Corporate Sabotage Field Guide
Corporate Sabotage Field Guide
Management-Level Techniques for Systemic Disruption and Psychological Erosion
About the Book
The Corporate Sabotage Field Guide is a black-ops satire disguised as a tactical handbook for middle management.
Styled after wartime field manuals and insurgency playbooks, this guide explores the dark art of systemic sabotage through the lens of professional respectability. Each technique mimics a recognizable corporate behavior — peer reviews, KPIs, onboarding programs, alignment rituals — but subtly weaponized to generate maximum dysfunction with minimal traceability.
Perfect for the cynical practitioner, the burned-out IC, the frustrated agile coach, or the manager who’s just a little too good at playing the game.
Included Features
- Dozens of sabotage patterns: from 'Simulate Cultural Change, Then Install an Air Hockey Table' to 'Mentorship as Control or Contempt'
- Multi-pattern combo attacks for compounding damage across teams and systems
- A debrief from Brigadier-General Mallory, welcoming new recruits to the Hidden Badger Division
- An unnervingly plausible tone that makes it unclear if you’re laughing or crying
Caution! Reader discretion is advised!
Prolonged exposure may result in pattern recognition, spontaneous dissociation, or the irreversible realization that you’ve accidentally implemented three of these patterns yourself.
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Reader Testimonials
Anonymous
C-Suite Executive, Fortune 200
Tragically, I implemented these techniques without realizing it was satire. I now run the company.
Chet G. Pitee
Former Scrum Master, now Vice President of Cross-Functional Maturity
I implemented just three of the patterns and my team hasn't delivered a single project in nine months. Upper management gave me a bonus for ‘strategic patience’. 10/10.
Omar L.
Concerned Engineer (currently building a bunker)
I left this book in the break room by accident. Two directors promoted each other within a week.
Shadow Fern
Lt. Cmdr. (ret.), OSSD - Hidden Badger Cell Ops
Finally, a management manual that speaks to my core values: deniability, ambiguity, and quarterly optics
Table of Contents
- CLASSIFIED FIELD MANUAL
- CORPORATE SABOTAGE FIELD GUIDE
- OSSD HIGH COMMAND – CLASSIFIED BRIEFING
- The OSSD Division Creed
- Chapter 1:Management-Level Techniques for Systemic Disruption and Psychological Erosion
- Agent Profile
- How to Use This Guide
- Cautions
- Chapter 2:The saboteur’s toolkit
- The Seven Pillars of Sabotage
- How to Deploy Your First Sabotage
- Tactical Reminder
- Exfiltration Protocol: How to Exit Without Trace
- Estimated Time to Ruin an Organization Using This Guide
- Chapter 3:Operative Spotlight: “Shadow Fern”
- Agent Fern’s Masterclass in Sabotage
- Aftermath and Legacy
- OSSD Internal Commendation
- Chapter 4:Trust Erosion & Psychological Undermining
- Mentorship as Control or Contempt
- Weaponize the 360
- Feedback Whiplash
- Promise Support, Deliver Ambush
- Strategic Omission
- Vague Warnings, Invisible Witnesses
- ‘No Surprises!’ Culture
- Penalize Informal Help
- Spin Conflict as Passion
- Chapter 5:Administrative Overload & Process Churn
- Track It All. Then Ask for Email.
- Track Everything. Align Nothing.
- Accuracy Over Progress
- Mutual Blockade, Disguised as Peer Review
- Change the Form, Not the Process
- If It’s Not in the Tool, It Didn’t Happen
- FYI Firehose
- Confuse Strategy with Branding
- Do Everything Now, But Strategically
- Chapter 6:Visibility Theater & Recognition Games
- Promote the Paperclip Closer
- Reward Crisis, Ignore Prevention
- Celebrate the Narrators. Forget the Builders.
- Set Metrics That Incentivize Sabotage
- CC Cascade
- Freeze Targets, Slash Staff
- Mandatory Optionalism
- Reorg the Org Chart, Not the Problems
- Obscure Ownership with Vague Role Labels
- Chapter 7:Empowerment as a Weapon
- Simulate Cultural Change. Then Install an Air Hockey Table.
- Empowerment by Ambiguity
- Trap the Trainer
- The Patsy Rotation
- Starve First, Reward Later (if ever)
- Ownership by Inbox
- Create a Bottleneck, Then Obstruct It
- Rotating Accountability Cloak
- Chapter 8:Structural Fragmentation & Cross-Team Chaos
- Reassign in the Shadows
- Entangle the Critical Path
- The Organizational Man-in-the-Middle
- Divide and Distract
- Move the Body, Leave the Org Chart
- Thread Drift
- Celebrate Misalignment as Diversity of Thought
- Always Blame the Edges
- Plan Everything. Then Ignore It.
- Complementary Advanced Techniques
- The Roadmap to Hell — A Five-Step Deployment Sequence
- Chapter 9:Tactical Combination Sets: Precision Sabotage Bundles
- The Mentorship Trap
- The Helpful Colleague Eradicator
- The Process Cage
- The Alignment Nightmare
- The Performance Paradox
- The Culture Decay Spiral
- The “Strategic Freeze” Combo
- The Visibility Mirage
- The Career Cement Mixer
- The Feedback Mirror Maze
- The Collaborative Guillotine
- The Ritual of Permanent Planning
- The Fragmentation Trap
- Chapter 10:Top 5 Most Devious Sabotages Impactful Techniques
- 1. Simulate Cultural Change, Then Install an Air Hockey Table
- 2. Track Everything. Align Nothing.
- 3. Mutual Blockade, Disguised as Peer Review
- 4. Mentorship as Control or Contempt
- 5. Set Metrics That Incentivize Sabotage
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