Oh absolutely. I don't think anyone sets out to abuse their tools, but there are always other constraints. I imagine that a lot of these wartime machinists were given a rulebook, then told to make X units per day more than was possible. The rulebook was then ignored to get the job done, at whatever cost. Drill bits were broken. Management was upset at the cost. So a passive-aggressive "guide to sabotage" was written to guilt them into somehow meeting their quotas while hopefully breaking fewer tools.