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# SECTION 5 | OTHER

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## RETIREMENT

Retirements are used for Staff Members that no longer want to be in the Team.

* You can only retire 3 times. Retire more than that and you will be required to reapply.
* You have 1 month to come back, if you don’t come back within a month you will have to re-apply.
* You must open a Management ticket in order to retire or return from retirement.

### REDUCED ACTIVITY (RA)

Reduced activity can be requested if a Staff Member cannot be active. There must be a valid reason for RA. If your on RA you do not need to fully complete your quota but you must do some.

* You can go on RA for minimum 3 days and maximum 1 week.
* Managers+ will check your RA, if they find the reason invalid it will be denied.
* You can submit a RA by doing the "/ra request" command.
* You can manage your RA by doing "/ra admin". Using this command will allow you to end your RA early and extend your RA. Extending your RA will require an approval from Mangers+.
* If you are caught making a fake RA you will be demoted.

### LEAVE OF ABSENCE (LOA)

Leave Of Absence (LOA) can be requested if a Staff Member cannot be active. There must be a valid reason for LOA. If your on LOA you do not need to do any of your quota.

* You can go on LOA for minimum 3 days and maximum 2 weeks.
* Managers+ will check your LOA, if they find the reason invalid it will be denied.
* You can submit a LOA by doing the “/loa request” command.
* You can manage your LOA by doing “/loa admin”. Using this command will allow you to end your LOA early and extend your LOA. Extending your LOA will require an approval from Mangers+.
* If you are caught making a fake LOA, you will be demoted.

### TIMEZONES

We have added a new channel for staff to use, it is timezones. This is so we know if you are able to complete orders or not. It if just quailty of life.\
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If your timezone isnt on the embed please ping a member of the directive team so we can update the embed with your timezone.

{% hint style="info" %}
When doing the RA and LOA request command, make sure to put "Day" as "d" and week as "w". For example "/loa request 1w busy with school".
{% endhint %}