After the encounters with the Core in Zeta and past operations to salvage the assets of Kairo Station, it is worth reminding for all of you how to handle reports.
I, specifically me, am responsible for making sure that all this paperwork is properly archived. If you think you're going to be the hero of the day by pushing a button, you're dead wrong. The contents of your messages are checked ten more times by a whole team of experts.
I will start complaining to my superiors if any of you do any of the following (or do not do):
Showing your faces in your reports, as is done here, here, and here. To be clear, I'm binary, meaning I like both guys and girls. If I want to see the faces of both genders - I'll open some lewd journal. In your case, putting a face on a report creates a risk. The risk that if information leaks out, your face will end up in the hands of every intelligence agency in the Sirius sector. You put not only yourself at risk, but your fellow officers as well.
Regarding the text to be filled in: concise and clear. I don't need the details of who's doing a shitty job there and all that kind of stuff. I don't care how much someone on your team wanted to go to mommy when the fate of the Fort was at stake. You can reveal the feelings of such people to the nearest psychologist, not in a report that carries any information with it. My team and I want to see information, not emotion.
Fill out everything in a template. It's not invented for nothing. If I'm looking for your name on a list of recent reports to refer to your “here and now” information, be kind enough not to fill it out like this. If I see >Name< instead of Name one more time, I swear to God you will draw the report on a piece of paper, fill it out, and fax it to me personally. This also goes for all your “cool” logos.
For the battle for Cairo alone, I received about a hundred reports with different design styles and only a tiny fraction of them matched the template. About five of them didn't even fucking match the general coding, and you know what that can lead to? A fucking data leak to a third party. The same ones who stormed the Fort and Cairo and are now taking over Zeta.
My hour-long job ended up taking two days. It's hard for me and my guys to work with you, only to have to listen to Overwatch complain that we filled out something wrong or didn't honor the secrecy. And none of them refers to you, the claims go specifically to us, while you are “heroes” for them.
Jimmy Manderson ECLISPE VANGUARD, HADES BRIGADE
16/02/835
Jimmy Manderson Wrote:- Adam, if this fuckin' thing happens again, I'm gonna complain. I'm not kidding. I'm sick of dealing with tons of paperwork, 80% of which is not the way it should be filled out. I mean, it's tripling my job and my guys' jobs. If you can't affect the Vanguard, affect the Brigade. Thank you.
Adam Helson Wrote:- I'll discuss it all with our people. As for Eclipse, my authority there is not high enough to explain it all to the rest of the people. I can only put in my five cents, but not give orders outside the Brigade.
Jimm Nimes Wrote:- As much as I don't want to agree with this gay guy, I'm going to have to. We didn't even pay attention to the reports until he said, “Okay, deal with it yourself.” Adam, you're the one who made me deal with it later. Jimmy's an asshole in his behavior, but he's the best at paperwork. I've seen it for myself. At least my boys are now doing things the way it should be done.
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