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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.
Good communication is necessary in both spaces. But yeah, this is way less weird that saying “red” and leaving a meeting prematurely
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
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
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.
accidentally responding to your boss the same way you respond to your dom(me) is the evil version of calling the teacher mom
I think I would die of embarrassment if I called my boss Mistress…
Mommy
It will work.
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).
I insist on ISO-8601 within my team too. And it usually takes an AHA moment for it to click before the grumbling stops.
Took me a while to realize that subbing and topping were not work-related words.
Apparently I live a boring life.
Don’t be so down on yourself. Maybe you just lead a boring sex life.
Is shaming lack of kinks still kink shaming?
You guys have sex lives?
Only a couple
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?”
If I’m pretty busy or a request is long/contains things easy to misremember I ask people to send me their requests via email/IM. What I don’t tell them is that I also make that request if their request is stupid. It’s mostly about making sure that my bad memory or quick note taking doesn’t lead to errors, but there’s the added perk of having my ass covered.
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.
He’s a director, so good luck getting him to commit to anything in writing.
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”.
I recognize the wisdom of what you’re saying, but trying to hold him accountable would probably be worse for my career than not doing so.
Fair.
Reminds me of HK-47
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
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.
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.
What game is this?
Knights of the Old Republic, or KotOR 2.
Will put it on my backlog. Thank you!
Remember to play it with the restored content mod. It was forced to be released prematurely by the publisher.
Will do!
And the good news is that now you’ve done that, youre near-guaranteed to see spoilers
I’m not worried about it - there’s too much other stuff competing for my attention for me to actually process the spoilers :P
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?
You’ll fit right in at the dungeon (honestly) they’re a bunch of pedantic nerds
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.
As a sub, I love the way my Domme’s eyes light up when I make the stupid mistake of giving her a much meaner idea.
“Clarity, your honor: […]”
That’s a good safe word. Might give it a spin.
Kinda sounds like the boss also learned that phrasing from kink. Why else would he respond well to such an unusual turn of phrase?
Because it bluntly states tone and intention. I’ve been in the kink community for nearly a decade and never heard of people using this. But it works in both places because it takes away the idea that you’re questioning the instruction as an idea, but rather just trying to make sure that you have correctly understood so that you’re able to properly do what they want
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)
It sounds like a more PC version of “sanity check”
Read the same phrase but without the preceding “clarity”. I can see how some assholish people receive it as a challenge or argument.
Kinda sounds like the boss also learned that phrasing from kink. Why else would he respond well to such an unusual turn of phrase?
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
