Sunday, January 16, 2022

Proposal: Flat Structure

Reached quorum 8-4. Josh

Adminned at 17 Jan 2022 09:16:07 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule called Job Titles:

Each Employee has a Job Title, which defaults to Intern and which is publicly tracked. The CEO has a Job Title of CEO.

An Employee’s Job Title is discerned as follows: X Y, where X is the name of the Department to which they belong and Y is their hierarchal rank.

The Boring Box Company organisation chart recognises the following hierarchal ranks, ordered from most senior to least senior:

*CEO
*Vice-President
*Director
*Manager
*Executive
*Team Leader
*Administrator
*Officer
*Intern

Within each Department, an Employee may be said to be managing all other Employees with less senior hierarchal titles than themselves, and may be said to be being managed by all other Employees with a more senior hierarchal title than themselves. For the purposes of this rule, the CEO belongs to all Departments. Across all Departments, all Employees of the same hierarchal rank can be referred to as a cohort, or as contemporaries.

An Employee may, as a weekly action, Promote one Employee who they manage by increasing their hierarchal rank by one step, provided that this does not result in the promoted Employee having a hierarchal rank that is contemporary or senior to than that of the Employee that is promoting them.

Give all Employees a hierarchal rank of Officer and set their job title accordingly.

Comments

Brendan: he/him

16-01-2022 15:14:42 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

16-01-2022 15:29:59 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

16-01-2022 16:04:37 UTC

for

Snisbo: she/they

16-01-2022 17:59:44 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

16-01-2022 18:51:34 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

16-01-2022 19:40:32 UTC

against

This doesn’t work. Job Title defaults to “Intern”, but hierarchal rank does not. This would cause Hierarchal rank to default to Administrator allowing new players to cut the line.

Josh: Observer he/they

16-01-2022 20:05:25 UTC

NB the issue identified by Clucky only affects newly unidling players; all existing players are covered by this proposal. While voting for his patch is advised, I would not consider it particularly worth voting against this one, other than to express disapproval of the overall concept.

redtara: they/them

16-01-2022 21:02:51 UTC

against climbing the ladder is frustrating enough in real life thanks

Zack: he/him

16-01-2022 22:47:05 UTC

:DEF: It’s worth pointing out that if everyone starts as Office then no one will be able to promote anyone else until I promote one person twice (which will take two weeks), and then still only that person would be able to promote someone, and only once, and only within their department.

Zack: he/him

16-01-2022 22:47:16 UTC

imperial

Silverwing: she/her

16-01-2022 22:55:08 UTC

against

Raven1207: he/they

16-01-2022 23:27:43 UTC

against

Clucky: he/him

16-01-2022 23:38:32 UTC

@Zack you’re also unable to promote anyone, as you’re not an employee

TyGuy6:

17-01-2022 03:05:10 UTC

for