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Because it was written during active wartime, the book includes various suggestions for causing physical violence and destruction, such as starting fires, flooding warehouses, breaking tools, etc. But it also includes many suggestions for how to just generally be annoying within a bureaucracy or office setting.

Pretty sure I've worked with people who read this ...

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

The manual backed up on wayback machine https://web.archive.org/collection-search/gov-pdf/simple%20sabotage%20field%20manual

For those of us who prefer PDFs:

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

EDIT: a better copy from the good ol' internet archive

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).

Direct link to the book (without the backref):

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184