Ramblings

S4-Final
- Procedure -

If a problem develops to a point where immediate course correction is needed to avert damage, a Final Warning may be issued. It serves as point of no return and indicates the last possible chance for course correction. If this warning is ignored or otherwise neglected, consequences will happen¹⁾²⁾.

Final Warning means that for one last time I will take all my patience and logic to run through the problem again, start to finish, talk about everything that is necessary to be talked about. It is the ultimate good faith effort. I will genuinely try, in part because I genuinely want to solve a problem, but also in part because I believe that every person should get at the very least one open and best faith chance to talk about things, gather information and to deliberate together about what to do about a problem. This final warning is the invitation for that best faith effort and will be what I will point at in the future when I think about whether I gave a person reasonable chance and heads up to find a solution to a problem. This counts, obviously, unless what a person does is so grossly and/or negligently hurtful that the person knew ahead of time that they were going to hurt someone.

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And I mean it, this is the final warning. Consequences will follow immediately and there is no going back. There is no “experiencing the consequences and realizing the consequences are so severe you probably should have listened to the warning”, once the consequences are there it's too late.

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And yes, I am not going to be using consequences as a chip in negotiations. They are not meant to be a tool to threaten, pressurize someone or bring about compliance. In most cases, the consequences are completely transparent, in part because I want to encourage a conversation about what exactly the consequences should be to begin with. We should be able to deliberate together about what the right thing to do is. On the other end, if it is to be expected that a person is so uncooperative that no sensible discussion about consequences is possible to begin with then I might forget to bring it up, though I am always happy to be asked about them.