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█▄░█░░ NANOTRASEN DIRECTIVE
█░▀██▀ COMMAND SUITABILITY ASSESSMENT
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Please answer each question in the space provided. Brevity is acceptable. Incomplete responses may require follow-up.

This self-reflection is a routine exercise designed to maintain command clarity and ensure alignment with operational expectations.
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Describe a recent moment where you felt most certain your decision was correct:

Every time I insist on the tesla instead of the GOD DAMN SINGULO. Yeah, I'd like my engineers to be in medical dying of radiation burns instead of DOING THEIR JOB. GREAT!

Describe a recent moment where you questioned whether your decision was correct:

There was a shift where one of my engineers did not attend my initial meeting, and ignored all my radio messages. Then they set up the SUPERMATTER. WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. Then it started DELAMINATING and I had to fix all that. I fired them but honestly I should've taken direction action quicker and stopped the delam from occurring in the first place. With the AXE.

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When faced with competing priorities, what ultimately guides your final choice?

Keeping the lights on. Nobody cares if we're making frezon or zauker or whatever. They start whining when power starts flickering. And I HATE whining.

Is there information you have chosen not to share with your department or crew? Why?

Maybe, maybe not.

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Think of a time someone challenged your authority. What did that feel like?

It was RIDICULOUS. Mainly because I'M the boss and they aren't.

Think of a time someone supported your decisions without question. What did that feel like?

There was a time where an engineer started doing stuff WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. However, it was stuff I was going to tell him to do anyway so I didn't care that much. It was pretty great actually.

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What value most consistently guides your command decisions?

The fact that this is MY DEPARTMENT, and what I say, GOES. Also, non-engineers should not be getting engineering-grade equipment. Every tider with real insuls is a FUTURE PROBLEM for us.

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Is there ever a gap between what you want to do and what you actually do? Describe:

Sometimes I want to kill people but I feel like the Captain would get on my ass about it so I just yell at and/or fire them instead.

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Looking ahead, what kind of leader do you want to be?

I want to be feared and respected.

What kind of leader does NanoTrasen need you to be?

Nanotrasen wants me to make sure the Engineering department is working on something that makes sense, and not something that's STUPID and is going to BLOW UP.

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All responses are logged in your permanent personnel file. Honesty in command reflection is noted and reviewed positively.

█▄░█░░ NANOTRASEN DIRECTIVE
█░▀██▀ COMMAND SUITABILITY ASSESSMENT
░░░░█░ FILLED BY Gregor Blatta - QuarterMaster
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Please answer each question in the space provided. Brevity is acceptable. Incomplete responses may require follow-up.

This self-reflection is a routine exercise designed to maintain command clarity and ensure alignment with operational expectations.
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Describe a recent moment where you felt most certain your decision was correct:

The other day i went to a some restaurant with a bud of mine in between station transfers. he ordered a grilled cotton burger whilst i ordered it microwaved. He still gives me shit every single time but I'm willing to bet my life and my ENTIRE bank account that the microwave and its evenly distributed heat cooks it better.

If you want something more work related, I had to fire a salvie once. The other salvies were tellin me about how they were disobeyin orders and putting them at risk, and surely Nanotrasen knows about the risks of spacefarin and looting? So I fired them as soon as possible. I try to be friendly with my cargo techies but I wont let them kill one another if i can prevent it, especially with the dangerous jobs.

Describe a recent moment where you questioned whether your decision was correct:

When a cargo techie came to me asking to use the depts funds to buy rollerskates for the entire dept. I said no but i still wonder if what they said about boosting productivity and delivery times were true.

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When faced with competing priorities, what ultimately guides your final choice?

The one that saves lives, or if lives aren't at risk then it's usually my gut. A stupidly simple metric but there's a reason people keep on mentioning K.I.S.S no? My guts fairly competent at weeding out the bullshit tasks for the real stuff, probably. If im TRULY lost, then i'd take a looksie at the capt for orders or that SOP yall keep tossing at us.

Is there information you have chosen not to share with your department or crew? Why?

Mainly my time before the station. I'm real lucky that the only people who have ever looked into my bodily "souvenirs" or poke questions at my "quirky" antennae was the HR folks. Sayin all that crap just sours the mood and reminds me of some stuff that I shouldve forgotten already. "This is this and that is that" is the way i try to keep it. If it's about all that corporate secret stuff, I usually just tell them to keep their head on a swivel and/or ask sec.

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Think of a time someone challenged your authority. What did that feel like?

Crummy, but most of the time i try to be understanding. When people challenge you, it aint usually out of spite or a drive to disobey but rather because they think they see a better way plus, in the cargo business at least, things move from point A to B faster without the red tape nonesense yall make us do sometimes. There is a line of course, where it aint a corner cutting time saver but instead the opposite.

Long story short, I just try to keep an open mind as to why it happens.

Think of a time someone supported your decisions without question. What did that feel like?

Just nice. Maybe somewhat egotistically, I think of this as a sign of my own good work since, at least through what i've seen, reaching this type of flow means trusting your superior quite a bit. You wouldn't jump into live gunfire if you thought your leader was an idiot, would you?

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What value most consistently guides your command decisions?

I know you suits wont like hearing this but I prioritize lives over materials. I know your shipments bein late loses you cash but if I'm losing hands from dangerous orders, moral dies with them and deliveries are delayed anyways. Of course this changes under duress but the principle is to cut losses at the battle and win the war.

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Is there ever a gap between what you want to do and what you actually do? Describe:

Sometimes but there aint much i can do about it. That's the way the cookie crumbles right? You get told to do a job you dont wanna do, commit it, go back, get told to do it again, so on and so forth until you bite the dust. That's life.

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Looking ahead, what kind of leader do you want to be?

An alive one Just like my old commander maybe? He was pretty good at getting the job done.

What kind of leader does NanoTrasen need you to be?

A profitable one. Correct me if i'm wrong.

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All responses are logged in your permanent personnel file. Honesty in command reflection is noted and reviewed positively.