#strategic decision making

[aditi2987]

How HRMS Can Simplify Freelance Contract Management

In today’s increasingly gig-based economy, businesses rely heavily on freelancers to support various functions. However, managing freelance contracts can be a daunting task, especially when dealing with multiple freelancers, different project scopes, and varying payment structures. This is where a Human Resource Management System (HRMS) becomes an invaluable tool for streamlining the process, reducing administrative burdens, and ensuring compliance.

Here’s a detailed look at how an HRMS simplifies freelance contract management:

1. Centralized Contract Repository for Easy Access

One of the main challenges of managing freelance contracts is keeping them organized and accessible. Traditionally, contracts are often scattered across email inboxes, shared folders, or individual hard drives, which makes retrieval difficult. An HRMS serves as a centralized repository where all freelance contracts are securely stored.

Benefit: With all contracts in one place, managers and HR personnel can quickly find any contract, check the terms, renewal dates, and payment schedules with ease. This reduces the risk of misplaced contracts and helps maintain a clear overview of all freelance engagements.

2. Automated Contract Creation and Versioning

Creating contracts manually can be time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when a business engages freelancers frequently. An HRMS can automate contract creation by offering templates that can be customized based on specific project needs, payment structures, and legal requirements.

Benefit: Instead of drafting a contract from scratch each time, HR teams can use pre-approved templates, which ensure consistency and compliance. Automated contract management also allows for version tracking, ensuring that any modifications are accurately documented and easy to access.

3. Contract Lifecycle Management with Automated Alerts

Freelance contracts often come with specific timeframes, renewal dates, and project milestones. An HRMS can track these timelines and send automated reminders when important dates approach, such as contract renewals, project deadlines, or the end of a freelancer’s term.

Benefit: These automated alerts help businesses stay on top of contractual obligations, preventing lapses in service or unexpected contract expirations. This is particularly useful for projects that involve long-term collaborations where renewing contracts in a timely manner is critical.

4. Seamless Payment Integration

One of the trickiest parts of freelance management is handling varied payment structures. Freelancers may be paid hourly, per project, or based on specific milestones, which can make manual invoicing complicated. Many HRMS solutions integrate payment features or connect with external payroll systems, simplifying this process.

Benefit: The HRMS can automatically calculate payments based on hours logged, work completed, or project milestones achieved. By integrating with financial tools or payroll systems, businesses can process payments accurately and on time, ensuring there are no delays or discrepancies that could harm freelancer relationships.

5. Task and Time Tracking for Accurate Invoicing

Tracking the work that freelancers complete is essential for accurate payment and performance assessment. Modern HRMS platforms often come with built-in task management and time tracking tools. Freelancers can log their hours, and project managers can track progress on deliverables within the system.

Benefit: This reduces the risk of disputes over work completed or hours logged. By using the HRMS to track tasks and time, both freelancers and managers have a clear, transparent record of the work done, which ensures accurate and timely invoicing.

6. Legal Compliance and Tax Management

Freelance contracts must meet legal requirements, and businesses need to ensure compliance with labor laws and tax regulations. A robust HRMS can help by including necessary clauses in contracts, automating the collection of tax forms (e.g., W-9s), and ensuring that the business remains compliant with employment laws that apply to freelancers.

Benefit: This reduces the legal risk associated with freelance engagements. The HRMS can also automate tax-related tasks, such as generating tax forms or applying the appropriate deductions, ensuring that businesses and freelancers meet their tax obligations.

7. Enhanced Communication and Collaboration

Freelancers often work remotely, which can lead to communication gaps, especially when it comes to contract updates, project status, or payment queries. An HRMS offers a communication portal where both freelancers and project managers can share updates, feedback, and important contract modifications.

Benefit: This eliminates the need for lengthy email chains and ensures that both parties have real-time access to crucial project or contract information. The HRMS serves as a single platform where communication related to the contract, work progress, and payment status can be handled efficiently.

8. Performance Management and Contract Evaluation

Over time, businesses need to evaluate the performance of freelancers to determine if they should continue working with them, offer new projects, or make changes to the contract terms. An HRMS can track performance metrics, such as the quality of work delivered, adherence to deadlines, and reliability.

Benefit: This data-driven approach allows businesses to make informed decisions about future collaborations, and reward high-performing freelancers with additional projects or long-term contracts. It also helps identify any performance issues early on, giving managers the opportunity to address concerns or terminate contracts if necessary.

9. Customizable Reports for Strategic Decision Making

With an HRMS, businesses can generate detailed reports on freelance contract management, payments, project progress, and other critical metrics. These reports can be customized based on business needs, allowing managers to make strategic decisions regarding freelance engagements.

Benefit: Customized reports provide insights into freelance costs, productivity, and ROI, enabling businesses to optimize their freelance workforce. These reports can also aid in budget planning, ensuring that freelance work remains cost-effective.

Conclusion

Freelance contract management, when handled manually, can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and prone to errors. An HRMS simplifies this entire process by automating key tasks such as contract creation, payment processing, and task tracking. It ensures legal compliance, enhances communication, and provides valuable insights into freelancer performance.

A platform like uKnowva HRMS can take this to the next level by offering advanced features tailored specifically for managing freelance contracts. With seamless integration, automated workflows, and real-time communication tools, businesses can manage their freelance workforce with ease, efficiency, and confidence.

By leveraging an HRMS, businesses can streamline freelance management, allowing them to focus more on the strategic value freelancers bring to the organization rather than the administrative burden.

[thesaltyace]

Y'all I did NOT know this about Harris, and I think it's really critical that we all listen and understand as we approach this election. Video at the end.

This creator's video describes how progressive Harris was as a prosecutor -- actively going against the grain to the point she was accused of being soft on crime. Accused of being a social worker, not a prosecutor. She calls it being smart on crime. She's pushing for systemic changes to give real pathways to reintegrate incarcerated folks back into society and prevent their past from continuing to haunt them moving forward.

"Kamala's a cop" is a catchy dismissive response usually used to shut down conversation rather than add nuance. But this kind of reform is ESSENTIAL to work towards a present and future that treats incarcerated people with value.

I fell for it in 2020 and have thought "Kamala's a cop" without further inspection since - and I'm sobered by the realization that (you guessed it!) I'm not immune to propaganda.

A better system only follows liberal democracy, because library democracy allows for exploration of better systems. If authoritarianism takes hold, it will not allow for the exploration of better systems. We will have to fight tooth and nail just to try to get back to liberal democracy, and I suspect we could not achieve it in our lifetimes.

Harris isn't perfect. But she's a hell of a lot better than many leftists have led me to believe. Don't let perfection be the enemy of good. Don't let perfection be the enemy of harm reduction.

We can either help elect Trump and usher in authoritarian fascism, or we can help defeat him and pull things back in the direction we want to go. Not liking the choices doesn't absolve you from participating and doing the most good you can with the options available.

I'll link the original video in the replies. The original video has captions if you need them.

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[egophiliac]

half a warm-up doodle, half consoling myself because I have thrown so many keys at him and yet he refuses to come home. >:( please sir...your stats are so good and your elements are ones I need...please...

[bicompanyca]

How Research and Markets Companies Can Drive Strategic Decision-Making

As a business, it is always important to have a sound strategy in place. Strategies play an essential role in ensuring that your business is making decisions today that will benefit you tomorrow. Without a strategy, you simply go into work every day and hope for the best. Therefore, building a sound and cohesive business strategy is so important. As you probably know, though, this isn’t easy!

That is why having research and markets companies involved can be so effective to strategy building. If you want to make the right decisions with regards to your businesses long-term strategy, then understanding your market is critical. How, then, can research and markets companies help drive strategic decision-making?

Creating an understanding of your audience

One of the most important benefits of having research and markets companies involved is the ability to know who you are targeting. You might have a set target audience, but over time that audience can shift and adapt. Their needs, interests and requirements might all shift. Having market research companies involved helps you to spot these changes before they are set-in-stone.

Developing an understanding of competition

While your business should only really focus on itself, you do need to understand where your competitors are if you want to build the best overall advantage. As such, market research firms can make it even easier for you to start building and driving a strategic decision-making process. Over time, you can begin to develop an understanding of what your competitors are doing so you can change and adapt.

Building knowledge of new trends

As time moves on, so do the opportunities and trends of society. The people who you target primarily might have a new set of priorities when it comes to the use of your business. They might have new objectives, or different reasons for needing your help. Understanding this helps to drive a more cohesive approach to trendsetting, making sure that you are not left behind by the latest innovations.

Spotting missed opportunities

Another major benefit of research and market companies assisting in strategic decision making is spotting gaps in the market. They might be able to spot an increasing trend for consumers in your target market searching for a specific solution to a problem. If your competitors are not yet picking up on this, you can swoop in and position yourself as the market leader on this new opportunity that exists.

Refining your message and approach

Lastly, a market research firm can spot changes in everything that happens in your market. This includes the kind of messaging that is getting through with your target audience. The slogans you use today might not work forever: when you need to make a change, having market research firms spot opportunities can be critical. Over time, this helps you to build a more cohesive message that stands out.

The above reasons can give you a clear reason why you should involve market research firms in your decision making process. Over time, this should help you to build a better business method and ensure that your business is more likely to achieve the success that you set out to find.

[happyk44]

Jason who immediately loses respect for people who don't own up to their mistakes vs Annabeth who would rather die than admit she made a mistake

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

if flint from episode 1 was magically granted all the knowledge and memories he had in episode 38 do you think it would change anything

[oddly-casual]

I think Mutant Mayhem is the first tmnt propriety to make Leo my favorite turtle right off the bat.

Not that I don’t like Leo anywhere else, but usually it takes me like a second rewatch or something to really pick apart Leo’s character in full to appreciate him- and even then he’s usually not my favorite.

But MM Leo is my favorite for reasons I cannot identify.

Maybe it’s the way he walks, his cringe fail personality, I don’t know but I care about this loser so much.

Idk he cares so much abt his siblings despite the fact that they can be so mean to him sometimes. He is also the one who continually pushes to do the right thing when theres nothing (or even sometimes worst things) to gain from it.

Even his attempts at being cool come off as dorkish but it’s charming in a way only little kids can be. In a ‘you’re doing your best sweetie’. Leo is a single mother of three while also being a teenage boy, that takes work.

He’s such a silent but calculating character, ironically when he doesn’t try so hard and does what he feels is right he gets the best results (ie his leader speech, the plan to be accepted, gaining the acceptance of other mutants) for all his fumbling and try hard attitude he has such natural potential it’s insane.

[beanghostprincess]

we gotta start giving luffy more credit for his emotional intelligence and empathy because i don't think y'all are aware of how fucking smart this lil dude really is

[towerartt]

I wonder if Jack sticks with forearm lasers because, despite how many years have passed since Angel's involuntary momslaughter, the sound of rapid-fire still makes him uneasy.

[my-deer-friend]

There's a new game coming out called King's Orders, and the premise is so good.

King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.

Now I'm thinking that it would be so cool to customise this game for historical sequences of correspondence. It's hard as a historian to step away from a teleological sense of inevitability – of course things worked out that way, because... they did! – so this might open up new perspectives on how decisions were made, given scant, inaccurate, delayed, confused and incomplete communications.

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

ok i totally get if like, a massive area that's too much work needs to be cut but boy it went from this to tadpole information dump speedrun which is ahahaha a choice (x)

[kindlythevoid]

Me, upon receiving one (1) SORTA mean, maybe-off comment out of hundreds of super nice comments that I love, now staring for even MORE hours at the draft of the next chapter I need to write: Well, fuck. Now what? Also Me, .02 seconds later, gritting my teeth and strategizing: Well, I write this fanfic for me. This is my fanfic. People can think what they like. I will take this comment and use it to think of new ways to improve my writing, but I will not internalize it. I write this fanfic for me. This is my fanfic. People can think what they like. I will take this comment and use it to think of new ways to improve my writing, but I will not internalize it. I write this fanfic for ME. This is MY fanfic. People can think what they like--

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia

Hope you dont mind but UtB Temsen scares me. Like... there are things about him that just make me feel very unsafe lol.

I'm not sure whether you intended for him to have such a threatening undercurrent but if I existed in the Underline universe I'd stay far far away from him. It's strange because I don't get that same sense of foreboding from Gary or Augus and I'm wondering whether that because Gary has a pov and Augus is simply not present much. But idk.

I get a sense that there's an extreme darkness beneath peak alpha Temsen's character. Like, he apparently cares about omegas enough to go into a rage on their behalf and later work at Hillview but then does and says things that are like the exact opposite Like admitting that he would've raped Ef if Ef had been given to him instead of Gary and would've done it despite witnessing first hand through his profession the type of trauma that sexual abuse causes. And the fact that forced sex would've been the first thing on his mind instead of investigating further and finding the source of the pain? Yeah that's... kind of chilling actually.

So in his mind, rape isn't ok if it's committed by other alphas (like ones at different facilities) but it's ok if he commits it?

And then reading some of your responses about how Temsen is with his one night stands, or how he'd potentially be with Gwyn, and it just solidifies my belief that even though he can be nice sometimes, he is not a nice person.

If i was an omega sent to Hillview, I would be horrified to even be in the same room as him. His kindness and goodwill seem extremely conditional and feels like it could turn around any moment if someone isn't "respectful" enough. Like, he didn't like Ef talking back to him and I have a suspicion that his reaction to it would've been worse if Ef was his instead of Gary's. Temsen seems to treat patients best when they're polite, passive and obedient, which are usually trauma responses and he knows that, but (judging by his behaviour/responses) still prefers it?

I also think his cheerful bedside manner is a mask he puts on and it hides something very dark and very ugly that not even Gary and Augus possess.

As you can probably tell I have quite strong feelings about Temsen lol. Most of them not good.

Please don't take this the wrong way, these aren't judgements! I just want to express and share my feelings about him as a reader. And maybe get your thoughts as well? I would literally read an entire essay dedicated to his character to see if I could see him in a new light.

I think the fact that he's not a pov character doesn't help him much. But then you've written other non pov characters before and none of them have made me feel like this so maybe it's just a UtB Temsen thing.

If you have the time and energy to spare, I'd love and appreciate your thoughts on his character. I always love reading your responses.

Thank you

<3

This ask is almost as long as my ask responses sdlakfjsda

And my response is VERY LONG so under a cut it goes:

Okay so, first things first, by our world standards, all of the alphas in Underline the Black are rapists. All of them. Every single one we've met so far. From the kind and caring Janusz who did not in any way obtain any kind of consent before raping Nate lovingly repeated times, to Anton who might get consent from Flitmouse this time but certainly hasn't in the past during heats, to Gary who has done god knows what to alphas before abandoning them, to Caleb who does not contain full and willing consent from the omegas he fucks and certainly puts the dubious in dubcon when he's with Faber.

So let's be blunt here, if we're going to be looking at these characters from like, our personal standards, they're all rapists. All of them. Some of them are nicer and friendlier than others, but this is a world where obtaining full and lucid consent from omegas in heat is literally impossible, and where rehabilitation facilities often make choices to put the physical health of an omega (i.e. the resolution of a heat) before the emotional or psychological health (i.e. letting the omega go through unfulfilled agony just to wait until they can get true consent).

When we look at almost all omegaverse stories through this lens, almost every single character becomes a rapist and/or capable of rape. It's one of the reasons so many of us like it so much, it's so good for rape fantasy + romance, and it fulfills a lot of the roles that oldschool Mills & Boon and Bodice Ripper romance used to fulfill. A lot of 'I hate it until I love it, and now I also love you.'

One of the things omegaverse does within the universe is create a culture where everyone just accepts this as normal, because heats exist and they must be fulfilled, because they can be fatal - and certainly agonising - if they're not. This is a world that has, by and large, decided that people dying of pain has more value than obtaining real and informed consent. Believe it or not, our world is also like this sometimes. Especially around certain medical emergencies.

In the specific context you're mentioning re: Temsen admitting he would have raped Efnisien, he's making it very clear that he would have done it in response to Efnisien's physical agony due to being in heat, and he says this in a regretful way, in the tone of someone who knows he would have been wrong to do that, after literally saving Efnisien's life during surgery, and I feel like you're really cherry picking Temsen's words here to justify how you feel about him, which is awesome - you can do that!

But if you bring it to me, I'm going to show the whole sequence of dialogue to demonstrate that he had a lot of humanity around this sentiment, instead of the absence of sentiment and humanity:

'I am sorry,' Temsen said with his formal forthright way of speaking. Gary hadn't expected the apology at all. 'I've had to put Efnisien first as my patient quite a few times over the last few days, but it leaves you neglected, and I don't mean the PACS, Gary. I...am doing a terrible job of being sympathetic to your circumstances. It would be easier, I think, if your actions didn't have a direct impact on Efnisien’s welfare. It’s hard to think when he’s in agony.'  'I know.'  'I keep thinking about the pain he's grown accustomed to. I'm... And on another matter, I think I'm in the strange position of realising an alpha who's that vulnerable has a kind of appeal, if I'm being honest. I think I might see you as a rival.' Gary lifted his eyebrows to indicate what he thought of that, and Temsen laughed.  'It's not a serious rivalry,' Temsen said. Gary didn’t think it was, or he’d be unable to be relaxed about it. 'I don't want him, he's too much work. But I'm pleased to have identified why I've been in such a strange state. I think it started off as protectiveness and became that thread of: 'Here's an alpha not doing a good enough job with him, I know I'd do better.' Realistically, I'm not sure I would. I'm not as kind as you are, for a start.' 'Kind?' 'I would have fucked him as soon as I knew he was in heat,' Temsen said, smiling slowly. 'Which would have been a nightmare, given the surgery he needed for a start. You're far kinder than I am, Gary, for all that you're a small-minded, petty tyrant, when it comes to your grief.' 

So the specific piece of dialogue you're referring to, is Temsen referring to a hypothetical situation where he suspects he would have done the wrong thing, and it would have been literally 'a nightmare' (his words) and he discloses that he knows he wouldn't be as good a match to Efnisien as Gary is, and also apologises for putting Gary second because he's had to put Efnisien first due to the agony he's been in.

That's the sequence in which he discloses that he'd hypothetically have raped Efnisien.

Which, incidentally, is similar circumstances in which characters like Nate and other omegas on-site do get raped by their alphas. Nate didn't consent, couldn't consent, and would have withdrawn consent multiple times. Is Janusz regretting that? He absolutely is. Will he stop? No! That's...the trope, and it's what I love writing, and it's why Underline the Blue and Underline the Black have a black box Rape/Noncon warning - not because of the histories of these characters, but because of their current relationship.

"And the fact that forced sex would've been the first thing on his mind instead of investigating further and finding the source of the pain?"

Yeah, that's literally the job! You'll note that Nate doesn't get a medical/surgical examination by anyone before his pain / heat is solved by sex with Janusz (if you haven't read Underline the Blue yet, that's what happens). That's extremely standard. For about 99.9999% of omegas and anyone going into heat, the source of the pain is the heat. This is also happening in Underline the Gold but those chapters aren't on AO3 yet.

It would be really unusual if he did assume the pain was caused by something other than the heat. And the only reason he did consider it is that he knows Efnisien's prior medical history.

Hope you dont mind but UtB Temsen scares me.

I don't mind! It's literally canon that he scares and intimidates many of the characters, including Flitmouse, Efnisien (at times), Nate, Janusz (to a point), and Anton (at times). The threatening undercurrent is there because many characters canonically say they find him intimidating or frightening, because they have felt nauseous around him, and because of explicit canon details about things he's done in the past, as well as being extremely pragmatic about admitting to wanting to harm or kill people.

So in his mind, rape isn't ok if it's committed by other alphas (like ones at different facilities) but it's ok if he commits it?

In context of what I said above re: all alphas being rapists in this story, it's more like:

Raping maliciously to intentionally cause harm because you enjoy it isn't permissible. Raping to save someone from physiological agony, when there's no other safe way to deal with it, is. That's...why Hillview exists. They don't see it that way, because their culture is different to ours: Heats exist, and alphas exist. That radically changes the entirety of their culture.

And that's why the story is tagged as a Dystopian Universe story. Because that's dark as fuck.

And then reading some of your responses about how Temsen is with his one night stands, or how he'd potentially be with Gwyn, and it just solidifies my belief that even though he can be nice sometimes, he is not a nice person.

Yes! He says this himself! :D He knows this better than anyone and that's why among other reasons, he's not an alpha companion and he's not interested in being one.

He knows his flaws, he's the one who told you his flaws, he says canonically and more than once that he doesn't see himself as especially kind or nice, he even says it in the sequence above where he admits that he would have assaulted Efnisien. Your belief is his belief, and it's a belief he shared with the readers and has shared with other characters. This isn't something Temsen hides from, and it's also not something he indulges, that's why he's not an alpha companion.

If i was an omega sent to Hillview, I would be horrified to even be in the same room as him.

Many of them are. If you haven't read them yet, you might want to look at Underline the Gold in particular, and sections of Underline the Blue, where the omegas freely admit they find Temsen at best intimidating and overwhelming. Flitmouse comes straight out and accuses Temsen of threatening him, and Temsen baldly admits that he is. And then he keeps doing it.

That doesn't mean they still don't prefer him over the other doctors they've seen though - *points forever at the Dystopian Universe* tag. Nowhere in this story are we saying he's a good consent-focused story, but we are saying this is a fucked up world where he might be the best an omega ever gets in their life.

His kindness and goodwill seem extremely conditional and feels like it could turn around any moment if someone isn't "respectful" enough. Like, he didn't like Ef talking back to him and I have a suspicion that his reaction to it would've been worse if Ef was his instead of Gary's.

Absolutely, again, that's why Temsen isn't an alpha companion.

But also, he's a peak alpha. Gary is quite unusual in enjoying the way Efnisien talks back to him, it's so unusual for peak alphas that he basically has a kink for it at this point and it's a fetish rather than like...a realistic representation of peak alphas.

Temsen seems to treat patients best when they're polite, passive and obedient, which are usually trauma responses and he knows that, but (judging by his behaviour/responses) still prefers it?

Highly recommend you read Underline the Blue and Underline the Gold, where he actively praises omegas for standing up to him!

In this sequence, Flitmouse is defending his right to death by starvation (cw anorexia and other disordered eating) and fires up:

'I've been- But I've been eating here!' said Flitmouse. Temsen's smile was sad. 'I always love when an omega can fire up a bit more around me. I appreciate you sharing this with me. It's safe to speak your mind around me. I just selfishly wish you weren't defending your right to starve to death so passionately. I'm glad you've been eating here. Keep doing it. Try to do it a little more. That's all I'm asking.

Please don't take this the wrong way, these aren't judgements!

I mean, they are judgements :D I just don't take it the wrong way because it's normal to have strong feelings about a complex and morally grey character, and Temsen is definitely that!

In addition, a lot of what you've written out is stuff that I have explicitly written out into the story, they're things Temsen has told you / other characters about himself. He is his own biggest warning, and he is very aware of his flaws and the reality of his nature, if he desperately wanted to rape omegas, don't you think he'd have chosen to be a companion by now? He certainly could have, very easily. None of this stuff is hidden or swept away, these are things Temsen puts front and centre, and then it's up to others how much they see that or don't see it. But Temsen also puts other aspects of himself front and centre which you (and others) choose to ignore or think are false, which I think is created by the tempting trap that if someone has very awful qualities, all their good qualities must be a lie or a mask.

And that's not reflective of how complex people (and characters) really are. But it's a lot easier to deal with a character when we can sweep them into the 'I just don't like them' box or the 'I just like them and I don't see the bad stuff' box.

Temsen's good qualities are very real. He's dedicated his entire life to omega QOL improvements, and has created those tangible improvements in a dystopian universe. If he was a 'normal' peak alpha, he would have euthanased Efnisien the first day he arrived on site - maybe he would have raped him first. This is very very much a dystopian universe. I'm not going to try to convince you that he's 'good' because that's very simplistic, he does very good, and even heroic things, and he does very bad, and sometimes really awful things. These are just facts about him. And then it's up to other people to decide where their line is re: liking him or not.

In fact of all the characters we've met, Janusz has raped someone on the page and Gary has (re: Efnisien), we know Anton has historically for work, and Augus.

The only significant alpha who hasn't ever done this to omegas is actually Temsen.

The most important thing to me personally is that all Temsen has told you so far is speculative. He speculates that he would have raped Efnisien, but he actually saves his life. He speculates that he's not very kind, and then puts Efnisien first and sacrifices sleep for him to find articles that will make him more comfortable. (I would tender here that you're believing his hypotheticals over his repeated actions) He doesn't tolerate disrespect from an alpha, because that's how alpha rapists are created (he is stern with Efnisien because he's an alpha, because alphas who are allowed to disrespect others become like Gwyn or Christian or Vadim), but he accepts it often from omegas, who are vulnerable and need to learn how to speak up.

That's what's important to me! But I also think he's a dick, lol, and I like that about him. I don't need a character to be good or pure to love the shit out of them, and that's how I end up writing a world where almost every alpha is a rapist to some degree, and most folks still end up giving them a pass anyway, because the stories are fun and entertaining, and these people and world's aren't real.

TL;DR: Temsen is a complex character capable of healing, heroic, cruel and controlling actions, and I think you're cherry picking certain parts of his dialogue / actions to justify how you feel about him while missing others, which is absolutely your prerogative as a reader! But honestly, if you just don't like a character, or find them too dark, you don't need a reason for it - you can just not like 'em - feelings are the most irrational things we have, after all, and often resist logical justification. :D I'm not really trying to change your mind here tbh, feelings are feelings, but I am the kind of person who will point out the inconsistencies in a discussion, especially when invited to sdlkfjsa