A picture taken from the lighthouse looking down on Pacidlux from way up high. I feel Pacidlux is getting there, I hope my Bro Hech is thinking the same thing. I haven’t seen him in a few days now, and I hop I’ll see him this weekend :).
Who is Hechicero Blanco? He is asking himself this question, and whether he should choose for what he wants and likes or if he chooses for something that might not work at all…
A choice he feels is hard to make, an I can imagine completely. I had to make the same choice, and quite frankly, looking back on the decision, it was an obvious one. However the process took months for me. Doubting whether to stay or to go used to come once a week, in my last week it was every hour. At that point i needed to finally make a decision. Not just for my own sake, but for the sake of others as well. Others were suffering because I was suffering. Not physical, but emotional, and that’s neither good for me nor for anyone else. Any person who’s ever met me in a grumpy mood can confirm (if they lived to tell the tale, lol).
Ever since we moved off the ground, we never had a both beautiful as well as functional building. As agreed in previous senior-officers meeting, it’s time that other people get a chance. Mus has never built a PDSL station, let alone something functional (just kidding). But this time I think he managed to whip up something that is beyond imagination. An actual building that can be used, and looks good too!
See the attached pictures for yourself. Seeing is believing, believing is seeing…
OMG! Since when does some dipshit get 6000L$ for policing SL? Even Linden employees get less…
And no, PDSL is NOT Linden affiliated, nor will we ever say we are. This dipshit said he was liated, and subsequently his group was disbanded by Linden Labs for misrepresentation. A wise lesson for those who say they are liated to LL…
Ok, I’ve had it, completely… Just back from a week vacation, and shit has hit the fan. Sometimes I feel I’m in control of a kindergarten-class instead of a group of (supposedly) mature PDSL officers. I feel along with Hechicero, who thinks and acts on the same issues I do, it’s just that I feel respect for each other in PDSL is gone.
I took it upon myself to vacate my position for the better of PDSL, I’m caught in the crossfire I’ve dreaded for over 6 months, and now it’s time to pack my stuff and leave the boat before someone decides to drop a torpedo and hits the wrong boat. I’m not willing to sacrifice friendship(s) over something stupid as a difference in opinion. I cannot hold my position without jeopardizing at least one (1) friendship in the upcoming weeks. And I’m not willing to do that.
No I’m not leaving PDSL, cuz Hechicero and Nickie (and maybe Eddie as well) probably won’t let me go, so I offered an alternative to the commanders. I’ve volunteered to become an advisor, as we used to have for a long time in PDSL; independent yet not completely. I offered more or less to be “Internal affairs” on my own, looking at PDSL from a distance and reporting and advising on things that should or should not change.
I’m not going into full details yet, but I’m gonna be assisting the commanders in streamlining PDSL as a whole, not just clarifying the job-descriptions but also from the roots of PDSL up, after all PDSL is not just a top-down-organization, but also a bottom-up-organization. It’s not the commanders on the street that make the difference, and that is the point that seems lost in PDSL as well as communication.
Communication - now that’s an interesting point. We’ve been working with a closed structure for a long time, maybe too long. Lines of communication need to be open yet structured. Ofcourse it’s not ok to IM a commander directly as officer, but being able to contact a DC if you can’t get a hold of a Lt. or Capt. should be one of the possibilities. And if you feel the need of communicating skipping a certain chain, at least be so decent to notify the ones you’ve skipped that you contacted someone above. I don’t feel that this will disrupt the teams nor will it fail communication as a whole, as long as the above guideline of OPEN communication is followed…
Well I think I’ve typed enough for a post this time, but this will be continued….
