It's not illegal to be ineffective

When I was in the Army, deployed to Afghanistan, a bunch of junior soldiers (E-4 and below) came in from the field and wanted to get paid. They needed to wait in line at my little office inside of a hardened building. They were talking amongst themselves in the hall while they waited their turn. There were probably 50 of them. A master sergeant (E-7) came in and started yelling at the soldiers telling them to behave like soldiers and get next to the wall and wait quietly without talking. All the soldiers snapped to attention and went silent in a tight single file line against the wall. This dickhead master sergeant then walked past all of the soldiers who had been waiting in line, walked up to the front counter of my office and submitted some paperwork to have his housing allowance changed back in the states because his dependents had moved. I didn't have the rank to argue with him so I smiled and gave him the most polite customer service you could expect from a military finance office. As soon as he left, I put his paperwork directly into the paper shredder (a crime). My fellow finance soldiers saw me do it and laughed. Fuck him for using his rank to cut in line. A non-commissioned officer should put the junior soldiers first and never use their rank to get special privileges. His paperwork got lost. It happens.
- This is why I wouldn’t have passed army training. I’m not about to let someone take the piss cause they have a higher rank than me, without me challenging that. Right is right at end of the day and this cunt would be told as much before I got fired.
  I want to be clear I am not calling you out for what you did, just adding what I believe I would have done. I lost so many jobs on this hill too.
- Good work.

The CIA wrote a manual on how to do this. It's a bit old and parts of it are outdate for some times of work, but a lot of it is still useful.
Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders
Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products
Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done (some might say normal businesses do this as a matter of course...)
Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible
- Shit, 80% of the people I work with must have read that manual then. That’s a near daily occurrence.
  
  Every web project manager I’ve ever had apparently lived by this manual.
  
  Good for them
- This is also the perfect manual for how to cosplay as energy vampire Colin Robinson.
- I'm pretty sure this is our company policy
- "What about the droid attack on the wookies?"
  
  What about the flamethrower attack on the Geonosians?

This is why the stormtroopers all miss

"Simple Sabotage Field Manual" by United States. Office of Strategic Services is a historical publication written during the early 1940s, amid World War II. This manual acts as a guide for ordinary civilians to conduct simple acts of sabotage against enemy operations without the need for specialized training or equipment. Its main topic revolves around promoting small, accessible forms of resistance that could collectively disrupt the enemy's war effort.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

When I worked in the private sector every mistake was percieved as malicious intent by management.
- That's a sign of toxic management that almost always indicates incompetence.
- just compliment their tie while you're doing it. their egos can't focus on two things at a time. Especially when there is a compliment boost in the room.

Bikeshed the shit out of everything.
Nazi Germany might have killed less Jews if they spent an excessive amount of time in meetings about which tile to use in the gas chambers.
Edit: "As per mine previous telegram, zee Führer does not vant to spend zee time and money to create a swastika mosaic in zee gas chambers vhen vee are already EIGHT MONTHS BEHIND SCHEDULE!! Please review zee color options vee discussed at our last meeting and let me know how you could like to proceed as soon as possible.
Most sincerely,
Colonel Wilhelm Klink"
- Here's the thing: my dad does tiling on a regular basis and he says it's ceramic or it's nothing. Especially when you're working with a caustic gas.
  The problem is the grout. You want a grout that isn't going to fall apart after several uses. The color plays an important role on the binding so we really need to commission a study on how much of a mixture we need.
- Wilhelm Klink was the British top agent Nimrod. He and Schultz were fully aware about Hogan's operation and in fact made sure they would not only not be interfered with, but facilitated.
- I wonder if their recent history might be why Germany is so bureaucratic nowadays.
- Ugh, Adolph asked me to get the whole cabinet together in the warroom at 5. It seems he is not happy with the alpine white. Sounds like we are going to be here all night.

I know a federal government employee who spent over half a day writing their "5 things you did last week" email. It seemed like a very important task coming from high up in the administration, so they wanted to take the time to make sure it was done right.
- The problem is, if they’re in one of the positions the fascists wanted to remove, they likely want that work disrupted; so you’re accomplishing their goal that way.
  
  Fortunately they are in a role that the fascists are trying desperately to keep. So it's kind of funny.

can't wait to be accused of being a collaborator just because i've been peter principled into a position i don't understand
- That’s the neat thing about dictatorships, your behavior is completely irrelevant to how you are treated. If they want to end you, they don’t need a justification.
- peter principled?
  
  The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
  
  The Peter Principle is a concept where people get promoted up to their highest level of incompetence.
  If you're good at your job, you get promoted. If you keep being good, you keep getting promoted. But eventually you land in a position that you're not good at.
  
  The Peter principal is the idea that anyone good at their job will keep getting promoted until they are no longer any good at the job they were promoted to. The idea is that anyone who has been in any position for any significant amount of time must be terrible at it otherwise they would have gotten promoted to a different position already.
  Personally I think it definitely applies to some people but I don't believe it's the universal rule people make it out to be.
- They can't fire you, because it would mean they have to fire hegseth with his "flawless opsec"

....or leak a signal chat

While technically true, you're neglecting that a lot of these agencies employ quotas and performance awards and other metrics to track and promote the more hustler-mindset goons while dumping the less enthusiastic. That's been at the heart of the DOGE campaign - finding and removing anyone who might potentially obstruct the administration's agenda in any agency suspected of hosting opposition bureaucrats.
The purges guarantee the admin can bring in loyalists, more dedicated to the optics of the administration than the role of the office. The performance metrics produce a high rate of false positives in investigations, arrests, and prosecutions. But that's not a bug in this system, its a feature. The "oops I'm bad at my job" strategy of internal disruption isn't a bad one on its face, but it is also not one higher ups aren't fully aware of (and often unjustifiably paranoid about). When the fascist regime begins to fail and starts searching for scapegoats, some of the first they pounce on are the incompetent or unenthusiastic agents on the inside.
That's a big reason why mid-level bureaucrats best serve the system by exiting it entirely. Simply leaving an empty desk does more to clog the gears than doing a mediocre job in the role. And you're not around to take the heat when a Trump AG feels the need to arrest a judge or prosecute a prosecutor for failing to torment local residents fast enough.
- There's been quotas and monitoring at every single one of my jobs, and all they do is alienate the talented staff and leaves the loyal morons & the money-driven behind.
  The last two firms I worked at are still desperately begging me to come back, three years after I resigned, because the ship is rapidly sinking since their AI replacement strategy did not plan out.
  I just resigned my latest position, and I'm gonna take a week or two to get back into making art and music, and then I'm going to take my talent and energy to the organizations fighting back against fascism.
  
  Man if they offered me like 4x my current pay, I'd go back, but if it's been 3 years I would probably be 3 years less efficient than they expected.

Very early in my career I realized how much a business (or any organization) depends on heroes to survive crises. You can make up as many procedures as you want, but when shit starts hitting fans the people who save your organizational ass are the ones who skip their mandatory breaks, come in all weekend during the crunch, and figure out what to do when there's no procedure. The best way to sabotage MAGAcism in a crisis is work as slowly as you can get away with, and follow procedures exactly no matter how poorly they fit the situation.

In the face of fascism we’re all underpaid idiots
- *Overpaid

Strike sabotage slowdown.

A LOT of russian and NK soldiers are doing this right now on the field with Ukraine. NONE of them want to be fighting Ukraine. Many defect. Especially at the beginning. Problem is sometimes they are returned as they are seen as "captives" in Ukraine according to Russia just to be returned to the front of the line. Which sucks hard.

https://youtu.be/H2hXLawl-Zc

context: today is may 1st and we were all supposed to strike today.
that's why context is important, OP. please don't assume everyone knows what you know. the information in our heads is different from the information in your head. it's called theory of mind and most people develop it in early childhood. idiot.
- I didn’t know this. I didn’t see any indication that OP knew this (or to the contrary). Maybe you should practice what you preach.
- I'm so confused what you are responding to
- Every day is a good day to strike against oppressive establishment.
  
  If I somehow live to reach retirement, I'm not going to retire. I'm just going to go on permanent strike.

this isn't even a meme, there are politics communities for this kind of thing.
- you know a meme is just anything that gets shared, duplicated, replicated, or repeated, right? calling things memes is a meme. society is a meme. civilization is a meme. Dee's Nuts being overly salted is a meme
  
  I know that, but since internet meme became I thing it has gained a second definition as a type of joke, which is the meaning intended in the names of meme communities. there are places for politics (including political memes) and this is not one of them.
- Take another look at the comm name.
  
  there are politics communities for political stuff, it meme communities are meant for funny stuff.