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**Cory Doctorow** @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 10 *

Jan 10 *

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

A word to Facebook employees

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/heart-of-zuckness

[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.

Dave T-W @davoloid@mastodon.me.uk

@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.

Corporate RebelsAdvice From The CIA: How Poor Management Can Sabotage Your WorkplaceA new gimmick has entered the management world. It’s an old (1944) CIA manual on how to sabotage an organization’s productivity with poor management.

Jan 10, 2025, 09:53 PM··Tusky

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**Lady Errant** @errant@mastodon.sdf.org · Jan 10

Jan 10

Lady Errant @errant@mastodon.sdf.org

@davoloid @pluralistic See the problem is my org is already pro at all of these things just in the regular course of business.

**Arapalla** @Arapalla@mastodon.social · Jan 11

Jan 11

Arapalla @Arapalla@mastodon.social

@errant @davoloid @pluralistic

Don't forget to turn useless meetings into fun gatherings.
If you have to waste time then talk about football, cricket, fishing, drinking games etc.

**Yza** @Yza@plush.city · Jan 11

Jan 11

Yza @Yza@plush.city

@davoloid @pluralistic im going to be honest much of this sounds like typical management behaviour

**Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe** @phwolfe@scicomm.xyz · Jan 11 *

Jan 11 *

Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe @phwolfe@scicomm.xyz

@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.

**Maximilian Overdraft, Esq. ES** @aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social · Jan 10

Jan 10

Maximilian Overdraft, Esq. ES @aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social

@davoloid @pluralistic

Make 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.