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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 244 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The CIA wrote a manual on how to do this. It's a bit old and parts of it are outdate for some times of work, but a lot of it is still useful.

  • Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders
  • Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products
  • Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done (some might say normal businesses do this as a matter of course...)
  • Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible
[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 98 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shit, 80% of the people I work with must have read that manual then. That’s a near daily occurrence.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every web project manager I’ve ever had apparently lived by this manual.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure this is our company policy

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"What about the droid attack on the wookies?"

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

What about the flamethrower attack on the Geonosians?

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is also the perfect manual for how to cosplay as energy vampire Colin Robinson.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

is it? i think we need to hold a meeting to discuss the merits of using this as a manual for cosplaying as the energy vampire Colin Robinson. And for that matter the merits of using it as a manual for cosplaying as any other energy vampire. In fact i think we should make this a weekly standup to ensure continued validity of using it as a manual for cosplaying as energy vampires, Colin Robinson or not. I'll schedule it for monday morning.