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Cory DoctorowA word to Facebook employees
Albatross@pluralistic This dovetails closely with my thoughts on 21st-century work actions. Striking - walking off the job whether union or wildcat - is risky and expensive for the worker. Stressing the supply chain - doing work slowly, ineptly, sabotaging things - safe-ER, LESS risky, and with the system so fine-tuned for profit, more impactful than one might expect. Now, coordinate all of that over the Internet and you can expect some real fireworks... Who wants to write a work-slowdown app?
Dieu@Albatross @pluralistic Sometimes I wish I didn't work for a fucking library.
@hllizi @pluralistic Working for a library LIKE A BOSS. Libraries are the best.
@Albatross @pluralistic yeah, so no desire to do sabotage.
Royce Williams@Albatross
Other than Teams? 😉
Other than Teams? 😉
@pluralistic M$365 is proof that God loves us and doesn't want us to get too much done.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@Albatross @pluralistic When I was a university employee, I encouraged people not to strike (which lets the university not pay you) but to work to contract instead. Especially postdocs (who are very poorly paid anyway). Their contract usually includes a clause that explicitly says no teaching obligations, so don’t do any teaching (including supervising labs, small group teaching, and so on). For lecturers, there are research and teaching obligations but things like sitting on committees are extra work. Don’t resign from the committees, just don’t show up and don’t let them achieve quorum. Most universities would collapse within six months if union members did only the things that their contracts require.
Paul CantrellPaul Cantrell (@[email protected])
What does that mean in practice? Well, here’s a relatively gentle practical example: Suppose you’re on a software team that gets a contract doing work that will benefit the fascists. Defiance means you refuse the project, maybe quit your job. Sabotage means you finally embrace that management mandate to use more AI. Really embrace it. Be incredibly productive. Generate lots of code. LOTS of code. Utterly obscene quantities of code. 2/
Chris Johnson
Taqwa System 
@pluralistic not really a good advice
MWT@pluralistic Making life as unpleasant as possible for as long as possible for everyone around you does not get back at the company.
May I never find myself in a situation where I'd find joy in doing any of the bottom half of the suggestions (on purpose).
Justin Derrickdoes not get back at the company
It most certainly does. The same way draining oil from an engine leads it to a melt down, or putting a little sand in the gears grinds machines down until they can’t do their job anymore.
@JustinDerrick @pluralistic Sure, if you want to consider your coworkers to be equivalent to things. You do you.
Dave T-W@pluralistic CIA 1944 approves:
https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/cia-field-manual
* Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders.
* In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.
* Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products.
* Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
* Multiply the procedure and clearances involved in issuing instructions.
Lady Errant@davoloid @pluralistic See the problem is my org is already pro at all of these things just in the regular course of business.
herbert@davoloid @pluralistic sounds like the management of EU-Funded research infrastructure projects
The FrogOh my god, was my previous employer engaging in sabotage operations?
Maxilo OveritMake sure every project has frequent meetings inviting every manager who might be interested as a "must attend" except nobody with any technical knowledge or judgment.
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe@davoloid @pluralistic I was just about to post this CIA sabotage piece!
The best last line of a movie ever ,from Mother Abbess in the Sound of Music. "What is this sin, my children?"
Also, slightly burning popcorn in the microwave every afternoon.
Yza@davoloid @pluralistic im going to be honest much of this sounds like typical management behaviour
cerement(I’ve heard microwaving broccoli generates similar results)
Shane Celis@pluralistic Quiet quitting for real this time.
Chris Johnsen@pluralistic Please don’t be the person that rejects every pull request. Be the person that approves them all.
Bec@hinayana @pluralistic
Figure out how to route your code, which has small, pernicious, process-breaking errors in it, to the person that auto-approves every push 😂
Figure out how to route your code, which has small, pernicious, process-breaking errors in it, to the person that auto-approves every push 😂
unlofl [Promoted Toot]@hinayana @pluralistic automated key macro for "LGTM :shipit:" and click approve!
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷@pluralistic Unionize along the way.
Nils Müller@larsmb who needs ions anyway? ;)
Elias Probst@Weltenkreuzer I have to admit, it took me a minute... 😄
mark@pluralistic this will be my next 6 months
Robots can be gay deal with it@pluralistic create group texts of your team, hold onto information and send them out between midnight and 4 AM. (You can use scheduled send to allow yourself to sleep)
bignoseThis is also cumulative ammunition to push for effective #RightToDisconnect law @MontgomeryGator
Oh, it's too disruptive to monitor job communications outside our contracted working hours? Yeah I guess you're right, boss. Hey look here's a law that would help, I guess you'd support this then boss
Fuzz-RaGotta love a bit of malicious compliance.
Anybody worried about giving in to their urge to malice should take comfort in specifically exercising it on those who already chose wholesale malice.
samiamsamLOL love it!
ferricoxide@pluralistic Stop showering...
vet-ingentingNever quit. You can't collect unemployment compensation if you quit.
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@pluralistic
Order the wrong items. Monitors/keyboards you know break. Cables you won't use. Printers with known issues, subscription services, etc.. Everything you buy/recommend should have long term financial obligations & a poor online reputation.
Stress safety & ergonomics. Ergonomic chairs, keyboards, mice. Then order different replacements as "not right". Make sure to blame lack of production on these issues. Demand expensive headsets. Break them. Demand replacements.
#SimpleSabotage
Order the wrong items. Monitors/keyboards you know break. Cables you won't use. Printers with known issues, subscription services, etc.. Everything you buy/recommend should have long term financial obligations & a poor online reputation.
Stress safety & ergonomics. Ergonomic chairs, keyboards, mice. Then order different replacements as "not right". Make sure to blame lack of production on these issues. Demand expensive headsets. Break them. Demand replacements.
#SimpleSabotage
@pluralistic
Swap keyboard/mouse dongles. As long as there aren't surveillance cameras.
Swap keyboard/mouse dongles. As long as there aren't surveillance cameras.
EndlessMason@pluralistic
How is the time to expense an IBM model M, model F, or cherry mx green or mx blue keyboard... I mean sure they're a bit louder and they cost more, but the disruption to your colleagues is worth it because "studies show it help you be more productive" and "it won't even be noticeable on a zoom call at all" and "even after objecting to the idea nobody was that bothered by my open back headphones"
How is the time to expense an IBM model M, model F, or cherry mx green or mx blue keyboard... I mean sure they're a bit louder and they cost more, but the disruption to your colleagues is worth it because "studies show it help you be more productive" and "it won't even be noticeable on a zoom call at all" and "even after objecting to the idea nobody was that bothered by my open back headphones"
Viss
Raph J 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸 #HelloQuitteX@pluralistic Or even better : just switch off tour antivirus, get your laptop vulontary infected by any possible virus and ransomware and spread them to the private network at Meta.
Let's burn to the ground any social media run by nazilionnaires.
Let's burn to the ground any social media run by nazilionnaires.
LR@pluralistic isn't that what errybody is already doing
Danil@pluralistic I remember I saw large youtube channel - where youtuber "worked at microsoft/amazon/apple/etc" for last 10 years as programmer - and he did not write a single line of code.
He just cycle "when they found out he doing nothing" in few months/half of year - go to other company - they hire him because "he worked at other tech-giant" - and cycle worked because corporations cycle HR-people who hire - so there always someone new every few months who do not know anything.
Bureaucracy.
He just cycle "when they found out he doing nothing" in few months/half of year - go to other company - they hire him because "he worked at other tech-giant" - and cycle worked because corporations cycle HR-people who hire - so there always someone new every few months who do not know anything.
Bureaucracy.
Phil Feldman, PhD@pluralistic And you can always peruse the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual for ideas. Start on Page 11 "General Interference with Organizations and Production"
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
@pluralistic Which, come to think of it, we should all consider downloading before it vanishes
yuhasz01@philfeld @pluralistic I like this one as well from US Army 1945. #64, Fascism...how to identify and analyze.
HTML and PDF copies available on line. https://archive.org/details/ArmyTalkOrientationFactSheet64-Fascism
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...
@yuhasz01 @pluralistic This is quite good! Had not seen it before
BrianKrebsWon't you get fired?
I don't know. But I really don't like it, and I'm not going to go.
So you're going to quit?
Nuh-uh. I'm just gonna stop going.
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud@briankrebs @pluralistic It was decades ago, but a friend worked at a large corporation and decided to just not work. He went in everyday, did nothing, and it took 6 months to get fired.
Fabio Tavano@briankrebs @pluralistic in Italy (maybe not just here) this it’s called white strike “sciopero bianco”
Bredroll@pluralistic this reminds me of a CIA guide to do low level sabotage by bureaucratic stiflement. "Use the rules to stall everything"
@pluralistic Makes me think of this masterpiece:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/culture-jam-kalle-lasn
From another era: Getting too many faces? Fax back a black piece of paper, many many times.
Sir l33tname@pluralistic there is a fun cia handbook for that https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
gunstick@pluralistic if your job is to write code, get it written by chatGPT. Do not correct all the errors. Don't run the code to see if it works. Just commit it as is.
Kaosc@pluralistic Reminds me of the something from the Simple Sabotage manual: https://ia601309.us.archive.org/14/items/Simplesabotage/Simplesabotage.pdf