Declassified CIA documents detail how to sabotage employers, annoy bosses
Seems like items 1-4 are strongly in effect at most places I've been to, unintentionally of course. The statements on committee-forming and pedantic wording ring particularly true, and I fear that these things are what people are learning from each other. You don't need a committee or meeting for most decisions, and the wording seldom matters so long as the spirit is there for internal documents."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. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can. Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions. Be unreasonable and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on. Don't order new working' materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown. To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms. Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope."Some points from original PDF:
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.
When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions.
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.
The original of the document seems to be open since 2012: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
I'm wondering how much it would take to invert every item, and turn the guide document into management best practices.
So... Either this is an inside joke or basically every company in America (and very likely everywhere) is a CIA front.
My employer has been heavily infiltrated!
Made a readable version of original document part related to office work: https://gist.github.com/sigsergv/4ef7760bce859c67e298
This would explain a few of the places I've worked at :(
higher quality version
http://www.simplesabotage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ori...
This is less of a how to sabotage and more like a list of productivity killing things they acknowledged were killing productivity and a suggestion that they can be applied in the context of sabotage.
While unsurprising, it's mildly amusing.
Dogbert? Is that you?
So the CIA invented Change MAnagement back in 1944 then?
cia in 1944 how is that possible ? the agency was founded in 1947...
"Pay every employee, whether good or bad, 70 thousand a year."