diff --git a/services/document-updater/.eslintrc b/services/document-updater/.eslintrc
index 1c14f50efe..a97661b15f 100644
--- a/services/document-updater/.eslintrc
+++ b/services/document-updater/.eslintrc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   "extends": [
     "eslint:recommended",
     "standard",
-    "prettier",
+    "prettier"
   ],
   "parserOptions": {
     "ecmaVersion": 2018
@@ -20,6 +20,19 @@
     "mocha": true
   },
   "rules": {
+    // TODO(das7pad): remove overrides after fixing all the violations manually (https://github.com/overleaf/issues/issues/3882#issuecomment-878999671)
+    // START of temporary overrides
+    "array-callback-return": "off",
+    "no-dupe-else-if": "off",
+    "no-var": "off",
+    "no-empty": "off",
+    "node/handle-callback-err": "off",
+    "no-loss-of-precision": "off",
+    "node/no-callback-literal": "off",
+    "node/no-path-concat": "off",
+    "prefer-regex-literals": "off",
+    // END of temporary overrides
+
     // Swap the no-unused-expressions rule with a more chai-friendly one
     "no-unused-expressions": 0,
     "chai-friendly/no-unused-expressions": "error",
diff --git a/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/model.js b/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/model.js
index 3b881c8d16..aebcd8d549 100644
--- a/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/model.js
+++ b/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/model.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable
     no-console,
     no-return-assign,
-    standard/no-callback-literal,
 */
 // TODO: This file was created by bulk-decaffeinate.
 // Fix any style issues and re-enable lint.
diff --git a/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/server/model.js b/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/server/model.js
index 7b065ea20a..a5682f71e3 100644
--- a/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/server/model.js
+++ b/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/server/model.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable
     no-console,
     no-return-assign,
-    standard/no-callback-literal,
 */
 // TODO: This file was created by bulk-decaffeinate.
 // Fix any style issues and re-enable lint.
diff --git a/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/types/model.js b/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/types/model.js
index 3b881c8d16..aebcd8d549 100644
--- a/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/types/model.js
+++ b/services/document-updater/app/js/sharejs/types/model.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable
     no-console,
     no-return-assign,
-    standard/no-callback-literal,
 */
 // TODO: This file was created by bulk-decaffeinate.
 // Fix any style issues and re-enable lint.