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简单破坏现场手册（1944）
Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]
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这是 CIA 公布的 1944 年《简单破坏实地手册》PDF：二战期间美国战略情报局(OSS)编写的指南，教敌占区的普通民众如何用不起眼的方式拖垮轴心国的生产与组织——磨钝工具、乱扔杂物，以及在会议、委员会、人事流程中制造拖延。其中关于组织管理的章节在今天读来尤其耐人寻味。
为什么经久不衰：它历经多次上首页仍被反复讨论，因为书中'合法拖延'的破坏手法与当代大公司的官僚低效惊人相似，既是历史文献也是一面照见职场文化的镜子。
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作者认为手册本质上是把职场常见怠工行为包装成爱国义务的讽刺清单
我猜这其实是一本讽刺指南，写的是员工的懒惰如何损害战争努力，而不是真正的实地手册吧？肯定是这样的。让我从'也许这真是种策略'转变为'这不过是对无名下属的怨气清单'的，是机械车间那部分破坏建议。没人会看员工手册里'磨快工具、妥善存放、别太用力压钻头、定期清理滤油器'这些话，但一旦说成'敌人从不磨工具、故意把工具放坏、钻头总是压得太狠，每天让雇主损失好几美分'，照爷爷说的做就成了你的爱国义务。全文都是这个调子。
jrockway查看英文原文
I assume that this is actually a cynical guide to how your laziness as an employee is harming the war effort and not an actual field manual, right? It has to be. The section where my mind was changed from "maybe this is actually a strategy" to "this is just a passive-aggressive list of grievances against anonymous subordinates" was all the machine shop sabotage suggestions. Nobody read the employee handbook when it said "sharpen your tools, store them properly, don't press too hard on your drill, and clean out the oil filters regularly", but when you say "the enemy never sharpens their tools, they store them so they'll break, and they're always pressing way too hard on the drill bits costing their employer PENNIES A DAY in replacement parts", suddenly it's your patriotic duty to do what Grandpa demands. Everything reads like this. "Some idiot let the pilot light go out, lit a candle in the room, and then went home. Our building blew up and my precious stash of rare cigars was lost forever!" "You dumbasses flushed a sponge down the toilet AGAIN!? Are you kidding me!? WHY!?!?"
组织章节描述的低效在政治压倒执行的公司里会自然发生，无需刻意破坏
第 11 节的大部分内容，正是那些政治斗争压倒执行力的公司里日常发生的事。只有在那种环境里你才做得成这些事，而且根本不需要刻意去做——它自然就发生了。
not_buying_it查看英文原文
Most of section 11 is what happens at companies where politics becomes more important than execution, you can only get away with this shit in such an environment and you don't need to actually do it there, it just happens naturally.
手册中的会议与流程破坏建议与日常职场官僚作风如出一辙
我最喜欢组织和会议那部分，感觉我过去共事过很多'特工'：(1) 坚持一切通过'渠道'办理，绝不允许走捷径加快决策；(5) 尽可能把所有事项提交委员会'进一步研究和考虑'，并尽量让委员会越大越好——不少于五人。看来呆伯特(Dilbert)说不定真在为中情局工作。
1337biz查看英文原文
I love the part on organizations & conferences. Seems like I have worked with many agents in the past: (1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions (5) 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. I guess Dilbert might be working with the CIA after all.
糟糕的激励机制会无意间催生类似破坏的低效行为
令人沮丧的是，有些人做着这类事还自认为是好员工/好经理。制度会产生意想不到的怪异激励，很快导致破坏性的工作方式。举个例子：工厂要求打卡，你想让大家 8 点准时到，就规定 8:04 后打卡扣 15 分钟工资。结果 8:04 到的人干脆 8:15 才开始干活（反正那时才计薪），而准时到的人反而先闲晃一阵——8 点前打卡、8 点过后才上工位。就因为有人发明了一个糟糕的惩罚机制，而不是好好管理让大家干活，一群人就在那儿晃悠、还干扰别人。我在工厂见过无数这种无意或故意的'破坏'。
DanBC查看英文原文
Depressing that some people do this stuff and think they're good workers / managers. Stuff has unintended weird incentives, and that can quickly lead to destructive working practices. One quick example: Factory workers have to clock in. You want people to be on time (8.00 am), so you say that if they clock in after 08:04 they lose 15 minutes wage. But what (obviously happens) is the people who arrive at 08:04 don't start work until 08:15 (which is, after all, when they're getting paid from). But the people coming in on time mill around a bit before they start work - they clock in at 07:55 and get to the bench at 08:01; or the clock in at 08:00 and get to the bench at 08:03. So there's a bunch of people milling around, not starting work and distracting other workers and etc etc, just because someone invented a broken disincentive late arrivals instead of just being a better manager and telling people to get to work. I have countless examples of inadvertent and deliberate sabotage in factory work. (One more quick example. A guy turns up for interview. He has a friend with him. The friend waits in reception, falls asleep; he's really scruffy. The interviewee smells of alcohol. His hobby on his CV is "Enjoying Homebrew". Employing that one semi-functional alcoholic destroyed hundreds of person-hours of work, because people were less restrained when they went to the pub at lunch time. (Also, some other alcoholics stopped being sober.)) I should start a blog, I guess.
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