The Soviet workers had it down to a science.
They just did about a quarter of the assigned tasks, checked off the checklists as everything done, and then came back the next day to rinse and repeat.
It wasn’t quite sabotage, it was more like negligence....
I remember that. Thanks.
Slave labor in German war plants did all sorts of things that hurt the German war effort. They were good at it, too.
As the Soviet workers said, “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us”.
Similar problems exist in union shops in the US; diligent workers are told to slow down.