not too sure "foreign worker" is familiar with the "work-to-rule" concept.... sop's are always the plan of action, so is following the atc clearance/flight plan...visual approaches, direct routings, duty time discretion, are a few casualties of a :work to rule program'....many many more are involved, but certainly a "work to rule" does not involve short-cutting safety, or disregarding sop's... and these actions are usually a waste of time anyway, and quite often only serve to keep you away from home longer, and have your roster screwed up even worse....good luck boys...