This strategy was recommended by the OSS as a way for people to resist fascism during WWII:

Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.

They eventually became the CIA and declassified the document which has other fun tips: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf