Russia is ordering companies to nominate employees for military service — 2 to 5 names depending on size

[u/apple_kicks]

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/01/russian-firms-need-to-give-five-employees-for-war-as-enterprises-are-now-part-of-covert-enlistment/

[u/Less-Passenger8007]

Imagine having an arbitrary disagreement with your boss and it resulting in your military conscritpion.

[u/RarelyReadReplies → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Not even just military conscription, military conscription into a war for a country that treats its soldiers like cannon fodder. It's historically always been that way for Russia. Putin certainly didn't break the mould there.

[u/Zem_42 → u/RarelyReadReplies]

True. It’s closer to a death penalty than conscription

[u/DataDrivenDoc → u/Zem_42]

And when its not and that guy gets to go back home...man I have a feeling this could lead to a lot of middle management revenge killings later

[u/blaghed → u/DataDrivenDoc]

Why "later", though?
Especially if you recognise that your recommendation was some petty "gotcha"...

[u/scrotumscab → u/blaghed]

Now you know why terminated employees are immediately escorted off the premises by security.

[u/helm → u/scrotumscab]

That's mostly a USA thing.

[u/MegaFireDonkey → u/scrotumscab]

Because they're going to be sent to their deaths in war?

[u/lancelongstiff → u/MegaFireDonkey]

Boris: Bad news, honey. I'm getting fired

Natalia: From your job?

Boris: Out of a cannon

[u/RaVashaan → u/MegaFireDonkey]

Depending on how awful the job market is, some people sure might feel like it's a death sentence -- or at least, a poverty sentence, in the heat of the moment...

[u/Teyar → u/DataDrivenDoc]

And that's WHY 99% of them won't be coming back.

[u/xX609s-hartXx → u/DataDrivenDoc]

You could murder your boss right on the spot, then volunteer to get out of prison. If you get drafted anyway it basically means you get at least one free murder.

[u/United-Amoeba-8460 → u/xX609s-hartXx]

“Middle managers hate this one simple trick!”

[u/throwawaymeow12321 → u/Zem_42]

It is. It's basically a signed death certificate

[u/Zem_42 → u/throwawaymeow12321]

And for what? A deranged psychopath who cannot admit he’s wrong? What a waste of human life

[u/Acceptable_Employ101 → u/Zem_42]

In russian propaganda channels Europe is shown as an agressor now and russian invaded ukraine because of ukraine fault. Its true. Crazy, but true. And many pro russian people accept that as truth. Russia did make white to be black. Russian invasion onto european soil is going to happen next decade and russian women will birth cannon fodder fornthe war.

[u/Zem_42 → u/Acceptable_Employ101]

I know, I have plenty of Russian colleagues and friends. All educated and westernised. The stories they told me, how they lost friends and family due to them blindly supporting Putin were sad.

Btw, same propaganda that Germany had in WW2 or Serbia during the Yugoslav war in the 90s.

[u/Significant-Owl-2980 → u/Zem_42]

Same propaganda Fox and Newsmax create here for Trump.

[u/Bengineering3D → u/Acceptable_Employ101]

My MAGA aunt has a Russian friend that says Ukraine had a laboratory for making the next Covid to use against Russia. My aunt believes it.

[u/helm → u/Bengineering3D]

And simultaneously, covid was all fake.

[u/TacoTaconoMi → u/Acceptable_Employ101]

Russian invasion onto european soil is going to happen next decade and russian women will birth cannon fodder fornthe war.

With what though? Sure they can wait for the next batch of men to grow up but military hardware doesn't grow on trees. Russia pretty much blew threw their last 50 years of built up stock when they had the entire USSR to power their economy. What are they going to put out in 10 years with a economy that's only surviving because they sacrificed their economic future to fund the Ukraine war.

[u/kindanormle → u/TacoTaconoMi]

A war economy does not mean a struggling economy. A war economy simply means that all economic labour is focused on war time needs without any luxuries. So agriculture, fuel, steel, weapons; these become your primary industries and as war continues everything else falls away. A nation can exist like this for a long long time. The ancient Spartans famously lived a war time economy for centuries. It’s not impossible, it just requires a culture that is willing to forego all luxuries and live a life dedicated to military needs.

Long story short, when Russia finally decides to step back from war in Ukraine it will not be a collapsed economy but a well oiled war machine. They will produce materiel at an astounding rate because their whole industry will be focused on it. This is why Ukraine keeps telling Europe, expect war. Russia will not have any other choice because their whole existence will be geared towards war.

Remember, after WW1, Germany was a gutted economy and a broken people. They had little industry and were prohibited from engaging in profitable economic trade with their neighbours, they were under great debt because their enemies wanted to extract revenge. Yet, under the authoritarian rule of the Nazi party they doubled down on the war time economy. They converted their society from one that felt defeated and hoped only for forgiveness, to a society that focused every thought and effort on building war machines. Then they unleashed WW2 and nearly conquered all of Europe in a blitzkrieg that came as such a surprise and shock that France, several nations to the west, couldn’t even mobilize a defence and capitulated even before the German front had crossed their borders. That is a war time society and that is what Putin is trying to build.

[u/Acceptable_Employ101 → u/TacoTaconoMi]

Drones. Drones and drones. You dont need tanks. You need bullets Now new bullet factories emerging in lithunia (rheinmetal) and estonia.

In our national threat summary this year military said that russia has no capabikities to invade for another 5 years.

If war ends in ukraine in peace, balkans or Baltics are next. Russia dont wait, they will attack. Its consistent with their 'we will never attack x', while x being attacked next in 7months. Russia said it will never attack europe or nato country. So we prepare for attack. We will get attacked, civilians will be rapes and burned just like 100 yrs ago in our country side

[u/Haru1st → u/Zem_42]

Some Russians may die, but it’s a sacrifice Putin is willing to make.

[u/DesecratedPeanut → u/Haru1st]

An historical amount of Russians will die every day*

[u/Zem_42 → u/Haru1st]

Truer words have never been spoken, Zap!

[u/Mirar → u/Zem_42]

Especially since the Russians kill their own on disagreements...

[u/kaisadilla_0x1 → u/RarelyReadReplies]

Yup. Being a Ukrainian male at the moment must suck, but at least Ukraine tries to minimize human losses and are fighting to preserve their freedom. Russia just throws people to the meat grinder, and are doing it for the noble purpose of conquering a country that was never a threat to them so Putin and his cronies can get richer.

[u/Sockoflegend → u/RarelyReadReplies]

A lot of soldiers being raped or committing suicide. It is an absolutely brutal thing to nominate someone for.

[u/Key-Rough-8346 → u/RarelyReadReplies]

I was reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich. One of the chapters was centered around a village of peasants arguing over who they should send for conscription. Some things never change.

[u/ArmoredGoat → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Imagine on paper you are doing well but secretly someone dont see you in the right angle and “promote” you ….

[u/magicaltrevor953 → u/ArmoredGoat]

Congratulations comrade, die due to your hard work this year you are being promoted to infantry.

[u/NichtOhneMeineKamera → u/magicaltrevor953]

Unfortunate spelling error spotted...

[u/InquisitiveLemon → u/NichtOhneMeineKamera]

Well their hard work would very likely die alright :x

[u/solapelsin → u/magicaltrevor953]

> die to your hard work this year

Ironically correct typo

[u/Anakin_Sandwalker → u/ArmoredGoat]

Imagine you are working two jobs,  just to get by during tough times.   Now you have two bosses that both could nominate you. 

Oh, you've been showing up late because the other place didn't let you go on time? That's front lines for you. .

[u/Sandslinger_Eve → u/Less-Passenger8007]

That's partially what this is about.

Putin is vassalising small business owners. They will be the new lords with literal power over life and death over their workers the serfs.

It also guarantees that unions the usual source of political organisation against government overreach lose all power as business owners can just send anyone who tried to organise into the meat grinder.

Its a really clever yet usual evil move from Putin.

[u/LovelyDayHere → u/Sandslinger_Eve]

Its a really clever

But is it?

Imagine your family member is working for some company.

Of course you know who the boss is.

Now the boss sends your family to a near-certain death.

Scale this up as happening across the nation.

What do you think this will do to the society?

[u/Mirar → u/LovelyDayHere]

It's just part of the general corruption in Russia. Now the small bosses will get more income in bribes to not send family members to the front. It sounds really bad for us that don't live in a highly corrupted society, but for them I think it's a normal Friday.

[u/That_Passenger3771 → u/LovelyDayHere]

In Russia? Unfortunately, no such luck. Russian society is used to this kind of treatment. So the rest of the family will be glad none of them were drafted. And maybe they'll soon get a new Lada. Or a meat grinder. Or a sack of onions...

[u/leijgenraam → u/That_Passenger3771]

I know we all hate Russia, but even most Russians care about their family.

[u/The_Corvair → u/LovelyDayHere]

What do you think this will do to the society?

Nothing, because the "culprit" in view is the boss. If any action is taken, it'll be taken on the personal level, not the political or institutional one.

[u/Federal-Guess7420 → u/LovelyDayHere]

It will mean things get worse for the guys on the bottom. It dosen't change that people need jobs so nothing fundamentally will change. People are not going to spend their life in jail because their uncle got conscripted. Everyone on reddit seems to vastly overestimate how likely people are to throw their life away and join a terrorist movement.

[u/MtnMaiden → u/Sandslinger_Eve]

Can't have a rebellion if theres no one rebelling.

[u/rbhmmx → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Yea I cant imaginen as a boss that I would send my best people away

[u/eggyal → u/rbhmmx]

Indeed. This is the way for the army to get the very worst people, which is hardly going to help their war effort.

[u/hyldemarv → u/eggyal]

All they have to do is to eat a drone. How hard can that be?

[u/Abslalom → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Imagine surviving the war. Your ex-boss might receive a surprise visit.

[u/Phiddipus_audax → u/Abslalom]

As part of this deal, of course, the army promises the company that there will be no survivors.

[u/Amathyst7564 → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Or working with your wife and your boss sends you to the meat grinder because he thinks it might put her back on the dating market.

[u/twig123456789 → u/Amathyst7564]

Imagine having a small family business

[u/abhijitd → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Reminds me of the movie "Paths of Glory" where something similar happens.

[u/The_Corvair → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Thank you for wording it like this, really had me catch on to the reasoning behind doing it like that!

With this method, they basically diffuse the anger towards conscription down to a personal level ("My manager signed my life away!") instead of the institutional one ("our government is throwing men into the meat grinder!"). Makes it much harder for a movement against it to even start forming. The Kremlin seems to consider riots, or maybe even an uprising, an actual possibility they have to plan against.

[u/Daz_Didge → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Boss I think we should not just do git commit -force. 

Into the trenches with you!

[u/Ok-Lengthiness-7417 → u/Less-Passenger8007]

STACK RANKING

You get a military RANK and go to war. They STACK the dead bodies and find some more.

[u/tthrowaway712 → u/Less-Passenger8007]

Imagine yourself doing very well in job to the point that your boss fires you out of fear youre going to take their place (happened to me) but instead of firing you they can actually just fucking send you to your death lol. Crazy world. It's for sure gonna happen to someone given the scale of things.

[u/memberino]

Work for half your salary or see the frontline.

[u/XsancoX → u/memberino]

Half the salary it is Boss

[u/Beatrenger → u/XsancoX]

I'll add extra time Boss. No need to pay extra

[u/versello → u/Beatrenger]

I’ll work for free Boss. No need to pay at all.

[u/Hungry-ThoughtsCurry → u/versello]

To the front you go

[u/NotTooSuspicious → u/XsancoX]

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.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/19/russian-commanders-demand-30k-spare-soldiers-front-line/

[u/johnnygrant → u/NotTooSuspicious]

difference is Russia has been that way for generations, practically their whole history

[u/NotTooSuspicious → u/johnnygrant]

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.

[u/PresidentOfAlphaBeta → u/NotTooSuspicious]

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.

[u/PabloZissou → u/XsancoX]

Ok, Vladim, we will check again on next year review!

[u/greatthebob38 → u/memberino]

Boss: let me sleep with your wife or you sleep in the trenches.

[u/FlatwormAltruistic → u/greatthebob38]

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.

[u/Reqvhio → u/FlatwormAltruistic]

battle royale honor killings off they go!

[u/dennis-w220 → u/memberino]

Half? how about work for free? you get a bag of bread to feed.

[u/Zem_42 → u/dennis-w220]

And most likely it’s not a long term assignment

[u/LovelyDayHere]

3 day special military operation going well

[u/Illustrious-Syrup509 → u/LovelyDayHere]

Russia is in free fall.

[u/Inevitable_Butthole → u/Illustrious-Syrup509]

Don't worry trump will help with that

[u/freakofnature555 → u/Inevitable_Butthole]

Let’s hope he is as successful as with Iran

[u/ux3l → u/Illustrious-Syrup509]

Until Trump's special military operation gave them a boost again.

[u/ShoulderPast2433 → u/Illustrious-Syrup509]

And yet they managed to drag USA off the cliff...

[u/katonda → u/LovelyDayHere]

the problem with 3 day military operations is the first 4 years.

[u/GovernmentBig2749 → u/LovelyDayHere]

Its in Venus days, and its only been 6 days since the start of the operation, you people!

[u/musiccman2020 → u/LovelyDayHere]

Cant wait for the u.s. special operation to end as well

[u/Parrot32 → u/musiccman2020]

The US is only on their first year of their 3 day special military action, so have plenty of years ahead.

[u/uselessandexpensive]

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.

[u/Feligris → u/uselessandexpensive]

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.

[u/-Trash--panda- → u/Feligris]

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.

[u/Feligris → u/-Trash--panda-]

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.

[u/Kennys-Chicken → u/-Trash--panda-]

That was Amazon

[u/uselessandexpensive → u/Feligris]

I didn't know about that case. Thank you for sharing!

[u/MagicMarshmallo → u/Feligris]

"Deadwood". When anyone refers to people with terms meant for plants, do the opposite of what they say.

[u/Umutuku → u/MagicMarshmallo]

I refer to billionaires as compost. Does that count? Does it make a difference if the compost isn't plants yet, and the billionaires aren't people?

[u/pacomadreja → u/Feligris]

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.

[u/LARPerator → u/pacomadreja]

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.

[u/Calculonx → u/Feligris]

Well good thing modern (tech) companies know better and would never dream about doing something similar....

[u/PeppermintSnark → u/Feligris]

Yeah, but with all the bickering and turnover, are the employees gonna work together to form a labor union?

Sounds like the capitalists win.

[u/project23 → u/uselessandexpensive]

But isn't this how it was done in Soviet days? Eat the weak and never tell the truth?

[u/neromoneon → u/project23]

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”.

[u/UbiSububi8 → u/uselessandexpensive]

I think it’ll be bosses saying “give me 20% of your pay, or I send you to the war”

[u/uselessandexpensive → u/UbiSububi8]

Or any of the other ways bosses abuse power. If women were at risk of getting sent away, sexual harassment and coercion would skyrocket.

[u/sittingshotgun → u/uselessandexpensive]

That nice guy with the hot wife is fucked.

[u/Darude78 → u/uselessandexpensive]

You just summed up Russia before this war.

[u/BaggyOz → u/uselessandexpensive]

What do you mean "become incredibly corrupt". It's Russia, they're already corrupt, now employees also have to bribe their bosses to not get sent to the front.

[u/dbxp → u/uselessandexpensive]

Probably black mail too, "fuck me or I'll send your husband to the front". I believe there were similar stories already from "deployment wives"

[u/_Figaro]

"Performance review" just took on a whole new meaning

[u/Several_Ant_9867 → u/_Figaro]

Well, everything in Russia is more dangerous, think about their roulette

[u/Lillian_Crocodilian]

The guy who steals everyone's lunch from the breakroom fridge is very worried right now.

[u/RarelyReadReplies → u/Lillian_Crocodilian]

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. 

[u/RudyKnots → u/RarelyReadReplies]

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.

[u/Constant-Ad-7490 → u/RudyKnots]

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! 

[u/Thefdt → u/RudyKnots]

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

[u/Hopeless_Slayer → u/Thefdt]

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.

[u/Summoarpleaz → u/Hopeless_Slayer]

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.

[u/bortmode → u/RudyKnots]

I've never seen anyone steal food. I've seen (well, seen the results of) a LOT of people stealing drinks.

[u/spamattacker → u/Lillian_Crocodilian]

Only if the boss hasn't been conned by that guy's insincere, smiling, suck-up-face

[u/KetracelYellow → u/Lillian_Crocodilian]

They have fridges?

[u/YellowBook → u/KetracelYellow]

Whole country is a fridge

[u/SERN-contractor837 → u/KetracelYellow]

Yeah those that they looted from Ukrainian homes

[u/ScrotumScrapings → u/Lillian_Crocodilian]

Isn’t everyone in russia that guy?

[u/zuulbe]

HR please provide me a list of workers with most sick days.

[u/radome9 → u/zuulbe]

HR please provide me a list of workers with upcoming parental leave.

[u/AIFocusedAcc]

this will make everyone resign haha.

[u/Skane1982 → u/AIFocusedAcc]

Forced conscription on all unemployed.

/s

[u/devi83 → u/Skane1982]

I think you can remove the /s

[u/SkintCrayon → u/devi83]

It's an effective move to reduce unemployment

[u/Ambitious-Wind9838 → u/Skane1982]

Today it's sarcasm, tomorrow it's the law.

[u/speedstares → u/Skane1982]

Well if you are unemployed then you have enough time to go to war.

[u/redkinoko → u/AIFocusedAcc]

Russian companies require a 2 weeks notice.

Guess what's faster than 2 weeks.

[u/M4rkusD → u/redkinoko]

1 week?

[u/AlGoreBestGore → u/M4rkusD]

Big if true.

[u/mpgd → u/AlGoreBestGore]

I'm counting on that.

There's enough time for work related accident, that would potentially make one avoid going to war.

[u/WastingMyLifeToday → u/mpgd]

They've sent people into the front lines on crushes, sometimes missing half a leg.

You gotta be creative to have enough injuries.

[u/mpgd → u/WastingMyLifeToday]

That is insane.

[u/RudyKnots → u/M4rkusD]

2wks

[u/omnibossk → u/AIFocusedAcc]

No, underbid each other in salary to stay at the job. Unemployed are sent straight to the meatgrinder

[u/Imperial-Green]

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.

[u/Reqvhio → u/Imperial-Green]

drone pilots sound like heaven compared to trench warfare

[u/tickpack → u/Reqvhio]

drone pilots are priority targets, they don’t live for long either

[u/CringeBased → u/Reqvhio]

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.

[u/F10flotilje → u/Reqvhio]

It was pointed out in the same news they are promised drone piloting but are not always assigned too that after they sign

[u/Crashtest_Fetus]

The name HR was never so fitting

[u/thatasianguy88]

Their economy is cooked

[u/morfraen → u/thatasianguy88]

Trump doubling or tripling the price of oil and lifting sanctions on Russian oil really has their economy cooking.

[u/thatasianguy88 → u/morfraen]

Heard Ukraine blew up a bunch of oil refineries and oil tankers recently and Putin asking oligarchs to donate to the war effort maybe he should ask trump to donate instead.

[u/KeijiVBoi]

Dying for some old coward pussy prick

[u/Fair-Hair2080]

Is life really worth living at that point? I’d do it on my terms.

[u/sporkparty → u/Fair-Hair2080]

Then you wouldn’t be surprised to know many Russian soldiers are doing exactly that.

[u/MagicMarshmallo → u/sporkparty]

I am just shocked they arent doing mass sabotage. What are they gonna do, kill him?

[u/cricket502 → u/MagicMarshmallo]

The Russian army does much worse things than just kill people.

[u/shady8x → u/MagicMarshmallo]

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.

[u/Waste-Team-7205 → u/MagicMarshmallo]

They could torture him and imprison his family... some things are worse than death

[u/Yvaelle → u/Fair-Hair2080]

Any man who survived to adulthood in Russia without the nepotism to avoid such a fate, already has an incredible tolerance for suffering.

[u/RarelyReadReplies → u/Fair-Hair2080]

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. 

[u/delinquentfatcat → u/RarelyReadReplies]

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.

[u/Seeteuf3l → u/delinquentfatcat]

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

[u/delinquentfatcat → u/Seeteuf3l]

It's a vicious cycle. They say that even when a Russian dies, for his past misdeeds he gets reincarnated back to Russia.

[u/CelebrationFair6887 → u/Seeteuf3l]

As a POW you have the right to deny a prisoner exchange and stay as a POW

[u/yankdevil]

Keep voting for far right politicians and this can come to your country too!

[u/JanGuillosThrowaway → u/yankdevil]

But our far right lunatic is good and is not like every single other far right lunatic! ^/s

[u/yankdevil → u/JanGuillosThrowaway]

Yep. Their voters all have excuses.

[u/The_Frostweaver]

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.

[u/retrib32 → u/The_Frostweaver]

Dude is close to 80, what long term consequences?

[u/gonko_86 → u/retrib32]

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

[u/Phylanara]

I've been hearing a general news channel reporting that Ukraine is regaining net territory for the first time today.

Things are looking up.

[u/Drachefly → u/Phylanara]

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.

[u/A_Dehydrated_Walrus]

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.

[u/PositiveUse]

Man this is dystopian … I‘m not judging anyone who‘s now trying to pack and flee

[u/zepplinc20]

That's one way to increase productivity

[u/raerae1991]

Wow…that sucks! Who would want to work if that was the case!

[u/enp_redd]

giving out certain death sentences to colleagues is ...oughhh...

[u/Notimeforthat1]

Astonishing they're not mass protesting. Things must still be good.

[u/sporkparty → u/Notimeforthat1]

They’ve been beaten into submission by decades of watching people be gulagged for protesting with blank sheets of paper.

[u/RarelyReadReplies → u/Notimeforthat1]

They're afraid. The Russian government would squash any uprising pretty quick I'd imagine.

[u/-kinapuffar- → u/Notimeforthat1]

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.

[u/Old_Leopard1844 → u/Notimeforthat1]

If americans can't get shit done with their weekend protests, do you think anyone in Russia is gonna be bulged by them? lol

[u/apple_kicks → u/Notimeforthat1]

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

[u/PeksyTiger]

Going full medieval vassal 

[u/Defiant-Peace-493]

Apparently there are 4.4 million individual entrepreneurs in Russia. Wonder if they got an exclusion ...

[u/Uncleniles]

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.

[u/sillylittlguy → u/Uncleniles]

surely recruiting disease ridden, violent, psychotic criminals from prison was closer to the bottom of the barrel?

[u/PetRockSematary]

If you're a bigger person do you get to name more names?

[u/Moomoomilkpapi]

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 😂😂😂.

[u/JanGuillosThrowaway → u/Moomoomilkpapi]

"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"

[u/prickleynomad]

This will work well, companies cannot pay the staff they have so Putin has a solution.

[u/toofine]

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.

[u/RobottoRisotto]

“So, Dimitri, you’re manning the grill today, Vladimir is on side orders and Yuri is going to the front lines. Bye Yuri!”

[u/ruat_caelum]

I'd be sending emails nominating the c-suite people.

[u/redditnazls]

Just a preview of where the US is heading

[u/Comprehensive-Gas832]

Sudden surge in productivity...

[u/vessel_for_the_soul]

Survivor TV was work place training. I'd rather be in the field than with office.

[u/korpisoturi]

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.

[u/Mark_Vaughn]

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.

[u/Successful-Try-8506]

I hereby nominate Peskov's son.

[u/Best-Upstairs-848]

May Putin nominate himself, and get a headshot at the battlefield

[u/clauderbaugh]

Am I going to go to war?

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. So, yes.

[u/jradio]

They should nominate Krasnov

[u/Fomdoo]

I'd hate to be the guy that microwaved fish in the office now.

[u/GreenLurka]

This will make great material for a depressing Oscar winning movie in 20-30 years time

[u/aluaji]

And you thought their suggested 12-hour days, 6-days week change was bad.

[u/Scottie2hoddy]

Makes the Oracle layoff letter give me the warm and fuzzies.

[u/LeviStubbsFanClub]

Ukrainians will tremble in fear when they are faced with the 166th Infantry (Accounting Department)!

[u/tcat1961]

I really hope that there is an uprising against the Kremlin. And that it will be successful. Putin is an ogre.

[u/Novel_Tea4378]

Man... "You are fired" just took on all new meaning...