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III Fuck You Itzel - A Chronic Issue.
Let's talk about Itzel.
I really don’t know if I need to talk about Itzel as the name is so well known, and so well documented to be a problem that just saying the name triggers a memory and a sigh from most of the player base. Post after post year after year there has been someone who has had problems with Itzel.
I don’t blame Itzel for being Itzel as much as I blame Wyrom, who we will get to later, for allowing Itzel to continue.
I have worked in fields where we have run into a “bull dog” type employee, brought charges on prison systems where they had this one guy who they always called when things were going harsh and they knew the ol’ bull dog would run in a whip some ass and bring the population in line. The drill instructor who you keep in the back and pull out to scare the recruits. The hammer you send out to the field to bring failing stores back into the fold.
The problem with these “enforcer persona” people is it becomes the entire personality and leads to predictable problems, the guard goes too far and someone gets injured needlessly, the drill instructor gets too physical, the field worker ends up driving off workers instead of correcting them. That is Itzel.
Those personas exist in a state of forward momentum that rarely allows them to let off the gas, Itzel was caught in a lie and her response was to ban people who pointed it out. That is always her response, it doesn’t matter if she is actuall caught in a lie or someone is just saying it she is someone who sees everything as a hole and by god she is going to fuck it.
In Itzel’s case, this enforcer persona seems to have metastasized. It’s no longer about solving problems. It’s about showing dominance, Wyrom lacks the tools to handle this rogue element and it shows.
These types don’t usually burn out on their own. They get stopped. Or protected, and indeed the protected ones normally lead to the largest problems in my experience. And in Itzel’s case, she has been protected. That’s not her fault. That’s the fault of leadership….of Wyrom…for keeping the weapon pointed outward and never asking what happens when it starts misfiring inside the system, for having no other tool he can use but Itzel, and for failing to build his team in such a way they check this behavior instead of enable and escalate it.
Speaking of Wyrom….
