Are you in a dead-end job, with lackluster management who does everything to impede you and generally make you suffer?
Well, here's a MEGALIST of things you can do to grind their effectiveness to a utter halt! They make you suffer? Return the favor!
Some of these may not apply to your specific job. Use what works 😀
(1) Work slowly. Think out wa.ys to increase the number of movements necessary on your job: use a light hammer instead of a heavy one, try to make' a small wrench do when a big one is necessary, use little force where considerable force is needed, and so on.
(2) Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can: when changing the material on which you are working, as you would on a lathe' or punch, take needless time to do it. If you are cutting, shaping or doing other measured work, measure dimensions -twice as often as you need to. When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary. Forget tools so that you will have to go back after them.
(3) Even it you understand the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.
(4) 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. '
(5) Do your. work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right. '
(6) Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.
(7) Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so, that they will have to be done over; makemlstakes or omit requested information in forms.
(8) If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the mangement. See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.
(9) Misroute materials.
(10) Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.
(11) Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.
(12) Act stupid.
(13) Be as irritable and, quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.
(14) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(15) 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,
(16) When possible, refer all matters to 'committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible – never less than five.
(17) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(18) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(19) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision,
(20) Advocate “caution.” Be ureasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
(21) Be worried about the propriety of any decision – raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated is within the jurisdiction of the group whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.