Below is the text of one of the first instructions on the scientific organization of labor, developed in the early twenties of the last century by Alexey Kapitonovich Gastev. This instruction, by the way, hung in the Kremlin office of VI Lenin.

Try, however, to read it, setting up a preliminary erotic mood ...

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Whether we work at a stationery table, sawing with a file in a locksmith's shop, or, finally, we plow the land — everywhere it is necessary to create working endurance and gradually make it a habit.

Here are the first basic rules for all labor:

1. Before embarking on a job, it is necessary to think it over all, think it over so that the model of the finished work and the whole order of labor practices finally form in my head. If you can’t think everything through, you can think over the main milestones, and think over the first parts of the work thoroughly.

2. Do not take up work until you have prepared all the working tools and all accessories for work.

3. At the workplace (machine, workbench, table, floor, earth) there should not be anything superfluous in order to waste but poke around, not fuss and look for the right one among the unnecessary.

4. All tools and fixtures should be laid out in a certain, if possible once and for all, established order, so that all this can be found at random.

5. You never have to take a job coolly, right away, not to get off the ground, but go into the work gradually. The head and the body will then go out and earn; and if you take it right away, you will soon be cut off, as they say, and you will “screw up” the work. After a steep initial rush, the employee soon gives up: he himself will experience fatigue, and work will spoil.

6. In the course of work, sometimes it is necessary to forcefully impose: either in order to master anything out of the ordinary, or in order to take something together, artel. In such cases, it is not necessary to press on immediately, but first to tune in, you need to adjust your whole body and mind, you have to recharge, so to speak; then it is necessary to try a little, to find the necessary force and after that to attract it.

7. It is necessary to work as evenly as possible so that there is no ebb and flow: the work is in the heat of the moment, with seizures and spoils the person and work.

8. The landing of the body during work should be such that it is convenient to work and at the same time the forces would not be wasted on completely unnecessary keeping the body on the legs. If possible, you should work while sitting. If you can not sit, you need to keep your legs apart so that the leg set forward or to the side does not take off, you need to arrange it.

9. During work it is necessary to rest. In hard work it is necessary to rest more often and, if possible, to sit, in light work rest is rare, but even.

10. During the work itself, do not eat, do not drink tea, drink, as a last resort, to quench your thirst; it is not necessary to smoke, it is better to smoke during work breaks than during the work itself.

11. If the work doesn’t work, then don’t get excited, but it’s better to take a break, think again and start again quietly again; even purposely slow down in order to endure yourself.

12. During the work itself, especially when it comes to it, it is necessary to interrupt the work, put the workplace in order, carefully lay down the tools and material, sweep up the rubbish and go back to work again and gradually, but evenly.

13. It is not necessary in the work to break away for another matter, except for the necessary in the work itself.

14. There is a very bad habit: after successfully doing the work, immediately show it; here it is imperative to “endure”, so to speak, get used to success, crush your satisfaction, make it internal; and then another time in case of failure, the “poisoning” of the will will turn out and the work will be opposed.

15. In the case of a complete failure, you should easily look at the case and not be upset, start work again, as if for the first time, and behave as indicated in rule 11.

sixteen.At the end of the work, everything must be cleaned up: the work, the tool, and the workplace; we should put everything in a certain place so that when we start working again, you can find everything and the work itself is not oppressed.