I've held my cool and always communicated everything through with most people and fellow command staff like it is needed, having properly (in my opinion and some others) played as a HoS. I am interested in managing a department properly while creating a fun experience for it's staff, which is why I am also applying for it to not play as a Warden anymore because it's something completely different and each having their own problems.

And with the Cadet problem, it has already been answered. In my eyes, if a certain individual is not interested in helping out their assigned departments, what do you do? Keep them where they are and just leave them be? The clear solution was to fill in a demotion form and bring it forward, which I did, but on that moment when the Captain was reading it, a crisis broke loose and the situation was ignored.

[sianious]

Big +1 I have seen his roleplay as warden and his actions as Interim HoS would like to see him more as Commander

[MuhFps]

I entrust this character with the Head of Security position, I have seen him as Interim Head of Security and did a amazing job in controlling certain situations. Major +1 from me.

I've yet to see you try and befriend inmates or do your job above average.

I am sorry but what you just said is basically telling Hughes to power game in your view on what a Warden needs to be.

[Wrenn]

I've seen Hughes drastically improve since when I first played with him; he as the Warden and myself as Detective. He seems to have thoroughly grasped what is required of him in that role and has on numerous roles been set to run as Interim Head of Security, which he seems to roleplay almost flawlessly. I enjoy the way he has run the department, but having an actual briefing and what he expects to be done, without giving everyone singular commands (I.e. Go to X and do Y; instead he will report the situation and give advice if necessary.)

Massive +1

[Superiorform]

I entrust this character with the Head of Security position, I have seen him as Interim Head of Security and did a amazing job in controlling certain situations. Major +1 from me.

I've yet to see you try and befriend inmates or do your job above average.

I am sorry but what you just said is basically telling Hughes to power game in your view on what a Warden needs to be.

 

I don't see how what DatBeryy suggested is powergaming.

[DatBerry]

And befriend inmates? How do you do that, you're a warden, anyone who gets brigged automatically gets a dislike towards the warden, with that "bucklecuffed" note is it such a problem leaving a prisoner 1 minute longer in their cell if you've been ordered of something more urgent has appeared? Whenever I jail normal crewmembers, I usually ask then to do something in the brig to get early release and actually do that. But what can I do to a person who is brigged for a longer moment decides to vandalize the brig, yeah they indeed get a longer sentence from doing so and once that happens they start breaking more regulations it's quite hard to blame me for that specific problem if this mainly appears with every Warden. I can indeed not excuse past incidents but certain statements are just insane.

 

You can get liked by doing a lot of things, offering fines instead of brig time, paroling 3-5 minute sentences, not using cuffs for violent criminals, removing them as soon as possible when you have to use them, giving them communal before they ask etc, etc.

some inmates are lost causes, but that doesn't mean you get to treat everyone else the same, the cadet mentioned earlier was left bucklecuffed till he got his ID, unless someone is literally dying in the brig, you can take the time to remove the prisoner's hand cuffs, and they should never if possible be left with handcuffs on and buckled while spending their time in a cell, whether it's solitary or normal cells.

 

And with the Cadet problem, it has already been answered. In my eyes, if a certain individual is not interested in helping out their assigned departments, what do you do? Keep them where they are and just leave them be? The clear solution was to fill in a demotion form and bring it forward, which I did, but on that moment when the Captain was reading it, a crisis broke loose and the situation was ignored.

 

Going on a break is hardly abandoning a department, officers go on breaks all the time, stashing their equipment to get a drink in the bar, or at least used to.

the cadet was antagonized by the officer and instead of being the middleman you dogpiled on the cadet and refused to see their point of view, as a head of staff you're expected to solve issues, You can order cadets, but you can not control their entire time on station, you already showed how badly you treat those you can order, I don't want to see you ordering officers or other crew as a head of staff. looking at the incident report filed on the forums, you left them in the cell till their ID came back? that's illegal detainment, another incident happened while I was writing the earlier post, you had left a person in solitary bucklecuffed because.... why? there's no legal grounds to keep someone cuffed to a bed.

this hasn't been the only incident I am sure, yes you are improving, but I don't believe you've reached the point where you can lead a department yet. But I can't trust you to run a department, the security department at that, when you are still breaking regulations and abusing crew yourself.

 

I am sorry but what you just said is basically telling Hughes to power game in your view on what a Warden needs to be.

 

what? WHAT!?

being nice, socializing and roleplaying with prisoners is powergaming? I'm not even going to answer this till you tell me what part exactly is powergaming, because I'm sure you've no idea either.

[Aaron J. Hughes]

You can get liked by doing a lot of things, offering fines instead of brig time, paroling 3-5 minute sentences, not using cuffs for violent criminals, removing them as soon as possible when you have to use them, giving them communal before they ask etc, etc.

 

This is something I have been doing? I am not sure why you are claiming that I did not, but this is something I started do when it was suggested to me. Violent criminals, I have let multiple "Violent" criminals let unhandcuffed in their cell and just lightly flashed them when they tried to break windows, I only keep handcuffs on a prisoner from the moment they attacked me which in all sense is the normal thing to do. I have had moments where a prisoner tried to shag me with a glass piece he broke of a window and still tried to move them to the shuttle in a satisfactory degree, not beating them or shooting them, just flashing & handcuffing them and start taking them with me. To me that is not borderline shitcurity or incompetence.

 

some inmates are lost causes, but that doesn't mean you get to treat everyone else the same, the cadet mentioned earlier was left bucklecuffed till he got his ID, unless someone is literally dying in the brig, you can take the time to remove the prisoner's hand cuffs, and they should never if possible be left with handcuffs on and buckled while spending their time in a cell, whether it's solitary or normal cells.

 

Same thing as I said before, I treat prisoners in a wide variety of ways depending on how the act. The cadet that was mentioned lost his ID, I contacted through security and even made a spare ID for him to try and use but that didn't work because the access problem and the HoS being dead (I believe), the cadet was freely moving around in the security department in that moment as he literally went up to my office to request a spare ID.

 

Going on a break is hardly abandoning a department, officers go on breaks all the time, stashing their equipment to get a drink in the bar, or at least used to.

the cadet was antagonized by the officer and instead of being the middleman you dogpiled on the cadet and refused to see their point of view, as a head of staff you're expected to solve issues, You can order cadets, but you can not control their entire time on station, you already showed how badly you treat those you can order, I don't want to see you ordering officers or other crew as a head of staff. looking at the incident report filed on the forums, you left them in the cell till their ID came back? that's illegal detainment, another incident happened while I was writing the earlier post, you had left a person in solitary bucklecuffed because.... why? there's no legal grounds to keep someone cuffed to a bed.

 

As a warden I have never ordered in any sense fellow officers until I was actually granted permission by a HoS on shifts, I always stated "I suggest" or "You might ..." but never "Do this, Do that", etc. Saying that I treat the people I can order badly is just not right, I have went on massive lengths to explain cadets the functionality of roles, processing, guiding them through on how to be a proper Security Officer one day, even with cadets that were mute but still went to explain them and assigning them to the fellow Officers I entrusted in guiding her in patrols. I have never disregarded a Cadet who wanted a explanation, there may have been times where I told them to wait for a moment, but that Cadet that is mentioned was the only Cadet I ever went angry upon. Sometimes I even do not come in contact with cadets because they already got a partner.

Sure, I understand and agree that officers can go on breaks and do something else, but when you do that, you call yourself out in the radio informing the rest of the department you will be unavailable, this cadet did not, he just took some goofy clothes (which may have indicated the other officer that he was a bit mingey) and went out of the department without informing anyone in the slightest about their break, this is what got me to be angry upon him, just the fact that he did not inform the department, just did his own thing and was ignorant about the problem got me to fill in a demotion form, because just that bit got me convinced that he was a burden to the department and was not interested in assisting this department, which is why he also got processed to be arrested, simply because everyone thought he was on duty and was just ignoring orders and neglecting his duty.

[MuhFps]

what? WHAT!?

being nice, socializing and roleplaying with prisoners is powergaming? I'm not even going to answer this till you tell me what part exactly is powergaming, because I'm sure you've no idea either.

 

Doing it isn't power gaming, you telling him how to role play is basically power gaming. He can play some asshole warden if he wants to, the inmates don't have to like him its not his job to hold everyone's hand so they don't get pissy when they fuck up and get themselves thrown in the brig.

[Bath Salts Addict]

Doing it isn't power gaming, you telling him how to role play is basically power gaming. He can play some asshole warden if he wants to, the inmates don't have to like him its not his job to hold everyone's hand so they don't get pissy when they fuck up and get themselves thrown in the brig.

 

That's not really what powergaming is defined as in the rules. The rules define powergaming as doing whatever you can to gain an edge even if doing so goes beyond reasonable belief for what your character would do regarding the situation at hand. i.e finding out the shock and bolt wires to the front doors in the Brig and wiring signallers to them, or cleaning out the armory and hiding everything somewhere only you know about for no reason.

In other words, I've seen Aaron Hughes in-game as Warden and I can't say I'm impressed. He attempts to take charge, and while that could be considered an admirable trait in some situations, he absolutely becomes insufferable with it. Not only does he do that, but during one round in particular he was absolutely clueless. In a short span of time, someone attempted to kill a sec officer in maintenance with an energy sword, and someone actually did murder another in science. Not at any point did he consider arming Security up to better protect themselves and others, and half the time he was just dicking about in his own office. Both prisoners had to be processed by the arresting officer, and the only thing he bothered to do was bucklecuff one of said murderers in solitary and watch them break out to try and punch themselves to death, giving them a constant supply of handcuffs in the process.

To add insult to injury, a traitor broke into the Captain's office, gave himself a new ID, made an announcement claiming ownership of the station and even had a follow-up announcement by the AI stating that he was wandering the Bridge and heavily armed. Did he actually do anything about it? Nope. Not when the only active security members was him and one other officer, save for one officer that went SSD with their gear 40 mins into the round and one that was dropping every 5 mins because of a connection loss. And when he apparently failed to notice the AI's second announcement stating that the traitor killed said only sec officer and a borg, he assumed it was already dealt with because he saw someone walk into the Brig. Yeah. No corpse or body, or even any attempt at communication.

He later ended up getting killed by the traitor and the prisoner he was attempting (but failing, somehow) to restrain, thinking he could take on someone in a crimson hardsuit and armed to the teeth with just his energy pistol and a baton.

A huge -1 from me. I don't think it'd be beneficial to any round to have Aaron Hughes as a Head of Security.

[Chopper3434]

A huge -1 from me. I don't think it'd be beneficial to any round to have Aaron Hughes as a Head of Security.

 

Hi.

My only proper experience with Aaron was about a day ago when he was playing as an interim head of security. A vampire had subjugated quite a few members of the crew, in the end it ended up with just myself, a security cyborg and Aaron as the security force. I felt he followed the proper procedure, he didn't arm himself to the teeth before elevating the appropriate codes and even in code red he did not go hunting antagonists. Instead he activated the crisis cyborg override and summoned for an ERT. This only occurred after the Captain was brutally murdered in front of him and I informed him that the primary antagonist (a vamp) vanished into thin air. He didn't metagame information and actually took value over his own life, keeping himself safe and letting ERT do the heavy lifting.

I would give a +1 he may not be the best but i certainly wouldn't say he's the worst.

[Scheveningen]

Hi. Coalf and I were recently assigned to the Head of Staff whitelisting team, in particular I was assigned to this application by the head admin as a start.

So. Let's get right into it. The first page of responses are nothing particularly notable, personally I would not deny an application because a cadet had issues with officer oversight and how it was handled although it does reflect on the officer's ability to properly lead and converse with their department.

BSA posted something... insightful, to say the least.

 

In other words, I've seen Aaron Hughes in-game as Warden and I can't say I'm impressed. He attempts to take charge, and while that could be considered an admirable trait in some situations, he absolutely becomes insufferable with it. Not only does he do that, but during one round in particular he was absolutely clueless. In a short span of time, someone attempted to kill a sec officer in maintenance with an energy sword, and someone actually did murder another in science. Not at any point did he consider arming Security up to better protect themselves and others, and half the time he was just dicking about in his own office. Both prisoners had to be processed by the arresting officer, and the only thing he bothered to do was bucklecuff one of said murderers in solitary and watch them break out to try and punch themselves to death, giving them a constant supply of handcuffs in the process.

 

A major expectation of heads of staff is to be able to take charge and direct their department seriously in a crisis. Not doing this causes a complete breakdown of a department structure in which it is every man for themselves. A head of staff must also be able to enable their own subordinates to do their job, not roadblock them either on purpose or by not recognizing when they need assistance. Communication as a third, is ultimately important here. A breakdown of a department while the head of staff is still alive and perfectly able to direct their department is rarely acceptable. It means the entire department ceases to function properly, meaning the other departments may just as well break down as well.

Not to say this is a bad thing, this is a bad thing actually, but not necessarily punishable either. But rather, if you don't put effort into making a good impression as a leadership-inclined employee, why should you be a head of staff?

As a final point. Heads of staff must, before anything else, be good subordinates before they can even consider being in a leadership role.

I'll wait two days before I make a decision.

[MattAtlas]

I'm going to echo what BSA said. It is what I see most often when Aaron plays, be it when I play HoP or when I play my sec officer. Aaron tries to take charge, and most of the time doesn't quite do it right. BSA pretty much stated everything I wanted to say, really. I've been trying to catch a glimpse of you playing, but lately I haven't been seeing you at all.

Now, recently, when I was playing HoP, you came up to my office as a warden and asked to be promoted to interim. I said no, you went to your office and promptly SSD'd. You could say this could have a connection problem, but I doubt it. Otherwise you would not have went to your office and never came back. You had even buckled yourself to a chair, and nobody was there at the time. You were also the only security officer, if I recall correctly. That's not good conduct. I'm not sure what to leave, really. Leaning towards -1, unless you can answer to what I said.

[Aaron J. Hughes]

I'm going to echo what BSA said. It is what I see most often when Aaron plays, be it when I play HoP or when I play my sec officer. Aaron tries to take charge, and most of the time doesn't quite do it right. BSA pretty much stated everything I wanted to say, really. I've been trying to catch a glimpse of you playing, but lately I haven't been seeing you at all.

Now, recently, when I was playing HoP, you came up to my office as a warden and asked to be promoted to interim. I said no, you went to your office and promptly SSD'd. You could say this could have a connection problem, but I doubt it. Otherwise you would not have went to your office and never came back. You had even buckled yourself to a chair, and nobody was there at the time. You were also the only security officer, if I recall correctly. That's not good conduct. I'm not sure what to leave, really. Leaning towards -1, unless you can answer to what I said.

 

Can you give a bit more detail about what character I was interacting and when this happened?

[MattAtlas]

I'm going to echo what BSA said. It is what I see most often when Aaron plays, be it when I play HoP or when I play my sec officer. Aaron tries to take charge, and most of the time doesn't quite do it right. BSA pretty much stated everything I wanted to say, really. I've been trying to catch a glimpse of you playing, but lately I haven't been seeing you at all.

Now, recently, when I was playing HoP, you came up to my office as a warden and asked to be promoted to interim. I said no, you went to your office and promptly SSD'd. You could say this could have a connection problem, but I doubt it. Otherwise you would not have went to your office and never came back. You had even buckled yourself to a chair, and nobody was there at the time. You were also the only security officer, if I recall correctly. That's not good conduct. I'm not sure what to leave, really. Leaning towards -1, unless you can answer to what I said.

 

Can you give a bit more detail about what character I was interacting and when this happened?

 

Erana'Weshi Xoqia is my HoP. It was a few days ago.

[Aaron J. Hughes]

I'm going to echo what BSA said. It is what I see most often when Aaron plays, be it when I play HoP or when I play my sec officer. Aaron tries to take charge, and most of the time doesn't quite do it right. BSA pretty much stated everything I wanted to say, really. I've been trying to catch a glimpse of you playing, but lately I haven't been seeing you at all.

Now, recently, when I was playing HoP, you came up to my office as a warden and asked to be promoted to interim. I said no, you went to your office and promptly SSD'd. You could say this could have a connection problem, but I doubt it. Otherwise you would not have went to your office and never came back. You had even buckled yourself to a chair, and nobody was there at the time. You were also the only security officer, if I recall correctly. That's not good conduct. I'm not sure what to leave, really. Leaning towards -1, unless you can answer to what I said.

 

Can you give a bit more detail about what character I was interacting and when this happened?

 

Erana'Weshi Xoqia is my HoP. It was a few days ago.

 

That is indeed quite possible that I may have went SSD after a request of HoS once, I do not exactly recall nor remember what happened, but whenever I request interim HoS, denied or accepted, I always continue with my task, even with you I should've performed this. But if that action you mentioned happened for a longer duration, I am sorry that such thing took place, it very rarely happens where I get disturbed and be SSD for longer durations. I will definitely try my best to not have such occurrences appear again.

The only thing I can recall was a moment where I went SSD during crew transfer as warden but I do not think that it is the incident you're talking about.

[MattAtlas]

Can you give a bit more detail about what character I was interacting and when this happened?

 

Erana'Weshi Xoqia is my HoP. It was a few days ago.

 

That is indeed quite possible that I may have went SSD after a request of HoS once, I do not exactly recall nor remember what happened, but whenever I request interim HoS, denied or accepted, I always continue with my task, even with you I should've performed this. But if that action you mentioned happened for a longer duration, I am sorry that such thing took place, it very rarely happens where I get disturbed and be SSD for longer durations. I will definitely try my best to not have such occurrences appear again.

The only thing I can recall was a moment where I went SSD during crew transfer as warden but I do not think that it is the incident you're talking about.

 

Alright, that is fine. In that case, I am going to stay as neutral and retract my -1.

[Scheveningen]

Regrettably, I'll have to deny this application. If the OP has concerns as to why, they can lodge them to Scheveningen#4745 on discord.

The OP can reapply in-between 14-21 days time, whichever they believe is an adequate timeframe to improve their play a bit based off of the feedback in this thread.