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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
United States. Office of Strategic Services
Sabotage
(3) Do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders. Even though
parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don’t deliver it until it is
completely ready.
(4) 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.
(5) Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don’t
get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean
inferior work.
(6) In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs
first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers
of poor machines.
(7) Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send
back for refinishing those which have the least flaw. Approve other
defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.
(8) Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent
to the wrong place in the plant.
(9) When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading
instructions.
(10) To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to
inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate
against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.
(11) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
(12) Multiply paper work in plausible ways.
Start duplicate files.
(13) 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.
(14) Apply all regulations to the last letter.
(c) Office Workers
(1) Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying
orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.
(2) Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.
(3) Misfile essential documents.
(4) In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying
job will have to be done.
(5) Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another
telephone.
(6) Hold up mail until the next collection.
(7) Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.
(d) Employees
(1) _Work slowly_. Think out ways 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 if you understand the language, pretend not to understand
instructions in a foreign tongue.
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