Compliance to a fault
Posted by thecollective 11 years, 1 month ago to Philosophy
I'm having trouble finding the name of a concept / theory that I believe is housed in some school of psychology, I'm hoping someone here can help me out.
It's the concept of doing what you're instructed to do, regardless of the fact that you know it is incorrect, in order to prove the premise is incorrect. I seem to remember it was included as some form of noncompliance or nonviolent protest. To sum it up in plain English, it's the idea of doing what you're told even when you know it will cause a problem, because you've been told to just do as you're told and not to think for yourself - you don't fight the order and comply, in order to prove the fact that it's wrong and willfully let it fail.
"Give them everything they want and all of it they can handle."
It's the concept of doing what you're instructed to do, regardless of the fact that you know it is incorrect, in order to prove the premise is incorrect. I seem to remember it was included as some form of noncompliance or nonviolent protest. To sum it up in plain English, it's the idea of doing what you're told even when you know it will cause a problem, because you've been told to just do as you're told and not to think for yourself - you don't fight the order and comply, in order to prove the fact that it's wrong and willfully let it fail.
"Give them everything they want and all of it they can handle."
Rules said you had to have a certain number of pizzas made per hour based on sale with a minimum at all times. They had to be thrown away and fresh ones made every 30 minutes, pepperoni rolls hit the trash every 20 minutes.
After doing this for a while one of the other employees asked the manager if he was going to do something about all the food I was throwing away and he said "Do what? He's following the book exactly."
the worst I've ever done, was one time for a micro-manager, I stopped doing anything until I received the next instruction. The situation would correct for a while, then revert.
I work in an environment that is frequently dominated by the "You're paid to do, not to think" mentality, so this topic of discussion comes up frequently in watercooler chit-chat ;-)
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