I think so? I mean, if status can be high or low, that does imply a ranking. I don’t know how detailed they get about it, but I think the idea is to have a hierarchy when you’re finished.
can probably make higher-status requests than I can
I don’t even have that. I just do whatever makes sense for the situation and then when people behave in a way that makes what I’m doing dysfunctional, I go “What the heck?” Then, I look at it in hindsight and go “Oh, yeah. Status games exist. Right.”
This is probably not good, but considering my level of motivation, it’s going to take a while for me to learn to think of these things in advance...
I have an unfortunate tendency to also run head-long in to “right, the reason this isn’t working is that I don’t have sufficient status to make that request”, and then being very puzzled. I’d been slowly mapping this out beforehand, but this revelation was apparently a useful insight in to doing a quick, fairly heavy update. Hopefully in the future I will be a lot more aware of why things are failing, even if I’m not otherwise improving :)
I think so? I mean, if status can be high or low, that does imply a ranking. I don’t know how detailed they get about it, but I think the idea is to have a hierarchy when you’re finished.
I don’t even have that. I just do whatever makes sense for the situation and then when people behave in a way that makes what I’m doing dysfunctional, I go “What the heck?” Then, I look at it in hindsight and go “Oh, yeah. Status games exist. Right.”
This is probably not good, but considering my level of motivation, it’s going to take a while for me to learn to think of these things in advance...
I have an unfortunate tendency to also run head-long in to “right, the reason this isn’t working is that I don’t have sufficient status to make that request”, and then being very puzzled. I’d been slowly mapping this out beforehand, but this revelation was apparently a useful insight in to doing a quick, fairly heavy update. Hopefully in the future I will be a lot more aware of why things are failing, even if I’m not otherwise improving :)