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ORIGINAL: DominaSmartass

I would be bringing the issue to the highest level of management for some sort of disciplinary action.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

   So I'm training my replacement at work (it's a good thing) a role you have agreed to do.but he's a complete rookie as you were once. to the kind of equipment we run.  I've been doing this, off and on, for better than 20 years.  And thus very skilled, and perhaps the best teacher of this skill to a rookie.There's no way to transfer my experience, but I'm trying to give him a foundation to build on,sure you are and drive home the importance of keeping safety the first prioritythe importance of which appear wasted upon yourself.  I have 3 more days to do this.

   But the sadist is creeping out.  I found myself today, NOT giving him an important tip when performing maintainence, just so I could watch him get frustrated and skin a knuckle.  I can rationalize it any number of waysyour post is littered with them my dear:  Scratches and scrapes are a way of life in this gig, we need to know if he's going to be a total wimpwhy? you should be accepting of the risks, but doing all you can to minimise the negative impact;  I wanted to assess his mechanical problem solving skills; that lessons learned the hard way 'stick' betteronly for masochists i think you'll find, as we only learn by having behaviour re-inforced.  I'd be lying though.Really?

    I knew he was going to rip the skin right off his knuckle the way he was doing it, and I decided to watch< right there! that's where i got squicked..  He showed up 20 minutes late with a lame excuse instead of an apologyProbably.  It cost him This is how i see it deteriorate, at this point..

     I was in a hurry to get done and come home today.  Tomorrow, I'm looking to put a few hours of OT on that final paycheck.  He might have a very hard day.Im unsure if you are suggesting that you are going to financially give him more money for payment as your pain taker. Or you are going to work extra hours, to give you more access to the rookie.

     The question is this,  Since I'm the teacher, and he asked to be the studentAnd you accepted the task of having him by consent. All be it from default, you never spoke up and said, no, i cannot do this, can my smirking sadist methods of instruction be considered consensual? Catagorical NO. Hot, maybe. In some fantasy. Had you asked him if you could injure him for 'kicks' and he said, yeah, go ahead, then it would of been consentual. But you did not get consent.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
......    But the sadist is creeping out.  I found myself today, NOT giving him an important tip when performing maintainence, just so I could watch him get frustrated and skin a knuckle.  I can rationalize it any number of ways.......... I'd be lying though...........
.............He showed up 20 minutes late with a lame excuse instead of an apology.  It cost him..........
...........  I was in a hurry to get done and come home today.  Tomorrow, I'm looking to put a few hours of OT on that final paycheck.  He might have a very hard day.........

     The question is this,  Since I'm the teacher, and he asked to be the student, can my smirking sadist methods of instruction be considered consensual?

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ORIGINAL:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadistic_personality_disorder :
"Sadistic personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of cruel, demeaning, and aggressive behavior, beginning by early adulthood, as indicated by the repeated occurrence of at least four of the following:

• Has used physical cruelty or violence for the purpose of establishing dominance in a relationship (not merely to achieve some noninterpersonal goal, such as striking someone in order to rob him or her)
• Humiliates or demeans people in the presence of others
• Has treated or disciplined someone under his or her control unusually harshly.
• Is amused by, or takes pleasure in, the psychological or physical suffering of others (including animals)
• Has lied for the purpose of harming or inflicting pain on others (not merely to achieve some other goal)
• Gets other people to do what he or she wants by frightening them (through intimidation or even terror)
• Restricts the autonomy of people with whom he or she has a close relationship, e.g., will not let spouse leave the house unaccompanied or permit teenage daughter to attend social functions
• Is fascinated by violence, weapons, injury, or torture

The behavior has not been directed toward only one person (e.g., spouse, one child) and has not been solely for the purpose of sexual arousal (as in sexual sadism).

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

    It occurs to me, Domina, that your suggestion is far more sadistic than what I did.  Send him running off, his second day on the job, to whine to the office geeks about a boo-boo.  They know how often this stuff happens, they order the first aid supplies.

    I let him learn a good lesson the hard way.  You would get him permanently labeled as a pain in the ass if not simply let go for his first mistake.

    You're MEAN.  I like that.