Version 1.0, published 12.17.23

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Introduction

Thousands of people work in the aerospace and defense industry in the United States and abroad. A large number of these workers have found themselves feeling morally compromised in performing their work, having discovered how their work is contributing to the murders of thousands of Palestinians being jointly perpetrated by Israel and the U.S. 

This is a guide to objecting employees who wish to keep their jobs and contribute towards ending the Palestinian genocide via sabotage, or to cause as much destruction as they can before they are fired or quit.

History

This guide is an updated and abridged version of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual published by the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, The Office of Strategic Services, during WWII. The manual was distributed to workers undermining the Nazi war machine by sabotaging their places of employment while living in Nazi occupied territory. 

It is now your turn to use this guide to help end genocide.

General Sabotage Tips

• Try to commit acts for which large numbers of people could be responsible. Consider your ability to make the act look like it came from another team or individual.
• Do not be afraid to commit acts for which you might be blamed directly, so long as you do so rarely, and as long as you have a plausible excuse. Always be profuse in your apologies for such acts. Frequently you can «get away» with such acts under the cover of pretending stupidity, ignorance, or over-caution.
• After you have committed an act of sabotage, resist any temptation to wait around and see what happens. Loitering is suspicion. Conversely, immediately fleeing an area can also be suspicious.
• Be careful. Watch for cameras. Do not write things down. Perform sensitive research on public library computers. Make relevant purchases with cash, in disguise, with your car parked around the block. know that your phone tracks your location.
• Do not tell friends, co-workers, lovers, or family of your work. Do not brag about your accomplishments while intoxicated.

Suggestions for Meetings and Conferences

• Make «speeches.» Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your «points» by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
• Refer all possible matters to large committees for consideration. Attempt to form new committees to refer to.
• Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
• Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
• Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
• Advocate «caution.» Urge your coworkers to be «reasonable» and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
• Constantly raise the question of whether the decision makers in the meeting have proper authority to decide on the issues at hand, suggest that their decisions might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon. Suggest the need to speak with other stakeholders and open up wider commentary.
• Advocate to have as many meetings and conferences as possible

Managers and Supervisors

• Demand written instructions while refusing to provide them for other people.
• Pretend to be computer illiterate.
• «Misunderstand» orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demand hard to acquire materials and tools. Argue that inferior materials will mean inferior work.
• In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.
• 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.
• Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant.
• When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions.
• Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.
• Hold meetings that could have been emails, particularly when there is more critical work to be done.
• Multiply paperwork in plausible ways. Start duplicate files.
• Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, paychecks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.
• Lengthen the hiring process, fire good employees, and simultaneously protect and hire poor workers.
• Send signals to high value employees that they may be fired.
• Encourage return to office policies and drug testing for THC.
• Work against pay raises and benefit improvements.
• Insist on uncomfortable lighting and furniture. Purchase loud equipment.
• Insist on formal dress for employees and be overly critical of their appearances.
• Cancel company parties and well liked perks.
• Hint at having unpopular fascist politics and question DEI initiatives loudly.
• Ban music, art, parties, and dance under concerns of cultural sensitivity.
• Accuse remote employees of time theft, tightly surveil them, and insist on their cameras being on as much as possible.

Office Workers

• Make mistakes in quantity and type of material when you are making orders. Use wrong addresses.
• Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.
• In making copies, make too few, so that extra copies must be made.
• Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another telephone.
• Hold up and misplace incoming and outgoing mail.
• Spread rumors of layoffs, budget cuts, and plant/office closings. Additionally, rumors of substance use/abuse, criminal behavior, and sexual impropriety can also be used against high value employees.
• Botch sales, advertising, and customer support efforts.

Factory Employees

• Work slowly. Think of ways to increase the number of movements and steps necessary for your job.
• Make 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.
• Pretend to not understand useful non-English languages.
• Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.
• Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complaining that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.
• Never successfully pass on your skill to another employee.
• Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.
• Join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the management. Make the group as big as possible. Drag out negotiations. See that the solutions adopted are as inconvenient as possible.
• Misroute materials.
• Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion

• Give lengthy, unhelpful answers whenever possible.
• Report imaginary saboteurs or danger to management and authorities.
• Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.
• Misunderstand all sorts of regulations concerning such matters as pollution, safety, and accounting.
• Eat and dispose of other workers' meals.
• Leave dog poop in places it’s likely to be tracked in.
• Leave nails in the parking lot to ruin tires.
• Lose paper receipts.
• Create ice on walking paths.
• Introduce unpleasant smells by doing things like hiding rotting potatoes and urine ice cubes in inaccessible crevices.
• Introduce hideable, battery powered devices that make intermittent noises.
• Frequently flush items like tampons and wipes down the toilet.
• Create infestations with purchased and collected insects and vermin.
• Introduce dangerous mold to damp areas and then proceed to report it.
• Make various surfaces sticky with soda.
• Leave disturbing pornographic material and drug paraphernalia to be found, leading to costly HR investigations
• Break fluorescent light bulbs, insist on official protocols for mercury remediation, resulting in a part of the building being uninhabitable for multiple days. Call OSHA if it does not happen.
• Clog sinks with hair and leave the water running, resulting in floods.
• If you are to quit, do so by taking leave for an illness and claiming you will be returning once you are better. Do not come back.
• Jam debris in key ways.
• Keep the work environment as hot or as cold as possible, ideally alternating between the two regularly.

General Advice for Those Utilizing Computers in Their Jobs

• Strong magnets can be used to irreparably scramble data and harm chips on many forms of electronics.
• Blocking ventilation on computers and servers can lead to their overheating and shorten their life. This can be done periodically with fabric, or in a more permanent fashion by using dust bunnies and other debris that can get sucked in.
• Accidentally causing spills on electronic equipment can render them unusable. Ice can be used to do this on a delay to avert suspicion.
• Mislabel files and store them incorrectly, ideally in places where they are not backed up.
• Delay backups and software updates for as long as possible.
• Break off sticks and other debris in ports.
• Put sharp bends in cords to cause them to break prematurely.
• Introducing a mix of chalk and graphite dust to computer air intakes — this combination is particularly destructive.
• Plug equipment directly into outlets instead of using surge protectors.
• Utilize «USB killer» thumb drives which charge from computer current and then shock the motherboard, disabling it.
• Require passwords be changed as often as possible and be made as long and complicated as possible. Disallow password managers and require the password be entered as often as possible.
• Encourage the purchase of inefficient hardware and software with a low initial purchase price and high maintenance cost.
• Collect, store, and share the names and contact information of people working in weapons production. Do so by taking pictures and writing on paper as opposed to sharing digitally.
• Prioritize the destruction of shared equipment like printers, network splitters, routers, and projectors. Additionally, prioritize the destruction of surveillance equipment.
• Pretend to be computer illiterate.
• Write bad, buggy, poorly documented code.
• Encourage the use of older, slower forms of technology, like fax machines. Be overly skeptical of new technology under the guise of security concerns.
• Cut ethernet and telephone lines. Disconnect networking equipment whenever possible.

Notes for Those Working With Vehicles and Machinery

• Replace tire valve caps with ones that have small ball bearings jammed into the tip that you’ve painted black. This will cause them to leak out overnight without obvious cause.
• Under lubricate machinery and introduce abrasive contaminants to the lubricants.
• Add sugar, salt, water, and other debris to gasoline and diesel supplies.
• Cause damage to belts driving fans and other similar components so they wear out prematurely.
• Ignore maintenance tasks.
• Report vague imaginary problems with machines for investigation while ignoring actual problems. 
• Use slingshots to simulate flying debris, causing destruction and safety concerns.
• Loosen, remove, and lose bolts from machines, making it look like they vibrated apart.
• Acetone and gasoline can destroy rubber tires and other components.