Purposely performing a task so poorly as to discourage being assigned this task again, but not poorly enough to be fired
Cube Dweller1: Dude, writing the weekly report is a sucky job; how do I get out of it?
Cube Dweller2: Just screw up some people's names and swap some people's tasks, nobody will want you to do it again
Cube Dweller1: Ahh....Strategic Incompetence....a fine idea....my inner slacker is jumping for joy!
Cube Dweller2: Just screw up some people's names and swap some people's tasks, nobody will want you to do it again
Cube Dweller1: Ahh....Strategic Incompetence....a fine idea....my inner slacker is jumping for joy!
by TedDeadMan September 4, 2009
Something you "can't" do because you don't want to do it. Something you can get others to do by making believe you can't do it.
When asked to do laundry they put all the white clothes in on hot and then put a brand new red sweatshirt in too. The result was all the white laundry was pink and they were banned from touching the laundry ever again...they could wash laundry but didn't want to so they applied "selective incompetence " to get out of ever being asked again.
by Murphwish March 25, 2016
When a dysfunctional institution teaches and embraces incompetence as though it is the pinnacle of competence because it is so embedded in its culture.
How does one truthfully explain something like the post office or the prison industrial system to a child without in some way making a reference to institutionalized incompetence?
by Dr Bunnygirl June 21, 2020
by benmo88 January 24, 2020
How ever much money, time & training, large government departments and publicly run local bodies etc cannot get anything right.
For two weeks bad weather is forecast, 4 inches of snow falls, the country is ground to a halt, closed airports, railways, roads & schools, caused by institutional incompetence.
by Elle Kaye March 7, 2011
" Your a incompetent cunt!"
by Werewj November 29, 2016
A retail term used to describe stupid people in Louisiana, specifically people in New Orleans and Metairie. People whom get upset at other people for their own stupidity.
Joe ran a red light which caused a car accident and yelled at the innocent person for hitting his car. I looked to my friend and said, "see that? That is aggressive incompetence at it's finest."
by BaneCoven November 11, 2019