Oh, dear....

In Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, they are speaking of Methodologies, why they are a bad idea (as opposed to methodology, the general sort, the capitalized Methodology here is a prescribed cookbook of things to do, designed to make sure every programmer programs to these patterns/structures - which, if it takes on any level of detail at all, is somewhat akin to wrapping your programmers up in tape or rope or something). And there's a paragraph here that just had me dying of laughter. It says in part:

In Australia, where striking uses up nearly as much labor time as working, there is a charming form of strike called work to rule. Rather than walk off the job, workers open up a fat book of procedures and announce, "Until you give us what we're asking for, we're going to work exactly to the rule." When the air traffic controllers do this, for instance, they can only land one plane every seven minutes.

-Page 117, Peopleware, second edition. And I had never heard of that before....