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Direct link to the book (without the backref):
- “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. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”
- “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.” “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
- “‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.”
- “In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.”
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
- “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
- “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
- “Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.”
- “Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job”
- “Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.”
- “Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”
But … but we’re already doing every single one of them 🥺
Isn’t this like the whole SCRUM framework
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
- “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
- “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
Holy shit, my workplace must be trying to sabotage fascism…
I really need to keep that spiderman meme in my back pocket, but this was also my first thought
I work in the development office of a municipality.
I was made for this.
Holy shit it’s AGILE…
I can’t upvote this enough…
Bruh this is my leadership team at work!
Same… Lol
I get how all parts of this are effective to sabotage an economy and hurt the ambitions of those at the top. But, as a regular person working within the system, I choose not to discriminate against or complain about other individual workers just trying to get through their day.
That seems counter productive. The best way to resist the oligarchs can’t be to fuck with the other poor people we’re trying to help.
Most points are more focused on decreasing workplace efficiency by ways other than lowering morale.
Those not working to dismantle fascism are fascists.
Hey now I didn’t suggest not working against the system and the fascists. I pointed out that targeting the morale and well-being of individuals close to you might not be the best use of one’s energy, assuming underlying motivation is to make the world better for yourself and others.
And you can sabotage the work without being hostile towards an individual. That individual is somebody you should be getting on your side.
Youd be much better off trying to unionize your coworkers, that would be far more damaging to the fascist ubercapitalists, and much more beneficial for the workers morale.
Short term pain for long term freedom is needed. If people had your point of view during the American civil war, you’d be the Confederate states of the US.
Every day people are the ones enabling and holding up fascism, not the uniforms, not the leadership, just people like you and your loved ones. Without you fascists have no power. Pressuring those around you, sabotaging their work if it’s helpful to the fascists, socially isolating those that refuse to help are the effective steps to take. If you don’t take them, you’re as bad as any fash with a gun or suit.
So, civ v was right, the only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy, is its inefficiency.
Please tell me that’s not actually what they tell you to do.
Where’s the bombs and general strikes?
The first half
Almost half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. A strike means they can’t feed or house their kids. Corporations have Americans by the balls and they know it.
Nope. Soup kitchens are cheap and easy.
US Americans are just too stupid to turn to their neighbor and work together
Soup kitchen covering people’s health insurance and shit now? You know damn well how much people’s jobs mean to them and their livelihoods.
I agree with you; but it’s very easy to say, challenge level impossible to do.
General strikes include doctors too. They could provide free healthcare, yes.
Which doctor can provide free chemo if I have cancer? Which doctor can provide a free MRI if I have a stroke? Do they keep those things in their home?
You don’t mind children dying, and apparently you don’t mind very sick people dying either.
So how many people do you feel is an acceptable number to die for your cause?
The workers own the hospital. Fuck capital. Just walk in and take it.
So for how much longer would you consider it acceptable for the current system to cause more suffering and death before drastic actions for change are acceptable?
It seems you care more about those who would be hypothetically be harmed than those who are being harmed right now.
I don’t think that those who advocate for mutual aid networks and a general strike are either ignorant or uncaring of the harm that it could cause. I think they believe that the harm caused would be less than the harm already being inflicted by the current system. That said, I think it’s a big ask for people to put themselves and their families at great risk, even if it’s for a good purpose.
Nope. Soup kitchens are cheap and easy.
Yeah, so is eating out of a dumpster. Jesus Christ. Have you ever even talked to a homeless person?
They’re talking about establishing mutual aid networks, not relying on existing ones.
Soup kitchens are not mutual aid networks and now they’re saying eat out of dumpsters.
My guy, food not bombs explicitly is a mutal aid network and they’re specifically discrediting your attempt to discredit them because they have eaten out of dumpsters. But sure, it’s everybody else that’s wildly out of touch in this conversation.
I spent years eating dumpstered food when I lived in the US. You’re proving my point.
Have you ever even volunteered with Food Not Bombs?
Did you feed your kids out of dumpsters? And if so, were any of them autistic kids who would only be willing to eat things they approve of and starve otherwise? I hope not.
But I’m guessing your suggestion is either force-feed them or let them starve.
Also, do you know one of the reasons they take your kids away from you and put them in abusive foster care? Because you’re homeless.
Basically your whole idea is advocating child abuse.
Amazing how many people here think you should put the welfare of others over your own children.
Its clear you’ve never dumpster dived before. Its usually wrapped in food grade containers. Completely sanitary. And good stuff, like super fancy expensive pastries.
And food not bombs works with restaurants and groceries to get the food before they even put it in a dumpster, just before its thrown out.
Seriously, please find your local chapter of Food Not Bombs and volunteer. You would learn a lot. Feeding people is not an issue in the US.
As someone who’s been spreading this since my Fark days I’m glad the kids found it.
Hello fellow Farker.
I feel like shit now that I know all these annoying ass people were actually fighting fascism.
Sorry, Greg, you were right. You are an American hero and we should all be thankful you make everything as difficult as possible.
I was all set to get it when I realized I already downloaded it last week.
Declassified in 2008… Anyone have any evidence when stop lights started going red at each intersection where traffic is present? Wasn’t it about 2008? We need to unite as one country and take back our streets! We need to demand stop lights be timed so you hit greens when going in a straight line! An we need it now!
Milton was the best: playing music that distracts your coworkers and reduces productivity, engaging management and taking up their time about quibbles, muttering incoherently leading to lost time due to miscommunication, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and setting the fucking building on fire.
Be like Milton.
Just a coincidence. President Musk would never allow fascism to take hold in the U.S.
He will raise his hand to nearly the hight of the stop sign to clearly communicate his intent.
one of the first things i did on 11/6/24 was download this, along with other resistance/rebellion/fuckdapolice type shit
Recommendations?
i haven’t read them all but the titles that were recommended to me:
partisans and guerrillas
extreme privacy
mini manual of the urban guerrilla
resistance rebellion and death
perfect crime and how to commit it
on guerrilla warfare
street rebellion
pragmatic guide to subersionall should be available on anna’s archive
edit: i’ll also add propaganda by eddie bernays, since we’re in for nothing but propaganda from here on out
first thing to focus on is don’t draw attention to yourself and delete all social media
Mhmm
Remember when reading this that it was written for a time long past. There are cameras and other electronic tracking everywhere now. Even if you can avoid detection, much of the methodology described here just doesn’t apply to modern machines, telecommunications, and other systems.
But read it all anyway. (It’s not that long.) The mindset you will need to employ is plainly communicated and remains valid today. Be observant, be creative, be careful, and [email protected].
It only worked back then because after Germans followed the manual to weaken the Nazis, other countries came in and destroyed them.
If the equivalent happens in the USA we’re all fucked.
The modern approach for grinding everything to a halt is to push for migration to M365 in your workplace.
Lift and shift to Azure!
Microsoft Teams is the only communication platform allowed
Bankrupt them through AWS.
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You jest, but you’re not wrong.
Pushing to “improve processes and efficiency” for as many people as possible, where that requires changes to what people do - and especially changes to the applications they use - means a whole lot of retraining and mistakes. Office workers are hardly different than factory line workers. They do the same thing over and over every day, and if anything changes, they’re flummoxed.
This also serves to reveal more clearly which workers are more and less adaptable, so that you can focus any of your efforts. Either get more in the way of the more productive people, or take advantage of less productive people to effect a larger error.
Edit: And if your “improved processes” are complicated enough, this gives other people who want to resist more opportunities to employ malicious compliance.
Not for a moment did I believe the comment was made in jest
For a more modern take, there are other repositories in a similar vein: https://specificsuggestions.com/share/EN/9836.html
Some are very simple and excusable for the average office worker
Use manual page numbers, so they have to be readjusted when page order changes
Crimp (damage by bending) the Ethernet cables
Send email content as images rather than as text
Crimp (damage by bending) the Ethernet cables.
I’m siding with the fascists on this one.
Report imaginary spies
Sounds like a good way to get your buddy Bob taken out and shot.
When fascists starts suspecting everyone as spies, good people die.
I thought the idea was to invent reports about fictional people not to create fake reports about real people.
Just report Elon Musk 50 times.
That’s why you report other fascists as being spies, or imaginary people like it says.
“Report imaginary spies” = bad.
“Let other people’s children be homeless and starve for your cause” = good.
You have some fucked up priorities.
The priority is the end goal of undermining the regime
At the cost of children? Really? You really think that? Because that really doesn’t make you any better than them.
I started reading but i’m pretty sure this book is illegal in my country
Was that law passed by Oswald Mosley or something?
2000 so that would have been under Tony Blair. We don’t have constitutionally protected free speech like the US does
I know, I was making a joke.
Well I found this for sale in my country: https://www.bokklubben.no/andre-verdenskrig/manual-of-guerilla-tactics-anon/produkt.do?produktId=108933357
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TIL half the people at my workplace have been reading this book for the last 2 decades.
I had that manual for a while. Time to really pay attention…
People seriously need to chill the fuck out with the Nazi comparisons.
Trump won popular vote, that’s literally a democracy.
I wish the Republicans had more class in dealing with political opponents, or in getting their point across about some issues, but they don’t. Their lack of finesse just makes people overreact. These overreactions are reminding me of the J6ers, though.
He won due to the most concentrated voter suppression campaign in decades. This is probably not including other shit.
He got the same amount of votes as last time he lost the popular vote. Trump is far from the desired elected official. The reason he won is because the US isnt a democracy.
He’s already trying to purge the government of anyone who will disobey his illegal orders. And one week in, anyway has plans to ship 10s of thousands of people to a military prison which only exists as a fake way to get around violating US laws on imprisonment… So, a fucking concentration camp.
Wake the fuck up
These overreactions are reminding me of the J6ers, though.
Ah, yes. Truly a classic. “The people angry about the blanket pardoning of all the violent insurrectionists are just as bad as the violent insurrectionists!”
Lol.
Good point, I should clarify that’s not what I was saying. I was saying that it reminds me of the same online reactions prior to it happening.
