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TheGhostofElizabethShue
The Good Place committee
SoupForMyFamily
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/07/politics/chip-roy-democratic-obstruction-2022/index.html
BiologicalSonny
Tbh most people do this by default whenever you try and organize, so... Checkmate CIA?
Sixsystems
Isn't this also the signs of a defective boss from Dilbert?
TheSecondPiewackit
This is literally how Officers in the military behave.
BreakTheCode
So congress and senate essentially
farflung1
...how to spot people who need to be introduced to a baseball bat...by surprise... from behind. ? Traitors to all humanity!
FireArrow
This is just a regular meeting. Don't try to make it cool by claiming CIA invented it!
HiddenSanity
That's why they declassified the technique, turns out there's always already someone doing this, making it kinda useless.
AdobewanKenobe
Mitch?
strongface4400
Sounds like Fox News and the Republican stategy. Theyre all assholes
blackbirdspyplane
Sounds like a Tuesday
DCNR
This is spot for spot soooo many "leaders".
magicronin
I used to recommend reading the full section to my team. It helped reduce the inefficiencies when people realized they were often saboteurs
Anonymous0199846
So... Joe Biden on student loans?
ComradeBrickFrog
Ive been this person ("follow procedure!"); Ive organized w/ this person (reopen closed business!); and Ive seen them on TV (Mitch McConnel)
JeffreyDeTar
This is my mother and my current boss.
YourLatinLover
Noted for whenever need to bust a filibuster out on a bitch
Guy0185
FlametongueKavu
So they found Trump’s playbook
BioGoji1989
Bullshit. That implies Trump knows how to write. More likely it's McConnell's playbook.
TsubakiTragic
Step 1... read "Wasp" by Eric Frank Russell. Step 2... bring down planet wide government. Step 3... Scotch and Dry please.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
TheManTheyCallFunshine
Wow, the longer I get the worse it looks
Chakra5
so very right, and yet oh so wrong
johnnyxd270
Immediately recalled Mitch McConnell's speech after voting to not impeach trump for Jan6. Like a template. Trump can't finesse like this.
HandoB4Javert
WoodyGoodman
DoomSquirter
imagining he'd replace assface on a miracle new season of preacher
TheRealArclight
CaldariBob
Hitler doesn't look too happy...
Dragonofthewest718
Good. He should never be happy, even in death
mechanicalchaos
https://media1.tenor.com/images/d5074b814bbe528de66e15300545421d/tenor.gif
Snowdemoman
I personally have had to suffer some of these.
rotzverpopelt
TIL: my company is infiltrated by the CIA
itsthevoiceman
Nah, they just realized that the worst possible human traits can be used to fuck with people.
brotherThree
TIL; my boss is CIA
jds2582
Same.
Jonduke19
No no no. It's called "Agile"
caerulakid
Are we talking the product lifecycle management system or that programming uhh… thing? Cause yes to both (I hear).
Jonduke19
Yes
iQuitlmgurAndNeverLookedBack
Consider yourself lucky it was just your company; the entire USA has been infiltrated for years!
madeejit
Its really about getting the balance right.
SoupForMyFamily
Warbirds
Is there a source for this? I’d love the full version!
elucca
Here's the whole thing: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/page-images/26184-images.pdf
catrov
This sounds like ... dare I say it ... government in the US today.
Scield
Atleast the last 40 years
TheImmunerd
Apparently my grad school p.i. was an OSS agent and not JUST an asshole
MightyRacc00n
No shit - I WISH academic meetings were run this way, it would be a lot more efficient.
skapanda616
This just sounds like being the worst person in any meeting or group project intentionally...
captaingrump
It is. The OSS and CIA wanted to be able to get insiders at any organization to cripple things without blowing anything up.
MrChurch
This is my boss.
CharlesOffdensen
This is MY boss.
shadowpeople
That sounds like my work too. Office politics yay
magicrhombus
Yes, that is the point.
Acronymicon
But with more steps
Tarmaccian
Yep. It’s from a manual for saboteurs, teaching how to cause trouble without getting caught.
itsthevoiceman
Yup
OsIgnis
Sounds like a lot of meetings I have been in.
Taxicat
This sounds like my manager at work.
hotdoginathermos
Skywalker2416
And annoying Karens. I do tech support for a certain car company. You’d be amazed at all of them. Male, female, and other. Goddamn toddlers.
Magjee
They won't suspect you though. (that idiot? Too stupid to pull it off!)
michealikruhara0110
That's literally what this is. Imagine if your teammate was trying to sabotage the whole project and bring you down with them.
skapanda616
They should add "speak louder, longer, and speak last"
skapanda616
I can almost picture the guy who drafted this thinking "I'll just describe Dave at the last conference, that fuckin wanker will never know"
Flowerlady0
Who's that guy with Dave
HotSauceEnema
I think all teams need a devil's advocate. I hate going with plans that have been unchallenged
interesseret
I don't know how to tell you this kindly, bro, so here it is: everyone fucking hates you at your workplace
DysgraphicProgrammer
^Found the CIA agent
usersayswhat
Wait, why do you think that? But yeah seriously everyone on your team hates you for wasting their time. Challenge assumptions in 1 on 1 1/2
usersayswhat
Before the meeting and get the key parts into a couple bullet points at the meeting. If you don't want to take the time to do that 2/3
usersayswhat
You don't *really*care about developing a process, you just care about looking smart. Meetings should clarify and confirm previously 3/4
usersayswhat
Reviews and developed ideas. They should not be test beds as that it's too many person-hours to use up the time
EvilKam
I work in a government healthcare facility, and this behavior is mandated through the Federal Acquisition Rules. Every attempt to improve
EvilKam
efficiency in my day-to-day operations is shot down by leadership or shot down by pre-existing regulations. Every single monetary decision
EvilKam
is handled as though every transaction is a potential career-ending mis-deed.
InconspicuousCapybara
You've hit the risk averse nature of the 1102 Community on the head.
EvilKam
After the first couple of multi-million-dollar lawsuits, I imagine executives start getting pretty cagey.
sciencebasedlifeform
Acquisition rules you say?
Ryebread91
I was thinking about the ferengi reading that too.
LordNergal
I can guarantee you at least a quarter of those regs were written by someone with no experience in your field who was simply doing a job 1/
LordNergal
for a quick paycheck and who never thought twice about it. 2/2
EvilKam
No, more likely the rules were a result of a person getting caught doing something, so after each such event, newer stricter rules are
keystotheairlock
How the fuck did this become the American Corporate playbook page 1? Not asking for a friend.
ThailandExpress
corporates America's obsession with Ayn Rand
LordNergal
A mixture of lawsuits and tin pot dictators. Mostly the tin pot dictators.
Ilverus
Same reason for car insurance. Lawsuits, regulations, and self-preservation in the face of a very litigious American society.
keystotheairlock
Ehhhh……
EvilKam
Lawsuits are my theory. Anyone negatively affected by anything immediately jumps to the conclusion of "Oh, I just won the lottery!"
morelikeconsham
That mentality is the product of a smear campaign by McDonalds to ruin the reputation of an old woman they mutilated. Corporate America is
morelikeconsham
not some poor victim of a litigious society - if anything, lawsuits are one of the only halfway functioning consumer protections we have.
EvilKam
The federal employees I work with consider injuries as potential luxury retirement plans. The mindset exceeds corporations. It's ubiquitous.
morelikeconsham
The perception that lawsuits are opportunities is what's ubiquitous, and it was engineered.