WWII resistance: follow fascist orders...sloooowly

[yurbud]

I remembered seeing something on the history channel about the Dutch resistance to the Nazis, and a neat passive-aggressive tactic they used was slowing everything down just enough to drive them nuts.

I wonder what the effect would be if people in government agencies that have to implement Bush's orders did that here...

lose a memo

leave a signature off

ship something a day later and miss a deadline

stay home sick a bit more often

I would not advocate anyone do this, of course.

It's just a random thought.

[Skittles]

1. I did this tactic once

I worked as a programmer at a phone company and received a ticket about an error in billing.....reading the customer's file, I saw a notation where he had requested to "not speak to black reps" (this wish was not being granted; the notation was made solely to point out the customer was an asshole) - I found this customer highly offensive so I didn't do anything, kept getting extensions on the ticket - it drove the customer absolutely crazy (I kept checking the notations section for his screaming complaints). I loved it! :thumbsup:

[MADem]

2. Passive-aggressive behavior

Yep, it can be maddening, and if played properly, one can claim anything from illness to lack of intelligence to simple incompetence to account for it! The way to be VERY successful is to create the appearance of being overwhelmingly busy when the brass strolls through, while doing absolutely nothing at all....

[punpirate]

3. Incompetence in government...

... should be something the Bushies wouldn't notice at all.... :)

[yurbud]

8. they would notice if it interfered with profit

[yurbud]

7. hmmm....the last part kind of wrecks it--I used to be a messenger

and every office I went into every person was playing solitaire, so it would be tough to do something to make it worse.

[truth2power]

11. Remember in Schindler's List, where Oscar Schindler's

factory was shipping out ammunition to the Nazis that was just a little off and would never fire successfully, or something like that.

[yurbud]

14. exactly. Maybe the White House maid can forget to put toilet paper in

Bush's john.

[Che_Nuevara]

4. This is actually not unknown in America.

It happens from time to time in the Justice Department to buy just a little more time for a case to come to fruition before trial, for example.

[rooboy]

5. The "go slow" has been used by unions in the past as well. n/t

[hootinholler]

6. Yep, it's called "work to rule"

And can be as effective as an all out strike.

-Hoot

[Winston702]

9. If you want to know what the Dutch Resistance really was

Here is a video you may be interested in:

http://www.calvinstuff.com/dvds/special-dvd.htm

[yurbud]

13. I know there were other aspects of it; any you want to share?

[Winston702]

15. A few questions

In my opinion our current plight is nowhere near what they faced.

2 questions:

Are you willing to die for the cause?

Are you willing to have your family die for the cause?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. This was done in Czechoslovakia after the Red Army rolled in in 1968

Russian had been a required subject in school for 20 years, but all of a sudden, no one could speak or read it.

Street signs disappeared.

Supplies for the Red Army "got lost."

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. This has been a labor tactic, well, forever