• Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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    Im stealing this.

    Its taken me years to get my offices to actually communicate better. Using the NATO alphabet requires posters (which were left at a past job) and I still get weird looks when I insist on using ISO-8601 (fuck you deborah, this will sort correctly in excel).

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      I insist on ISO-8601 within my team too. And it usually takes an AHA moment for it to click before the grumbling stops.

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    OP thinks they’ve sexed up their workplace, but they actually just worked-up their sex space. Clarity: Clarity is a normally thing to say at work.

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      24 hours ago

      clear and respectful communication shouldn’t be a defining characteristic of either, it should be a characteristic of us as a mature species

      god knows how many people have died because of a misunderstanding that got out of hand

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      22 hours ago

      Clarity: Clarity is a normally thing to say at work.

      I am unironically adding this to my safeword bucket, because thinking about it, that is an amazing way to communicate power in a scene gently but forcefully. I can already see how my partners are going to react to that, and I can’t wait lol

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      Yeah, that’s something I took up long time ago.

      Everything that can’t be undone in around 10 minutes if you mess it up I repeat twice either when doing it myself or asking someone else.

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    accidentally responding to your boss the same way you respond to your dom(me) is the evil version of calling the teacher mom

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    So many people I’ve worked with say things, then don’t remember saying them, or at least don’t remember any of the details of what they said. I’ve started introducing errors when I repeat their words back to them because it seems to help their memory - they want to correct me and it reminds them of what they said.

    I am frustrated with my current manager because he seems to have wholesale forgotten things he said. I haven’t yet come up with a good way of responding to “why did you make this decision?” other than “because you said so?”

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      Sounds like you need a dose of good old CYA: summarize everything relevant that he tells you in an email and add something like „let me know if I misunderstood“. Later, when he doubts he ever instructed you to do something, you can dig out the corresponding email.

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          That’s why you write it down and send it to him. Then you can at least say “you could have corrected my misunderstanding but didn’t”.

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    Took me a while to realize that subbing and topping were not work-related words.

    Apparently I live a boring life.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOP
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      That’s HK-50, meatbag. I never did find all the parts to rebuild 47. I recall there is a factory pumping out 50s, but I never got to stop that either.

      I miss that game. 2 was so much more polished than 1, but the first was so ground breaking

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        Polished is hardly a thing I would call 2. They were literally forced to release a half finished mess. So much potential just fell flat because of missing content.

        Luckily the restored content mod fixes that.

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        The HK factory was cut content, only accessible via the TSLRCM.

        You get parts for HK-47 fairly quickly and on each planet. Parts after each HK-50 fight, and/or from a merchant on each planet. With a couple spares if you miss along on the way. Only 4 parts are needed, but there are 7 total opportunities.

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    I feel like this is up there with how parliamentarians interject: “Point of Order☝️” I can def see that in a BDSM scenario. Point of order madam chairwoman, the instruction is to make no sound. Is that intended vocal-based sound or is this an FPS stealth scenario on Expert difficulty?

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        And the best part is they just volunteered to make it harder on themselves.

        I love it when my bottom makes the scene better because they were sure how evil I was gonna be and gave me a better idea. The resultant ‘well fuck’ is so satisfying.

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    Kinda sounds like the boss also learned that phrasing from kink. Why else would he respond well to such an unusual turn of phrase?

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      I’ve heard people use “for clarity,” to clarify an ask… and, though my experience is limited, I’ve never heard it used in kink (before)

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      Read the same phrase but without the preceding “clarity”. I can see how some assholish people receive it as a challenge or argument.

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    Kinda sounds like the boss also learned that phrasing from kink. Why else would he respond well to such an unusual turn of phrase?

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      Well I think because people already say “for clarity,” And making it more succinct is soldier-like, making boss feel important (like a “Dom”). I can kind of see how a boss might, incorrectly, see “for clarity, you want me to do x?” Or"to be clear I need to do x?" As “I can’t believe you’re asking me to do that, idiot” but then not seen clarity: x as a challenge