I found this little gem over at Relicforums which I am now a moderator since August. I’ve been working my way up the ranks for nearly three years now. Well this is an excellent example of perfect grammatical structure with no actual meaning. I challenge you to find out what the hell he is trying to say.
When someone does his job, a good job, the job you’d expect him to do because that was the agreement you both had, OR AND, his sense of integrity allows, that is the LEAST he will do, plus that is what you would ideally want to see; when he does that job does he deserve a bonus? Does he deserve extra reward for fulfilling his end of the deal?
Other Considerations
His brothers don’t fulfill their ends of their deals, or have little integrity. Their standards are lower than his, so their contract partners are often disappointed. Does this give you perspective, yes, but does it also cause you to place a premium on his integrity? So do you then reward him so he would feel appreciated and continue doing well.
There’s also the probability that your sisters expect too much or too little from him in return for what they offer him. What dynamic does that present? It depends on how steady he is; would he be swayed to overcompensate when they want too much, or would be encouraged to slack off when they accept little.
Is there an ideal situation in all of this? What are his responsibilities to you, and yours to him? For those of you following me so far, you’d realise this isn’t the best comparison to the status quo, but allow me to extrapolate, and thus elaborate.
He makes you an offer, outlining the conditions, and you accept. If based on certain variables there is a problem with his initial offer, you make your problems clear, and he would with all haste rectify the problem. Some of your sisters wouldn’t have seen the problem but he would have seen it himself and rectified it; again, some of your sisters would’ve been more demanding, impatient, and scathing of the oversight or mistake on his part, while some of his brothers would simply refuse to fix it.
The ideal, is a balance between patience and integrity on one hand, and scrutiny/cynicism and professionalism/perfectionism on the other.
The good thing about his forum, and exposure to wider cultures than my own, is to see that there is little difference among peoples across the world, mediocrity in all things seems to be standard. People accept mediocrity from others, and even worse, mediocrity from themselves. Congratulations to the people who ‘police’ themselves.
