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x_teamLet me be perfectly blunt.
Post-crisis, I expect arguing. I expect confrontations, heated debates over whatever's happened, all sorts of potentially questionable behavior. It's a perfectly natural, perfectly human response. Hence why I no longer make the old 'shut the hell up, all of you, or I'll unplug the journal system' threat - because it finally sank in that insisting people suppress those reactions (which many of them will do if the journals are not an option, because it's much harder to have these arguments in person) is unreasonable on my part, and fundamentally unhealthy all around.
That said, I expect certain things from you. The collective, leather-clad you, whatever color of leather you happen to be wearing.
I do not expect you to suppress your reactions. I merely expect you to demonstrate good judgement as to when and where to give voice to those reactions.
The journals are good for venting. For the resolution of serious issues, they are worthless. If you have one of these issues with a fellow team member, you email or come to me or one of the other COs, or Professor Xavier. If it's something you believe you can handle one-on-one with the person you're having an issue with, you go straight to them. Do it face to face, do it computer to computer, I don't care.
But you do not attack your teammates in public. We are not a military unit, not exactly, but we share certain characteristics with one. There is a structure of authority, a necessary level of respect, and an implicit bond of trust that has to be maintained if we are to function effectively.
And you are held to higher standards of behavior the minute you put on leathers of any color. It's about time we all reminded ourselves of that.
This is what you signed up for.
Post-crisis, I expect arguing. I expect confrontations, heated debates over whatever's happened, all sorts of potentially questionable behavior. It's a perfectly natural, perfectly human response. Hence why I no longer make the old 'shut the hell up, all of you, or I'll unplug the journal system' threat - because it finally sank in that insisting people suppress those reactions (which many of them will do if the journals are not an option, because it's much harder to have these arguments in person) is unreasonable on my part, and fundamentally unhealthy all around.
That said, I expect certain things from you. The collective, leather-clad you, whatever color of leather you happen to be wearing.
I do not expect you to suppress your reactions. I merely expect you to demonstrate good judgement as to when and where to give voice to those reactions.
The journals are good for venting. For the resolution of serious issues, they are worthless. If you have one of these issues with a fellow team member, you email or come to me or one of the other COs, or Professor Xavier. If it's something you believe you can handle one-on-one with the person you're having an issue with, you go straight to them. Do it face to face, do it computer to computer, I don't care.
But you do not attack your teammates in public. We are not a military unit, not exactly, but we share certain characteristics with one. There is a structure of authority, a necessary level of respect, and an implicit bond of trust that has to be maintained if we are to function effectively.
And you are held to higher standards of behavior the minute you put on leathers of any color. It's about time we all reminded ourselves of that.
This is what you signed up for.
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Date: 2005-10-18 03:23 am (UTC)Or maybe I ought to just write this off as yet another example of why the journals are a particularly poor medium for conveying anything that's in the slightest way important.
That being said, Shiro, this was still not a discussion that should have been held publicly, and this is me continuing to refer you to Charles if you wish to discuss it further. This was certainly not a discussion or debate that should have been held publicly, by anyone, in the journal of a student we recently rescued from a highly traumatic experience.