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Maxwell Smart

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Sunday, May 21, 2006 07:11 PM
Original article: My high school yearbook staff are all slackers and idiots

Fake 'em out.

No one cares about your freaking yearbook.

Wrong. Replace "yearbook staff" with "programming team" and "faculty advisor" with "project manager" and you have one of the most common workplace gripes.

If you get all of these slackers because your school allows you to skip out of a class period to work on the yearbook, just close that hole and change policy. Or, even more cagily, have your advisor make a lot of noise about changing the policy, scare off the freeloaders, and then revert back to the old policy. Problem solved.

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