GULGULLANA

[soulping]

[ you're ushered into a tiny break room, which is SURPRISINGLY WELL LIT! There's some chairs, a single table, fountain pens and inkwells, and a box of (stale) donuts. ]

[ on the table is a single sheet of paper, with the following questions:


TEAM NAME (if made up of multiple teams, choose a new one):

1.) What would you say your skills, as a team are?

2.) How would you define suffering?

3.) How far are you willing to go to achieve victory?

4.) Where do you see yourselves in five years?

5.) What are your team's weaknesses?

6.) What accomplishment are you most proud of?

7.) Tell me about a time you made a mistake.

8.) If you saw another employee stealing from the company, what would you do?

9.) Describe your team.

10.) What motivates you?

11.) What makes you uncomfortable?

12.) Can you say: 'Peter Pepper Picked a Pickled Pepper' and cross-sell a washing machine at the same time?

13.) If I came to your house for dinner, what would you prepare for us?

14.) Calculate the angle of two clock hands when time is 11:50.

15.) Has a member of your team ever killed another living creature? Did they enjoy it?

Comments

[debate_avenger]

I was thinking of a 2:1:1 mix, with 50% of whatever we raise going to equipment maintenance, 25% going to lower-level employees, and 25% going to enforcers, myself. We can adjust the percentages as needed, but if we're going to raise the budget, we shouldn't just focus on one thing.

[pronounced]

And the drawbacks from raising the budget?

[ because that sounds too reasonable to her for it to work out so nicely... ]

[debate_avenger]

Most likely, the extra budget will come out of us.

[Interpret that as you will.]

[pronounced]

[ and it's something that she just silently considers ]

[debate_avenger]

I think we all agree that raising the budget's the best choice, though. The main questions seems to be how much should we raise it, and how should we distribute it?

[pronounced]

Looks like we're on the verge of figuring that part out as well. Surprisingly given how the question looked.

[doublechecks]

We'd need to make more profit so we can stay in business.

[ as simple as that. ]

[hardertheyfall]

We can't make any profit if our workers are working less and things are breaking.

[doublechecks]

Which is why increasing it better lead to results, or we're going to get axed by our higher-up.

[ beat. ]

Though let's hope it's not literal axing. I'd rather have my head intact right now.

[pronounced]

I'm sure there would be other ways for that. If I'm understand this concept, we're only one part of a much bigger chain.

[doublechecks]

[ after considering Cross' suggestion. ]

Personally, I'd think a 1:2:1 would be better suited, we can have the worker's morale going up, which might lead to less protection needed.

Also, the added budget can go to teaching them so they could learn more about the machines in order to maintain it themselves.

[hardertheyfall]

Maybe we can make the rewards contingent on the workers learning more about the machines? If you can repair what you work with you get a bigger raise.

[debate_avenger]

Practical. We can save on maintenance costs by pushing them to the employees.

[doublechecks]

Yes, the more satisfied they are, the more willing they are to work. That could work too.

[ hm...! ]

[pronounced]

I also agree, this alongside Wipe's idea doesn't too bad for everyone involved.

[ not like she has any business sense but. ]