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by AtlasBarfed 166 days ago
You are making things harder for newer hires than the environment you came into. It is a sink over swim strategy that introduces stress without any apparent compensation in training. It creates new bases for evaluation you were not subject to.

Hazing us a cycle of abuse that expresses in a magnification of the abuse inflicted in the hazing than was suffered in the previous cycle.

Maybe you are optimizing your personnel.

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Thanks for this perspective, I think I’ll reconsider this plan (to be clear, haven’t done it) and try to think up some alternative training strategy that doesn’t involve live issues.