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How To Not Do Things, Thursday, Period One
"One thing that helps you not do things," April said, drumming her fingers on her desk, "delegating." Oh, how she loved to delegate. "If you don't know what that is, you probably have a dictionary app on your phone."
Wasn't that helpful?
"The official point of delegating in the office is so people can specialize in stuff they're good at, or whatever," she explained. "But a fun side bonus is that it has this effect like when you have a box of six cupcakes and you share a few 'cause you figure you'll still have a bunch and then they're gone. But in this case, the cupcakes are work, so that's a good thing."
Ew, work cupcakes. They probably tasted like pistachio.
"Now, there's a few ways to get people to do work for you. I like to go with threats, but that's a personal preference. There's also flattery, comical underestimation of the time committment, blackmail, bribery, and straight-up lying. All you guys get to come up and make a two-minute speech trying to pawn off your work to us, and if it's good, you... get to leave. Or something."
She shrugged, and pointed at a kid at random. "You're up."
Wasn't that helpful?
"The official point of delegating in the office is so people can specialize in stuff they're good at, or whatever," she explained. "But a fun side bonus is that it has this effect like when you have a box of six cupcakes and you share a few 'cause you figure you'll still have a bunch and then they're gone. But in this case, the cupcakes are work, so that's a good thing."
Ew, work cupcakes. They probably tasted like pistachio.
"Now, there's a few ways to get people to do work for you. I like to go with threats, but that's a personal preference. There's also flattery, comical underestimation of the time committment, blackmail, bribery, and straight-up lying. All you guys get to come up and make a two-minute speech trying to pawn off your work to us, and if it's good, you... get to leave. Or something."
She shrugged, and pointed at a kid at random. "You're up."
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All day.
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When in doubt, she went straight to bribery.
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"All right, meatbags, listen up!!!" he declared. Then he yawned, and licked his shoulder for a few moments.
After standing there and staring at everyone a little bit longer, he turned to April. "What was I supposed to be doing, again?"
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She was a great teacher like that.
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