FNQ Tech, you are right about not wanting to take action unless the gain outweighs the loss, but surely you must have heard this saying hundreds of times: 'If we worked to the procedures & manuals we would never get an aircraft out of the hangar'. Iv'e had that forced down my throat every time someone is trying to coax me to hurry the job along. So, all we have to do, is exactly what our company procedures demand, and our objective will be achieved. The added bonus is that we will be certifying a better standard of work, and possibly we will be command more respect from our managers, rather than at present, where some of us can be 'bought'with a promise of job & away and similar carrots designed to speed up the job by inducing a lowering of standards. Incredibly the term work to rule should be N/A to an industry so heavily reliant on compliance with procedures & manuals, but when this option was suggested to our union, the response was...'no chance, most people would not know what to do'. As loads of mechanics have just had procedural training to obtain LMA qualifications to beat the JAR 66 June deadline for the free-with-a-box-of- cornflakes A licence offer, now must surely be the best time to try this approach, before they all forget what they've been taught!