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“Simple Sabotage Field Manual” by United States. Office of Strategic Services is a historical publication written during the early 1940s, amid World War II. This manual acts as a guide for ordinary civilians to conduct simple acts of sabotage against enemy operations without the need for specialized training or equipment. Its main topic revolves around promoting small, accessible forms of resistance that could collectively disrupt the enemy’s war effort.
Very early in my career I realized how much a business (or any organization) depends on heroes to survive crises. You can make up as many procedures as you want, but when shit starts hitting fans the people who save your organizational ass are the ones who skip their mandatory breaks, come in all weekend during the crunch, and figure out what to do when there’s no procedure. The best way to sabotage MAGAcism in a crisis is work as slowly as you can get away with, and follow procedures exactly no matter how poorly they fit the situation.
This is why the stormtroopers all miss
When I was in the Army, deployed to Afghanistan, a bunch of junior soldiers (E-4 and below) came in from the field and wanted to get paid. They needed to wait in line at my little office inside of a hardened building. They were talking amongst themselves in the hall while they waited their turn. There were probably 50 of them. A master sergeant (E-7) came in and started yelling at the soldiers telling them to behave like soldiers and get next to the wall and wait quietly without talking. All the soldiers snapped to attention and went silent in a tight single file line against the wall. This dickhead master sergeant then walked past all of the soldiers who had been waiting in line, walked up to the front counter of my office and submitted some paperwork to have his housing allowance changed back in the states because his dependents had moved. I didn’t have the rank to argue with him so I smiled and gave him the most polite customer service you could expect from a military finance office. As soon as he left, I put his paperwork directly into the paper shredder (a crime). My fellow finance soldiers saw me do it and laughed. Fuck him for using his rank to cut in line. A non-commissioned officer should put the junior soldiers first and never use their rank to get special privileges. His paperwork got lost. It happens.
The CIA wrote a manual on how to do this. It’s a bit old and parts of it are outdate for some times of work, but a lot of it is still useful.
- Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders
- Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products
- Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done (some might say normal businesses do this as a matter of course…)
- Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible
Shit, 80% of the people I work with must have read that manual then. That’s a near daily occurrence.
When I worked in the private sector every mistake was percieved as malicious intent by management.
just compliment their tie while you’re doing it. their egos can’t focus on two things at a time. Especially when there is a compliment boost in the room.
That’s a sign of toxic management that almost always indicates incompetence.
context: today is may 1st and we were all supposed to strike today.
that’s why context is important, OP. please don’t assume everyone knows what you know. the information in our heads is different from the information in your head. it’s called theory of mind and most people develop it in early childhood. idiot.
Every day is a good day to strike against oppressive establishment.
If I somehow live to reach retirement, I’m not going to retire. I’m just going to go on permanent strike.
Bikeshed the shit out of everything.
Nazi Germany might have killed less Jews if they spent an excessive amount of time in meetings about which tile to use in the gas chambers.
Edit: "As per mine previous telegram, zee Führer does not vant to spend zee time and money to create a swastika mosaic in zee gas chambers vhen vee are already EIGHT MONTHS BEHIND SCHEDULE!! Please review zee color options vee discussed at our last meeting and let me know how you could like to proceed as soon as possible.
Most sincerely,
Colonel Wilhelm Klink"
Wilhelm Klink was the British top agent Nimrod. He and Schultz were fully aware about Hogan’s operation and in fact made sure they would not only not be interfered with, but facilitated.
