Timeline for Sabotaging through purposeful procrastination
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| Jan 14, 2016 at 3:26 | comment | added | Hot Licks | "Dragging your feet" is probably the simplest and best known idiom for this. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 3:16 | answer | added | Mike Jones | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 5, 2015 at 21:52 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 14:58 | answer | added | Zibbobz | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 12:51 | comment | added | Neil | Quoting the wikipedia article for sabotage, sabotage "derives from the French sabot (a wooden shoe or clog) via its derivative saboter (to knock with the foot, or work carelessly).[1] Sabot is the French name for the brake on a horse wagon; it was pressed against the outer rim of a wheel to stop the wagon. For the workers it meant slower work." Interestingly, the original meaning of sabotage was to purposefully slowdown work, and not simply outright destruction. | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 4:06 | comment | added | Mazura | Finally, somewhere to use sandbagging (instead of hustle). | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 21:13 | comment | added | Jenn D. | Having read the other comments and answers to date, I would say that Hurkyl's "sandbagging" nails it for me. The perpetrator is pretending to have a lower level of competence or ability, in order to slow down progress without causing suspicion of malicious intent. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 20:45 | answer | added | kolossus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 18:27 | answer | added | Scott - Слава Україні | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 18:05 | answer | added | Dan C | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 16:40 | comment | added | BrianH | I never considered intentional procrastination as a form of passive-aggressive sabotage...TIL. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 15:48 | answer | added | sirdank | timeline score: 22 | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 9:58 | comment | added | user66219 | "Stalling" and "sandbagging" both come to mind, but I'm not sure how well they fit your need. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 5:52 | comment | added | pkaeding | It doesn't really pertain to this example, but this reminds me of a pocket veto. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 3:26 | answer | added | aparente001 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 2:21 | answer | added | Marius Hancu | timeline score: 23 | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 1:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/583446668424699904 | ||
| Apr 2, 2015 at 0:15 | vote | accept | SF. | ||
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:39 | answer | added | ScotM | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:34 | answer | added | Centaurus | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:32 | answer | added | T.E.D. | timeline score: 23 | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:30 | comment | added | SF. | @JimMack: Running [someone] out of the clock? | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:25 | comment | added | Jim Mack | A sports metaphor might be running out the clock | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 23:22 | history | asked | SF. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |