How to Get Someone to Do Their Job

I had an office job at one point. I was well and truly the lowest person on the org chart, so much so that they would have needed an extra piece of paper tacked onto the bottom of the chart to accurately reflect my position.

That said, one of my daily duties was to make sure that everyone used the time-tracking software every day to record their billable hours. It was one of my favorite parts of the job, because I got to browbeat people who made much more money and had much more power than me. The people I harassed were fine with it, because they got to ignore me without any fear. Our communal boss got to blame everyone but himself for the fact that the hours weren’t getting recorded the way he wanted.

In a way, it was a perfect system.

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