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TheVision wrote:
MaliA wrote:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11?r=US&IR=T

How to sabotage a business.


That looks like an interesting read but I can't go any further as I'm using Adblock. Pah.


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Organizations and Conferences

Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.

When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committee as large as possible - never less than five.

Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

Managers

In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers.

Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.

To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.

Employees

Work slowly.

Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can.

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.

Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.
"Homie with another chromie" :D
MaliA wrote:
TheVision wrote:
MaliA wrote:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11?r=US&IR=T

How to sabotage a business.


That looks like an interesting read but I can't go any further as I'm using Adblock. Pah.


Important bits

Quote:
Organizations and Conferences

Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.

When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committee as large as possible - never less than five.

Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

Managers

In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers.

Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.

To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.

Employees

Work slowly.

Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can.

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.

Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.


Sounds like my place of work...
My place of work is not like that.

Apart from the bits I control.
https://imgur.com/gallery/zmAdNjh

Reminds me of Dimrill

I know it's Imgur. Shut up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments ... ut_why_in/

r/games is closed for the day to bring attention to how horrible people are
zaphod79 wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/b7ubwm/rgames_is_closed_for_april_fools_find_out_why_in/

r/games is closed for the day to bring attention to how horrible people are


The meta thread about that tomorrow is going to be the most miserable thing you've ever read.
/r/HobbyDrama is fun site full of instantly-relatable tales about the pointless fights and feuds that occur in any organisation. Here's a recent fun one:

Antique Tractor Drama
Kern wrote:
/r/HobbyDrama is fun site full of instantly-relatable tales about the pointless fights and feuds that occur in any organisation. Here's a recent fun one:

Antique Tractor Drama

People can be real dicks about this kind of thing. They get all tribal about it.

I was on the parent teachers committee at my kids junior school for a couple of years and there was even infighting in that tiny group. And the talk in the playground, amongst some parents, was that the the committee was a clique, but none of these people ever came forward when we asked for new members.
Yes, been in enough clubs and on enough committees to have been both witness and participant in such things. I try my best to stay out of such fights now, but am still bearing grudges.

So, topic icons?
Nothing beats owners associations. They win the petty infighting Olympics hands-down.
Tombstoning is a subreddit showcasing unfortunate juxtapositions of stories/pictures on a single newspaper page and there's some brilliant stuff there. Note that a dark sense of humour is probably required for much of it.

https://i.redd.it/9b89qonj4t031.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/lHda2Dv.jpg
https://i.redd.it/e52ylvp9cq331.jpg
https://old.reddit.com/r/tombstoning/co ... _i_follow/
https://old.reddit.com/r/tombstoning/co ... _blessing/
https://old.reddit.com/r/tombstoning/co ... t_helpful/
Bamba wrote:
Tombstoning is a subreddit showcasing unfortunate juxtapositions of stories/pictures on a single newspaper page and there's some brilliant stuff there. Note that a dark sense of humour is probably required for much of it.

https://i.redd.it/9b89qonj4t031.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/lHda2Dv.jpg
https://i.redd.it/e52ylvp9cq331.jpg
https://old.reddit.com/r/tombstoning/co ... _i_follow/
https://old.reddit.com/r/tombstoning/co ... _blessing/
https://old.reddit.com/r/tombstoning/co ... t_helpful/

:D There are some belters in there.

I wonder if there's a section for badly written items. I've got a photo of an article from the Metro years ago about a 'Man stabbed to death 27 times."
That reminds me of this I saw a few years ago.
I don't think any of them will ever top this classic:
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
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That is amazing.

I always liked this one:
Brilliant. They can't be accidental, surely?
Shitrag is that paper
MaliA wrote:
Shitrag is that paper

The Wirral Gazette is much better. It’s where I get all my Merseyside news
On r/AskHistorians today, there's a rundown of the actual Sherrifs of Nottingham[-shire] during the era of Robin Hood. A short, fun read, marred only by a lack of references.

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These two men were so awful that clause 50 of Magna Carta calls for their removal by name
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