CORP/BIZ Advice From The OSS: How To Sabotage Your Workplace
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Txkstew
Veteran Member
I don't know, some of those things are prudent. I had a team leader on a project, who said I was taking too long producing a bunch of Instrument Loop Drawings. He was spitting them out almost twice as fast as me. When we went to squad check, bunches of his had typos, misspellings, omissions, incorrect reference drawings, copy and paste errors, or a piece of text left out in the middle of the drawing for no reason. It might have a notation saying continued on drawing number xxx-xxxx, and there was no such drawing. The Engineer was not happy with him. Mine weren't perfect, but close.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
Whole parts of Reddit are dedicated to these concepts. Malicious Compliance is one of my favorites; when some yutz asks for something remarkably stupid and insists on it because HE / SHE'S IN CHARGE AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT PLEB, you give him / her EXACTLY WHAT HE/SHE WANTS. And then, you wait for them to realize the stupidity of it all. In some cases they will blame you for "misunderstanding" what they wanted, but that can often be fixed by keeping your emails or something similar.
My "Rule of Three" always served me well when I had a really stupid, destructive boss.
Reads:
1-) If he asks me to do something really stupid and destructive once, ignore him.
2-) If he asks me a second time to do something really stupid and destructive, ignore him again.
3-) Only comply the third time - Hahahaha..but he never remembered. Either that or the stupidity and destructiveness of his request finally became apparent even to him.
The other rule that served me well: Always be the one to volunteer to watch the shop while everyone else attends the meeting.
Reads:
1-) If he asks me to do something really stupid and destructive once, ignore him.
2-) If he asks me a second time to do something really stupid and destructive, ignore him again.
3-) Only comply the third time - Hahahaha..but he never remembered. Either that or the stupidity and destructiveness of his request finally became apparent even to him.
The other rule that served me well: Always be the one to volunteer to watch the shop while everyone else attends the meeting.
stop tyranny
Veteran Member
Sounds like standard operating procedure for all domestic state and federal agencies.
Knoxville's Joker
Has No Life - Lives on TB
That is to fund the government black projects and skunk works. What they are building with all that money is the conspiracy and debate...
Tex88
Veteran Member
Let’s have a meeting about this!
subnet
Boot
Yup, my team has to meet with the same damn people 3 times a week and none of it pertains to our work..its retarded beyond belief.
Knoxville's Joker
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Maybe we could use this to prove certain folks are agen provaceteurs at work and quote of key tenants of the manual or even print it out and have it as an article of discussion. And then bring up the point, who is not for making the business more speedy and efficient...
1911user
Veteran Member
There really was an OSS (Office of Strategic Services) during WW2, they became the CIA in the 1947. They had quite a few field manuals and most are probably on the internet like #3: Simple Sabotage Field Manual.
You can read #3 for free here: The Project Gutenberg eBook of Simple Sabotage Field Manual, by Office of Strategic Services
or buy a historical reprint on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Sabotage-Field-Manual-STRATEGIC/dp/1532768001
Signwatcher
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I HATED bank teller meetings and grocery clerk meetings... mandatory (having to go in to work on my day off sure didn't make me happy) and TOTALLY worthless. Nothing EVER changed. People quickly forgot, etc.
Once, while pushing for Battle Creek Township to join the City of Battle Creek, the Bank I worked for had a VERY early mandatory meeting to push and try to brainwash us to accept and vote for it in the upcoming election.
Back then I was a sassy, royal Bit*h (I was pretty so I got away with a lot back then -- also I was highly confrontational and loud) and I DIDN'T want to get up early for some assinine meeting.
So I complained about it a lot, but went. The only perk was they served breakfast.
The guy gave his spiel about how wonderful it will be for the Township (IT WASN'T AND STILL ISN'T) and then he made the mistake of saying, "It will only cost you the price of a cup of coffee a day," (blatant LIE from hell). So I made my move...I quickly and LOUDLY said in a disgusted sarcastic tone: "I DON'T DRINK COFFEE!!!!"My Boss, Shirley McFee, a total hard@ss lady who was a fair woman (she was the Mayor of Battle Creek for a bit) that could hold her own in a man's world, shot me the dirtiest look ever, but I didn't care.
I STILL hate the City of Battle Creek and praise God He got me out of it finally. I pray I don't have to ever move back to there again (it has a habit of sucking former residents back into its web).
Tex88
Veteran Member
That was in 1983 LOL...
And now I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole again. Also, this page doesn't even talk about the many radio programs that company sponsored:
Post Consumer Brands - Wikipedia
Signwatcher
Has No Life - Lives on TB
That was in 1983 LOL...
And now I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole again. Also, this page doesn't even talk about the many radio programs that company sponsored:
Post Consumer Brands - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I was 24 back then.... seems SO long ago.
I don't mind visiting Flake City, I just don't want to check back in.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
Got to do SOMETHING to fill dem forty hours.
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
I don't QUITE udderstand. You can check out whenever you want. Ya just don't get to LEAVE is all.
Griz3752
Retired, practising Curmudgeon
Best wishes on your goal.
I'm sure I'll feel the same about Memphis in early '25 . . . . .
West
Senior
First government job I did, I doubled my bid that I would of done the job for in the private sector. Still left about $5k on the table.
Second government job I bidded. Was the lowest bid by 9%. But lost the job because the minority owned competition was rewarded the job.
This was in the mid 1990s, in California.
We need more government said no one, except for PHD bureaucrats that run our country and are keystone employees that can't be fired.
Second government job I bidded. Was the lowest bid by 9%. But lost the job because the minority owned competition was rewarded the job.
This was in the mid 1990s, in California.
We need more government said no one, except for PHD bureaucrats that run our country and are keystone employees that can't be fired.
Griz3752
Retired, practising Curmudgeon
We'll see about that after the aforesaid PHD Pukes get this war they're fomenting started.
