Barclamïu da Miéletz
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Zone Interdite, Cézembre






Estimats Zuávs da l'Altahál Rexhitál,

I hope this write reaches whoever is the current head/captain well. Recently, I've found myself unmotivated to do anything in this wonderful Kingdom. That partially stems from my actual, albeit somewhat sorry, life. I haven't been doing that well in school, I have disappointed my parents and I wasn't the nicest to many people I personally know.  As much as I want to do something for Talossa, I don't get any ideas whatsoever, even if I try really hard. So, as much as it hurts for me to say this, I would like to resign from the Zouaves. I have multiple reasons for my decisions, which are:

    1. As mentioned before, I'm completely unmotivated to do anything.
    2. Following point one, what's the point of me being in the Zouaves if I'm not doing anything?
    3. Following point two, there's nothing really happening in the Zouaves anyway (at least from my point of view) and I'm just existing.

With that, I hope that whoever is the current head/captain acknowledges my decision and acts accordingly.

Just bumping this. I think the proposed draft is a great start. We definitely want to get this done sooner rather than later, so we can get everything set before the next election and not wait until the last minute.

What is the advantage of having a permanent secretary do this?

GROUP 3
3 - The Libertines - Night of the Hunter
2 - KAJ - Bara Bada Bastu
1 - Prisma - Lost

GROUP 4
3 - Ásgeir - Sugar Clouds
2 - VÆB - Róa
1 - Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat

GROUP 5
3 - Madi Diaz - Worst Case Scenario
2 - Dagny - Jupiter
1 - Against the Current - Silent Stranger

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Today at 02:35:10 PMThat's a policy choice on your part.

Not really... it has exactly zero regular duties.  Its statutory obligations are opening embassies when requested and supervising BHAID.  So the work it has to do is reaching out and engaging with other states of various kinds.  XPB is going to Microcon for example, with His Majesty, and we're not exactly going to need three deputies to handle all the embassies that need opening while he's gone.

Unless there's other things I'm missing?  I don't want to jump to any conclusions, which is why this thread exists to fish for information before making any decisions.  Did Antaghla do other things that weren't apparent -- like, is there another obligation I forgot?

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Today at 02:35:10 PMI'm not sure why you're worried about the number of job titles. Public Records exists because we were chopping up the massively overburdened STUFF portfolio - a mega-job which had burned out minister on top of minister because there was just too much to do. And it was much worse before we split Technology out from that. Public Records is mainly putting out La C'hronică, maintaining Infotecă, and everything else remaning from MinSTUFF after we split out Propaganda and DirSTUFF. That's a minor portfolio but it's a job worth doing. If you want to take it on as Seneschal, why not.

I'm not worried, I just want to make some changes that better reflect the way things work.  I think it's fine the way you did things, but I'd prefer not to have people with so many jobs stacked on them.

Honestly, I almost think that we might want to make things more fluid intentionally, so that responsibilities can be assigned as better suits the staff available.  It might be time to revamp the whole system.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Today at 02:21:16 PMPlus, there's still jobs with much less work.  MinFor, for example. 

That's a policy choice on your part.

I'm not sure why you're worried about the number of job titles. Public Records exists because we were chopping up the massively overburdened STUFF portfolio - a mega-job which had burned out minister on top of minister because there was just too much to do. And it was much worse before we split Technology out from that. Public Records is mainly putting out La C'hronică, maintaining Infotecă, and everything else remaning from MinSTUFF after we split out Propaganda and DirSTUFF. That's a minor portfolio but it's a job worth doing. If you want to take it on as Seneschal, why not.

Thank you, Your Majesty.  I know that this is a formality, but it's a nifty one, and I appreciate that Your Grace is willing to indulge us.

Well, I guess you could also have two bills, and put in triggering clauses in each that they only come into effect if the other one does too.  That seems more complicated to me, but it's probably just a matter of taste.

Sure, but that didn't really work out in practice.  That's why two people had nine jobs between them in your Cabinet -- I mean, as we've established, Public Records wasn't really much of a job.   And that's okay!  I have some people doubling up, too.

Plus, there's still jobs with much less work.  MinFor, for example.  A-X usually doesn't have much to do (although not this time!) and MinFin usually doesn't do much.  There's plenty of jobs to go around, still.  But eleven posts is an unrealistically large number right now.

This might just come down to different management styles, also.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Today at 02:16:14 PMReally?  As it's written, the effects of the bill would start if and only if both a full year has passed and it was ratified.  I think I did it right, anyway.

The wording in OrgLaw IV.2.1 is that statutory changes to party seats "will not take effect until the next election following the passage of a calendar year", and it seems counterintuitive that the statutory change should be rendered null and void even though a technically unrelated referendum handling a separate issue fails. Trying to unify both changes into one bill like this seems much more complicated than to have them be separate bills, though I sincerely appreciate your help.