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AssPennies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Subterfuge at work, a fun subject to study.

Some of my favorites from a declassified WWII “simple productivity sabotage” manual:

Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.
Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

When I first saw these I was like goddamn, psyops got to my executive director!

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FUBAR@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sounds like how work is done in large corps

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- oce@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or public administration
  
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bearwithastick@feddit.ch ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wow, most of these points just sound like a responsible way to handle all the bullshit wishes from employees. I’m not saying make it unnessecarily painful for employees to request changes. However, I currently work at a company that did the “just do it” approach for years, got big with it and now our department needs to clean up the bullshit of many years to get the company up to code with whatever regulations we are under.

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- 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Generally, too little of something is bad for one reason and too much of something is bad for another reason.
  
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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Don’t order new working materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.”

See also: lean manufacturing

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- pirat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sounds like how I buy shoes and jackets.
  
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slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s I think the CIA sabotage handbook

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- AssPennies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944 (declassified)
  
  Good memory, it was the precursor to the CIA.
  
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atetulo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What’s funny about this is all of this pretty much comes naturally when you’re doing something you don’t want to do without a reason to do it.

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Mango@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
WWII changed their name to BMV I think.

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Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Do you know if there is a book (extensive article) which covers that in detail?

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- slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  CIA sabotage handbook, if I remember correctly
  
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  - Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks, I’ll take a look at.
    
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- AssPennies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944
  
  There’s a link at the top for the full pdf. And do note, OSS is Office of Special Services, the WWII precursor to the CIA - not Open Source Software lol.
  
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  - Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
    
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