Lo6a4evskiy wrote:
Yeah, you guys, you can talk about how HoP is not actually head of personnel all you want.
But it's pretty obvious that he's meant to be head of personnel.
Firstly, he's the only one besides captain who has access to ID computer. If heads were supposed to assign people, they would have access to it instead.
Just because things are a certain way, doesn't mean they're supposed to be that way...
Lo6a4evskiy wrote:
Secondly, he has FULL access to ID computer, which indicates that he was supposed to assign ANYBODY to ANYWHERE.
Having access to the ID computer doesn't actually indicate authority to use it without permission. Engineers have access to the singulo, are they allowed to turn it off without asking the CE if they prefer solar power? No. The Head of Personnel is the head of civilians on the station, and handles the bureaucracy of ID changes FOR the other heads because they're busy. The HoP has no authority to give medbay access if the CMO doesn't approve.
Of course, in an emergency, people overstep their authority for the good of the station. But it might as well be an assistant breaking in and doing it, because the Head of Personnel has NO authority over the medbay. The CMO answers ONLY to the captain.
I mean, you're actually saying that the HoP has a right to strip the Captain of access, without emergency circumstances. The machine lets him, after all. By "ANYBODY" do you mean anybody, anybody but the Captain, or just non-heads?
Lo6a4evskiy wrote:
Finally, it's in the fucking job name.
The station crew are personnel. So you can interpret Head of Personnel as being the head in command of ever single crewmember, including the Captain, or as being in charge of maintaining personnel records and handling ID changes when necessary.
Lo6a4evskiy wrote:
Now, recent updates changed that, removing one of the aspects of HoP's job and brought nothing to replace it. It's bullshit and gotta be fixed.
And you want to reduce HoP's responsibilities even more, WITHOUT ADDING ANYTHING ELSE.
That's stupid and shouldn't happen.
Show me a HoP that actually manages the clown, mime, chef, bartender, librarian, janitor, MINING, CARGO, and ALL ASSISTANTS and is still bored.
Plus doing ID changes for those jobs, and potentially for other departments if those heads delegate properly.
(Botanists are research, technically. If the chef needs more food then the HoP can have cargo order food crates, or have mining and cargo start a farm.)
My point being that the HoP has plenty of responsibilities which generally go unperformed, so there's nothing wrong with *reducing* one of them.
I don't think they should be antag-proof though, I don't see the need.
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