Revenge of the procrastinators
Want to really sock it to a procrastinator? Use their tactics against them.
- Get them to ask you to do something important.
- Forget to do it.
- When they remind you, admit you forgot and promise to get it done immediately.
- Tell them it’s done.
- When they subsequently point out it’s still not done admit you delegated it to someone else who messed up and promise to get it done immediately.
- Come up with several reasons why your doing it would not have worked before and remind them you’re doing them a favour.
- Tell them it’s done.
- When they still don’t get the desired results, give them the information to check for themselves to see that it’s done.
- Remind them that it was done.
- When they ask you to help get the needed results, tell them you have spent enough time on this already and cannot do anything more.
So went my attempt to get an academic reference.