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?
"Quiet quitting" is the best thing employees at these fucked up companies can do. Just don't do anything. Do the bare minimum to not get fired, make them pay you every month for showing up and being essentially dead weight.
@RandamuMaki Oh, we can do better than "just dead weight". Be the "indispensable linchpin" of a system or two, valiantly fighting against any and every change to it via malicious compliance and concern trolling.
Don't approve those PRs... unless, of course, you notice a hard-to-detect bug, then let it through with great regret and concern. When it ultimately blows up, tell everyone you told them so, and later use this event as evidence when you push back against change.
* 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.
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)
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
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.
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.
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![[Turn to CAM 2, flip chair around backward] Meta employees, let me rap at you a minute. Sure, “You Can Always Quit,” as we like to say around here. But at this crucial juncture, you can both protect your own livelihood and do so much more good for the world by not quitting. That’s right! Don’t quit, just stop working. Show up every day, don’t complain, don’t draw attention to yourself. But don’t accomplish anything. If you are working on a project, commit in your heart to never finishing it. This will be your last project at Meta, and you will be “working on it” until they force you out. If others rely on you to get their work done, make sure they can’t. If your role involves reviewing pull requests, you and I both know you can find a reason to reject every one. In fact, wouldn’t it be fun to see how many other employees you can drive out first? If you work in an open office space, make sure you chew loudly at all times. Microwave fish in the break room every single day. Be creative! You’ll have plenty of time to think of ideas, with all the work you’re not getting done.](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/20213670 "[Turn to CAM 2, flip chair around backward] Meta employees, let me rap at you a minute. Sure, “You Can Always Quit,” as we like to say around here. But at this crucial juncture, you can both protect your own livelihood and do so much more good for the world by not quitting. That’s right! Don’t quit, just stop working. Show up every day, don’t complain, don’t draw attention to yourself. But don’t accomplish anything. If you are working on a project, commit in your heart to never finishing it. This will be your last project at Meta, and you will be “working on it” until they force you out. If others rely on you to get their work done, make sure they can’t. If your role involves reviewing pull requests, you and I both know you can find a reason to reject every one. In fact, wouldn’t it be fun to see how many other employees you can drive out first? If you work in an open office space, make sure you chew loudly at all times. Microwave fish in the break room every single day. Be creative! You’ll have plenty of time to think of ideas, with all the work you’re not getting done.")
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in reply to Maki • • •@RandamuMaki Oh, we can do better than "just dead weight". Be the "indispensable linchpin" of a system or two, valiantly fighting against any and every change to it via malicious compliance and concern trolling.
Don't approve those PRs... unless, of course, you notice a hard-to-detect bug, then let it through with great regret and concern. When it ultimately blows up, tell everyone you told them so, and later use this event as evidence when you push back against change.
Grumble
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •God. Damn. Right.
Sabotabby says hello.
MWT
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •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).
Dave T-W
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •CIA 1944 approves:
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* 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.
Advice From The CIA: How Poor Management Can Sabotage Your Workplace
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •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
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Let's burn to the ground any social media run by nazilionnaires.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •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.
BrianKrebs
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Won'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.
Phil Feldman, PhD
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •And you can always peruse the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual for ideas. Start on Page 11 "General Interference with Organizations and Production"
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From another era: Getting too many faces? Fax back a black piece of paper, many many times.
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