Eric Blair
David August βπAh, gotta love malicious compliance.
JW prince of CPH@davidaugust I prefer "Adverserial Obedience" π
lp0 on fire 
Adversarial obedience if you do it once.
Adverserial obedience if you do it repeatedly.
llywrch@jwcph @davidaugust Also known as βwork to ruleβ. A venerable labor tactic.
Dr. Flowers@davidaugust @Hey_Beth I do admire well-done passive aggression.
Kathryn Ashby@AlliFlowers @davidaugust @Hey_Beth Is he Canadian because that passive aggressive thing is our national standard! Brilliant.
Cate@davidaugust @Hey_Beth @AlliFlowers @Kat Have you been to Minnesota? Passive Aggressive was invented here!! π€£
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Obsolete@davidaugust some of my most satisfying moments in my career involved applying the rules to the rulers
Lori M Olson@davidaugust I dunno, but it looks to me like β¦ consequences. #FAFO
JaySinWA@davidaugust Also known as "work to rule" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
@davidaugust Nothing malicious about working as instructed! Calling folks at home outside of work hours, OTOH...
Red Faster@davidaugust leave a voicemail or try again during business hours
Dan@davidaugust this is perfect, honestly
Moss@davidaugust that's a one man work to rule strike
Noel Kellyhehe Being on-call used to mean you got extra money whether you got called in or not ($x/week).
If you got called in, they paid you four hours at overtime rates (time and a half) even for a 5 minute fix.
Rob Abram@gnoll110 @davidaugust And that, kids, is how my dad paid for our summer holidays back in the 70s and 80s - by being on-call as a telephone engineer over the Christmas period. I think it was DOUBLE time and a half and minimum 2-hour jobs, but the same principle appliesβ¦
HLGEM@gnoll110 @davidaugust We need to redo all overtime rules removing ALL the exceptions. YOU get paid for every hour worked. Period.
throAU@HLGEM @gnoll110 @davidaugust if you are on call and not working you still should be paid some base rate for availability as it restricts your activities during on call time.
@gnoll110 @davidaugust thatβs how it should be. If I have to be on call it means I canβt do a variety of things including say, being out of mobile service, having a beer, etc. those are things I like to do in MY time. If you deny me those things you should be paying for it.
Kevin Collas-ArundellThough time off in lieu is often more expensive to the company than the extra cash
@gnoll110 @davidaugust
And introduces backpressure directly onto the product team (devs on call right!!!) to fix their shit
And introduces backpressure directly onto the product team (devs on call right!!!) to fix their shit
charles@kca @davidaugust @gnoll110 "you sure you want to prioritize this new feature over that mountain of tech debt?"
@charles plus the big side effect of βsorry boss half the team is off this week cause on call sucks. We could maybe make it not suckβ
@pineywoozle βs #3WordNote@davidaugust lol Iβve been practicing this since HS. Got dinged for wearing a βLeviβ skirt β¦went home and put on an almost perfect match of jeans & top to the councilmanβs daughter who was working in the principles office when I was reprimanded. Came back and stood next to her all twinsy like and asked if this was an OK choice. LoL π
Phil Thane β
@Pineywoozle @davidaugust My first teaching job (UK, 1974) school uniform for girls included a skirt, no trousers. Then we got an influx of Muslim girls and their parents objected. So they were allowed trousers and a load of white parents complained about discrimination so the school was over-ruled by the education authority. Then a few female teachers wore trousers and were reprimanded and sent home to change. They wrote to the authority. Eventually the headmaster resigned. Over trousers!
@pthane Ha! Petty tyrants be petty.
Tyler π@davidaugust βI donβt make the rules.β π€·
T.WllmsAnd another episode of FAFO... corporate compliance.
Mark R. Stoneman@davidaugust @emilyherring Some would call that subaltern resistance.
milkman@davidaugust
That's a sad commentary on the backwardness and stupidity of many IT Depts. I saw it also before I retired.
Good for you, towing the line.
Brian Orce 
@davidaugust βQuiet quittingβ LOL
@davidaugust Yes, but unfortunately I'm betting he'll be first in line to be fired when they don't need him any more. Based on experience.
Roseanna Cunningham π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ@davidaugust @RabBrucesSpider1 - work to rule surely??
RuralTechie@davidaugust Ah - the Law of Unintended Consequences!! Gotta love it too!
8tpercent@davidaugust "Hi, you've reached the mobile of xyz... My business hours are 9am to 5.30pm. If it's urgent... Please press 1."
Pressing 1 takes the caller back to the start of the message..
Any other key: "West of House. You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. In the mailbox is a message that says..."
now loop back voicemail π
nick@8tpercent @davidaugust "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. Your call is important to us."
m0xEE@davidaugust I knew a guy who used to leave the company-provided phone in the office when he was leaving. If the employer wants you to be reachable in the after hours because of emergency, but doesn't want to make an exception and wants you in the office at 8 or 9 AM when there's no emergency, it is something to consider. They hire you to do your job and do it well, but they don't own you π€·
LooksNormalActsWeird@m0xee @davidaugust i leave my work phone in the work drawer when im leaving work for the evening...
Yaoi Box Balloon@davidaugust If you don't make boundaries people will push you as far as they can.
Jessamyn@davidaugust Gotta love a good Work to Rule.
VolineOne time-tested "unconventional strike" tactic is called "work to rule". It's where you do everything exactly by management's specifications. Workers stop doing all the work-arounds they use to actually get things done. This reliably causes productivity to go to hell.
Paul Cantrell@Voline @davidaugust
Minneapolis Public Schools teachers are currently doing this on Wednesdays, mostly as a symbolic gesture.
They canβt do it 7 days a week because the whole district would fall apart.
TransitBiker@davidaugust delicious*
Alan (he/him)@davidaugust does anyone know if FuckYouIQuit is here yet?
RDS (shawphd on Twitter)
MikeZilla Minus One@davidaugust it is absolutely the best
Darwin Woodka@davidaugust Work to Rule. Either you are or you aren't after all!
ANDO 
@davidaugust i have a deep admiration for this human being
Ambiorickx@davidaugust if you believe anything from r/antiwork, I have some prime oceanfront property in Colorado to sell.
Laurens π
theredelm@davidaugust @Laz1985 ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½
no brain no pain@davidaugust Ha! Itβs f*** you I will do what you told me π€£
Lesley Carhart 
@davidaugust heroes walk among us
Meredith@davidaugust this is unacceptable and your life, happiness, prosperity and obvious skill level and proficiency suggest the company ruling is bullshit. In my view.
AlisonW βΏπ³οΈβπβΎοΈ@davidaugust
We call it "working to rule" (ie contract). It's wonderful. π
We call it "working to rule" (ie contract). It's wonderful. π
Kevin Karhan 
@davidaugust yeah.
I explicitly demand to be allowed to work from home wherever technically possible.
Someone wanting a meeting is not a technical necessity.
Some shit needing manual intervention and it's not in a datacenter where one can do the hands-on is...
McTwist has moved@davidaugust I told my old employer that I only work when my contract says so, and all other time I am not there. So if they for some reason claim crunch time, I end my day normal time, as it's not my problem for them not utilizing my paid time properly.
They did not fire me, I quit 5 years later for a better offer.