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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 154 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember when reading this that it was written for a time long past. There are cameras and other electronic tracking everywhere now. Even if you can avoid detection, much of the methodology described here just doesn't apply to modern machines, telecommunications, and other systems.

But read it all anyway. (It's not that long.) The mindset you will need to employ is plainly communicated and remains valid today. Be observant, be creative, be careful, and !resist@fedia.io.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 83 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The modern approach for grinding everything to a halt is to push for migration to M365 in your workplace.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You jest, but you're not wrong.

Pushing to "improve processes and efficiency" for as many people as possible, where that requires changes to what people do - and especially changes to the applications they use - means a whole lot of retraining and mistakes. Office workers are hardly different than factory line workers. They do the same thing over and over every day, and if anything changes, they're flummoxed.

This also serves to reveal more clearly which workers are more and less adaptable, so that you can focus any of your efforts. Either get more in the way of the more productive people, or take advantage of less productive people to effect a larger error.

Edit: And if your "improved processes" are complicated enough, this gives other people who want to resist more opportunities to employ malicious compliance.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Not for a moment did I believe the comment was made in jest

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago

Bankrupt them through AWS.

Microsoft Teams is the only communication platform allowed

Oopsie, accidentally crowdstriked 😉

(Yes the crowd is gonna go on strike too)

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Lift and shift to Azure!

[–] SilentRampage34@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For a more modern take, there are other repositories in a similar vein: https://specificsuggestions.com/share/EN/9836.html

Some are very simple and excusable for the average office worker

Use manual page numbers, so they have to be readjusted when page order changes

Crimp (damage by bending) the Ethernet cables

Send email content as images rather than as text

[–] superkret@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

Crimp (damage by bending) the Ethernet cables.

I'm siding with the fascists on this one.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It only worked back then because after Germans followed the manual to weaken the Nazis, other countries came in and destroyed them.

If the equivalent happens in the USA we're all fucked.