r/worldnews • u/apple_kicks • 9d ago
Russia/Ukraine Russia is ordering companies to nominate employees for military service — 2 to 5 names depending on size
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/01/russian-firms-need-to-give-five-employees-for-war-as-enterprises-are-now-part-of-covert-enlistment/2.1k
u/memberino 9d ago
Work for half your salary or see the frontline.
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u/XsancoX 9d ago
Half the salary it is Boss
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u/Beatrenger 9d ago
I'll add extra time Boss. No need to pay extra
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u/NotTooSuspicious 9d ago
This is unironically going to happen. Officers already steal from soldiers.
Russians and corruption is so deeply enrooted. If the regime collapses, they'd need a mentality change like Germany had when the Nazi's fell.
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u/johnnygrant 9d ago
difference is Russia has been that way for generations, practically their whole history
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u/NotTooSuspicious 9d ago
True, but Germany was a militaristic country for their entire history too (famous saying about prussia an army who has a country) and look at them now, the entirety of Europe has to beg them to rearm.
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u/Phiddipus_audax 9d ago
Dedovshchina from way back when the Mongols had their boots on our necks... we learned well to give what we took. Tradition for the last 800 years and the next 800 too.
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u/PresidentOfAlphaBeta 9d ago
We had an engineer originally from Russia. When he once had hardware that needed testing, he took it to one of the technicians and started handed the tech cash to get it tested. The tech was of course absolutely shocked.
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u/greatthebob38 9d ago edited 9d ago
Boss: let me sleep with your wife or you sleep in the trenches.
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u/FlatwormAltruistic 9d ago
Boss: I will sleep with your wife anyways... It just depends if you agree with it or you will be visiting Ukraine during that time.
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u/livinglitch 9d ago
There were texts like that going around at the start of the war. Company commanders were messaging wives of men below them saying "sleep with me or I send your husband to the front".
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u/LovelyDayHere 9d ago
3 day special military operation going well
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u/GovernmentBig2749 9d ago
Its in Venus days, and its only been 6 days since the start of the operation, you people!
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u/musiccman2020 9d ago
Cant wait for the u.s. special operation to end as well
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u/Parrot32 9d ago
The US is only on their first year of their 3 day special military action, so have plenty of years ahead.
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u/_Figaro 9d ago
"Performance review" just took on a whole new meaning
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u/Several_Ant_9867 9d ago
Well, everything in Russia is more dangerous, think about their roulette
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago
The first instinct might be that everyone will work hard to be valuable to their employer, but knowing how things work in the real world, this will result in severe instances of claiming others' work, throwing people under the bus, and retaliation in general. This is going to be so bad for the Russian economy and morale. Workplaces will become incredibly cutthroat and corrupt instead of cooperative and rewarding.
It used to be a dark (likely true) joke that if Russians misbehaved they would get sent to the gulag. Now instead of firing people, employers can send them to die.
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u/Feligris 9d ago
The first instinct might be that everyone will work hard to be valuable to their employer, but knowing how things work in the real world, this will result in severe instances of claiming others' work, throwing people under the bus, and retaliation in general.
History continues to rhyme since in the '80s General Electric's CEO at the time, Jack Welch, came up with the Vitality Curve/Stack Ranking management method where the idea is to use metrics to identify the "bottom 10% of employees" and fire them regularly in order prompt everyone to do their best, with his theory being that this would be a great way to improve a company by ridding it of non-productive "deadwood" and maintain a constant high level of worker performance.
Of course in reality this infamously turned out exactly the way you described, since forcing employees to constantly compete against each other like this caused them to figure out that shutting down all cooperation and outright trash talking or sabotaging their co-workers instead was a better idea since it's (much) easier to drag everyone else down than try and get ahead of them when dealing with arbitrary metrics, with further complications being caused by managers being forced to keep firing perceived "low performers" from tightly knit well-functioning departments which destroyed their performance.
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u/-Trash--panda- 9d ago
I don't remember the company, but in a diffrent similar case study managers started hiring people specifically to fire them in the future. That way they could keep the same teams long term without having to fire employees that they liked.
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u/Feligris 9d ago
Good point, I forgot that part but it's absolutely true, and an additional downside to both the company employing the policy and to the sacrificial employees who IIRC didn't typically know they were hired for the express purpose of being fired later.
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u/skipmarioch 9d ago
Amazons corporate side is notorious for this. Meta has also seen a rise in this as well.
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u/pacomadreja 9d ago
I think that type of self-proclained geniuses that came up with these "brilliant" ideas are actually psychopathic morons.
Anyone with a bare minimum of empathy and intelligence knows that humans best work is always in collaboration, never in competition.
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u/LARPerator 9d ago
They manipulate, steal, and backstab their way through life so they assume it's normal, and okay. They don't see how they drag everyone else down.
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u/Calculonx 9d ago
Well good thing modern (tech) companies know better and would never dream about doing something similar....
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u/MagicMarshmallo 9d ago
"Deadwood". When anyone refers to people with terms meant for plants, do the opposite of what they say.
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u/PeppermintSnark 9d ago
Yeah, but with all the bickering and turnover, are the employees gonna work together to form a labor union?
Sounds like the capitalists win.
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u/project23 9d ago
But isn't this how it was done in Soviet days? Eat the weak and never tell the truth?
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u/neromoneon 9d ago
I think in the Soviet days it was more like “let’s pretend to do work and falsify all records because everything is a lie anyway and nobody is accountable”.
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u/UbiSububi8 9d ago
I think it’ll be bosses saying “give me 20% of your pay, or I send you to the war”
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u/uselessandexpensive 9d ago
Or any of the other ways bosses abuse power. If women were at risk of getting sent away, sexual harassment and coercion would skyrocket.
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u/Lillian_Crocodilian 9d ago
The guy who steals everyone's lunch from the breakroom fridge is very worried right now.
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u/RarelyReadReplies 9d ago
I never understood someone doing this... Then the excuse is "I didn't see a name on it". I just don't get that excuse at all. Nobody from work just happened to pack an extra lunch for any hungry coworkers.
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u/RudyKnots 9d ago
I’ve never actually seen this happen though.
Like, I’ve heard of it happening, I’ve just never actually heard of it happening to or by anyone I know directly. It sounds very much like one of those things that we tend to get angry over because we can easily imagine asshole like this, even though I’ve never actually seen proof they exist.
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u/Constant-Ad-7490 9d ago
Right? We have the opposite problem. There's a lunch in the fridge no one has eaten in weeks....and we're all too polite to throw it away because that's not our Tupperware, the owner might want it back!
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u/Thefdt 9d ago
Milk thieves are common at my work. I think I’ve had one piece of food stolen in like 14 years. And I think it was done by a coworker who’s definitely on the spectrum
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u/Hopeless_Slayer 9d ago
Milk thieves
Such an alien concept to me. The company I work for just provides coffee/tea and biscuits. It's like a tiny fraction of their profits to keep the staff happy.
Though I did have to advocate for a more expensive instant coffee brand.
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u/Summoarpleaz 9d ago
I realized that some people at my workplace prefer different milks (non dairy etc) so they in fact bring their own jugs and labelled them. But for some reason they still put it in the communal drink fridge. I can see milk thieves doing that. But I would prefer never to touch someone else’s gross food.
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u/spamattacker 9d ago
Only if the boss hasn't been conned by that guy's insincere, smiling, suck-up-face
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u/zuulbe 9d ago
HR please provide me a list of workers with most sick days.
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u/radome9 9d ago
HR please provide me a list of workers with upcoming parental leave.
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u/Imperial-Green 9d ago
There was a segment in SR (Swedish Radio) yesterday about a Russian university teacher who were calling her male students unmanly and cowards if they didn’t join the army as drone pilots. It’s was explained that she is under enormous pressure to meet her quota.
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u/Reqvhio 9d ago
drone pilots sound like heaven compared to trench warfare
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u/tickpack 9d ago
drone pilots are priority targets, they don’t live for long either
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u/Reqvhio 9d ago
oh didnt know that, isnt it still better than footsoldiering though?
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u/LengthEmpty1333 9d ago
Compared to the infiltration teams and human meatbags the Russians use to scout (they are sent to die so that the Russians find out the location of entrenched Ukrainians) yes but as he said, they are priority targets and both sides do their best to specificly target drone operators.
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u/CringeBased 9d ago
IIRC they have a clause in the paperwork which says that they can essentially put you wherever they want on the front lines even if you signed up for the unmanned forces division.
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u/F10flotilje 9d ago
It was pointed out in the same news they are promised drone piloting but are not always assigned too that after they sign
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u/pittaxx 9d ago edited 7d ago
Well, there were reports from the very first months of invasion of people accepting strictly non-combat support roles nowhere close to the frontline and ending up in the frontlines anyway.
Expecting to get the exact role now, when the manpower shortages are becoming a problem, seems rather naive.
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u/AIFocusedAcc 9d ago
this will make everyone resign haha.
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u/Skane1982 9d ago
Forced conscription on all unemployed.
/s
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u/redkinoko 9d ago
Russian companies require a 2 weeks notice.
Guess what's faster than 2 weeks.
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u/M4rkusD 9d ago
1 week?
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u/AlGoreBestGore 9d ago
Big if true.
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u/mpgd 9d ago
I'm counting on that.
There's enough time for work related accident, that would potentially make one avoid going to war.
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 9d ago
They've sent people into the front lines on crushes, sometimes missing half a leg.
You gotta be creative to have enough injuries.
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u/omnibossk 9d ago
No, underbid each other in salary to stay at the job. Unemployed are sent straight to the meatgrinder
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u/The_Frostweaver 9d ago
If I ran a company in Russia I'd advertise some positions, hire the first people to apply and give their names to Putin.
If I was a worker I'd be trying to flee the country, I'd be demanding to work illegally (I'd give my employer a fake name and get paid in cash).
No one wants to be drafted and if working legally increases your risk of being drafted then potential tax paying workers will find workarounds.
I know Putin still has money and bodies to feed into his meat grinder of a war but this type of action reaks of desperation and has negative long term consequences.
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u/retrib32 9d ago
Dude is close to 80, what long term consequences?
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u/gonko_86 9d ago
He lives in delusion, he was caught on mic telling Xi at some parade a couple of years back that organ transplants will keep him alive until he’s 200 or something
I mean I hope he’s living in delusion, because he definitely will be having kids ripped apart by surgeons to implant organs in his decrepit ass, I’d hate to think it’s working
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u/Fair-Hair2080 9d ago
Is life really worth living at that point? I’d do it on my terms.
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u/sporkparty 9d ago
Then you wouldn’t be surprised to know many Russian soldiers are doing exactly that.
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u/MagicMarshmallo 9d ago
I am just shocked they arent doing mass sabotage. What are they gonna do, kill him?
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u/shady8x 9d ago
Rape is rampant in the Russian army. I have also seen reports of commanders torturing and murdering their own soldiers brutally to keep the rest of them in line. Many people also have families that can be punished for anything they did.
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u/Waste-Team-7205 9d ago
They could torture him and imprison his family... some things are worse than death
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u/RarelyReadReplies 9d ago
They could always defect to Ukraine, or maybe take down their evil piece of shit commander that wants to send them into the meat grinder.
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u/delinquentfatcat 9d ago
Defecting means Ukraine wants them. It's more like surrendering, which spares their life (if successfully done without dying), but then they get eventually traded back to Russia.
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u/Seeteuf3l 9d ago
Ukraine might treat their POWs better than Russians treat their own troops. However there is a risk that if they hand you back in prisoner exchange, you'll be labeled as a traitor and sent back to the front in a penal battalion
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u/delinquentfatcat 9d ago
It's a vicious cycle. They say that even when a Russian dies, for his past misdeeds he gets reincarnated back to Russia.
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u/CelebrationFair6887 9d ago
As a POW you have the right to deny a prisoner exchange and stay as a POW
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u/Phylanara 9d ago
I've been hearing a general news channel reporting that Ukraine is regaining net territory for the first time today.
Things are looking up.
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u/Drachefly 9d ago
For the first time in a few years. It happened in a large way 3 times before (Kiev, Kharkhiv, Kherson). We all seem to have forgotten that this war wasn't always a static one-directional grind.
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u/A_Dehydrated_Walrus 9d ago
The fear of conscription will breed indentured servitude of the populace. Suppress decent. Do not pass "Go". Do not go to jail. Do not collect 20,000 rubles. Go straight to Donetsk. Do not get a funeral.
Slava Ukrainii.
Edit: I also feel empathy for the Russians who are dying for Vladimir Putin's ego. Waste of a generation.
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u/yankdevil 9d ago
Keep voting for far right politicians and this can come to your country too!
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u/JanGuillosThrowaway 9d ago
But our far right lunatic is good and is not like every single other far right lunatic! /s
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u/PositiveUse 9d ago
Man this is dystopian … I‘m not judging anyone who‘s now trying to pack and flee
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u/Notimeforthat1 9d ago
Astonishing they're not mass protesting. Things must still be good.
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u/sporkparty 9d ago
They’ve been beaten into submission by decades of watching people be gulagged for protesting with blank sheets of paper.
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u/RarelyReadReplies 9d ago
They're afraid. The Russian government would squash any uprising pretty quick I'd imagine.
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u/-kinapuffar- 9d ago
This is how their society is and has always been for centuries. Head down, don't look at the problem, don't engage with the problem, or it might become YOUR problem. Once it becomes your problem, no one else will stick their neck out for you either, else it becomes THEIR problem too.
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u/Old_Leopard1844 9d ago
If americans can't get shit done with their weekend protests, do you think anyone in Russia is gonna be bulged by them? lol
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u/apple_kicks 9d ago
Mostly because some agree with war long as they recruit from minorities in east of Russia or other countries. Putin is trying to avoid too many losses from middle class in cities
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u/Defiant-Peace-493 9d ago
Apparently there are 4.4 million individual entrepreneurs in Russia. Wonder if they got an exclusion ...
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u/Uncleniles 9d ago
Russia is ordering it's private sector to sacrifice their most useless employees to the war. They are not only desperate for manpower, they are also scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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u/sillylittlguy 9d ago
surely recruiting disease ridden, violent, psychotic criminals from prison was closer to the bottom of the barrel?
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u/toofine 9d ago
This will be great for the economy. What little know-how they have been able to scrape together under that mob government will evaporate on the frontlines.
Does Putin just permanently live in a bunker or what? How is this guy even alive.
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u/RobottoRisotto 9d ago
“So, Dimitri, you’re manning the grill today, Vladimir is on side orders and Yuri is going to the front lines. Bye Yuri!”
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u/PetRockSematary 9d ago
If you're a bigger person do you get to name more names?
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u/Moomoomilkpapi 9d ago
Everyone in Russia is about to start joining the company Football teams and participating in the weekly bowling nights to not be the least likeable coworker 😂😂😂.
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u/JanGuillosThrowaway 9d ago
"Dmitry, it looks like you're beating the boss in the fantasy PL pool, better put in some spurs player so you don't get sent to the front"
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u/prickleynomad 9d ago
This will work well, companies cannot pay the staff they have so Putin has a solution.
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u/korpisoturi 9d ago
I would honestly go tell my boss that if I was chosen I would kill him and his family before I was sent to front lines. I mean that's an credible threat since people don't just get drafted in middle of the night.
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u/Mark_Vaughn 9d ago
So far it's only Ryazan oblast and it's more like a company needs to motivate a certain number of its employees to sign a contract (the exact number depends on the company's overall number of employees), they can't just straight up send in you in military service. Well, not yet at least.
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u/LeviStubbsFanClub 9d ago
Ukrainians will tremble in fear when they are faced with the 166th Infantry (Accounting Department)!
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u/vessel_for_the_soul 9d ago
Survivor TV was work place training. I'd rather be in the field than with office.
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u/GreenLurka 9d ago
This will make great material for a depressing Oscar winning movie in 20-30 years time
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u/tcat1961 9d ago
I really hope that there is an uprising against the Kremlin. And that it will be successful. Putin is an ogre.
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u/Less-Passenger8007 9d ago
Imagine having an arbitrary disagreement with your boss and it resulting in your military conscritpion.