LadiesBladewing
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For us, alpha has nothing to do with better treatment--it is a position of increased responsibility. In many ways, our alphas work harder than the servants who answer to them. The alpha is responsible for training, for initial discipline where a servant doesn't seem to understand a required task, for reporting to the Guides about problems or with recommendations for a change in station for a worthy servant-acolyte or servant-dedicant. The alpha assigns individual trainers, inspects the servants and their work, and makes sure that any needs are made known to the Guides.
Our alpha is also the one to whom the servants turn when they are struggling with something, feeling homesick, or battling resentment or anger over misunderstandings about treatment. The alpha is the one who provides the collective servant opinions on potential new members of the abbey household.
Because of this wide range of responsibilities, our alpha has to have an unusual capacity for initiative, innovativeness, people skills, discretion, integrity, honor, and dedication.
The assignment of tasks in our household isn't always equal, and the individuals who serve are not equal either--so at one time or another, one servant might feel 'put out', and another might be bored and feeling 'left out'. These things always balance out over time. This week's bored servant is next week's stress-puppy...and when one servant is done with his or her projects, we -strongly- encourage the communal gift of helping out another person who is overloaded.
I can tell you, though, that laziness and carelessness with tasks would not be among the things that would be allowed to slide here. I can understand "lazy". There are some chores that I completely despise, some that SilverRose can't stand and never could, and some chores that we might choose to let slide--but once something is started, it requires full dedication. Neither of us can be satisfied with ourselves if we do a half-assed job...and we have the same expectation of our servants. Nobody is forced to serve. Even for the person who has an abjectly submissive personality, that person still chooses whether or not to exercise that part of him or herself. To say otherwise is to call all submissive individuals "victims", which, in our experience, they are -not-. Most of them are intelligent, thoughtful, dedicated, individuals who fully accept their natures and choose to serve--and choose whom they will serve (something that we, as Guides, keep in mind, ourselves, since we don't just choose our servants--they choose us as well, and we have a responsibility to them, just as they have lifted burdens from our shoulders.)
Either an individual loves service enough to -want- to serve to his or her best capacity, or he or she would be better investing valuable time, energy, and dedication to something he or she does love.
Lady Zephyr
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I disagree with what the others have said. I feel there is always an alpha female or male. Someone will always get better treatment. By what you said it seems like your the slave only
< Message edited by LadiesBladewing -- 9/3/2005 3:29:44 PM >
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