RPing: A Question of Ethics

[atamusvaleo]

Hello! I know there is another thread discussing RP in general on "Density" already; however, my intentions here are to focus more on individual situations one might find him/herself encountering during a normal shift, and to get a discourse on everyone's general thoughts as to how they should be approached.

As an example:

I often play as Kevin Spessy, Chief Engineer, and part of being a head means having to fire people from time to time. My question here would be, what's the "proper" way to go about this?

I've gone through multiple channels, from bringing the person into my office and having a sit-down, explaining why they're fired and giving them a chance to defend themselves. I've also just stripped a worker of their ID (they were repeatedly leaking plasma and running round like a lunatic).

In both cases, it gets to that point of, where do we go from here? They're fired. So, do I:

• have them report to HOP and get a new position? (Who's to stop them from saying yeah whatever and keeping their access)

• have security escort them to the hop's office?

• call the HOP and ask him to come take the id?

• do something I'm not thinking of?

Again, I realize this will be open to a lot of opinions and will vary from based on the situation at hand. This is just to get a general idea of how folks would like to be treated in these situations where I could imagine some sort of procedure being in place irl.

Of course, if you disagree with my sentiments entirely and think I should stop talk, please say so and I'll do my best!

[Erev]

It'd depend upon the infraction and what positions are manned at the time. Assuming a full staff I'd say that a major infraction would warrant Security or the Captain. The HoP is better for less drastic issues where a simple reassignment might fix things. There is no 'set' method however.

[Kubius]

I think according to the shiny new Space Law (https://gist.github.com/Chnkr/d8dbd84a52ef58dbd592) that counts as Creating a Workplace Hazard which is a major crime, so a moderate prison sentence (5-10 minutes depending on how bad the leak was) followed by reassignment is probably what I'd go with.

[atamusvaleo]

Oh, crap... so a hellburn is a potentially serious crime if it leads to the pipes bursting, walls burning, and people getting harmed. Don't know why this didn't register with me until rereading the laws just now

[babayetu83]

i'd do the whole thing with the office and then have a sec officer escort them off the premises and presumably to the hop office for reassignment

[Frank_Stein]

i'd do the whole thing with the office and then have a sec officer escort them off the premises and presumably to the hop office for reassignment

Really, what makes that way of doing it best is that it pulls in two additional people for the interaction. Officer gets something to do, HoP gets a heads up to give them time to get to their office, the fired guy gets a chance to give their spin of the events to both of them.

[DyssalC]

i'd do the whole thing with the office and then have a sec officer escort them off the premises and presumably to the hop office for reassignment

Really, what makes that way of doing it best is that it pulls in two additional people for the interaction. Officer gets something to do, HoP gets a heads up to give them time to get to their office, the fired guy gets a chance to give their spin of the events to both of them.

Not to mention with a sec officer enforcing it/bringing them in it'll make it less likely that the person doesn't just ignore you or run off.