The ability to maintain a façade of competence, the surface of which, once penetrated, reveals the individual actually has little to no understanding of the tasks in which they have been placed in control of. This type of employee is of particular concern as their incompetence may not be discovered until they have left the organization.

John excelled at functional incompetence because he seemed to know what he was doing until an audit showed he fabricated all his reports.

functional incompetence by Tamara101972 September 19, 2016

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functional nerd

A type of nerd that isn't easily identified. people only realize they are nerds after prolonged exposure to them.

Ellilta's got her shit together but she's been watching Game of Thrones everyday for the past month. She's a functional nerd.

functional nerd by jst_money March 6, 2017

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Functional Poor

This word defines a certain catergory of people*, who can afford to go to school abroad and go on vacation every year, but are poor.

*Not to be mistaken for rich or working-class.

“Oh Yusuf? Yea, he goes to school abroad and has a vacation every year, but don’t worry, he’s functional poor.”

Functional Poor by assstrroo October 5, 2018

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Functionally lazy

Someone who is not actually lazy, but someone who never empties the bin, never refills the toilet roll , never buys the milk, never cleans the van, never does day to day functional tasks

That sales guy in the office gets great sales figures, but there is no tea bags again, he is so functionally lazy

Functionally lazy by Col Decker November 16, 2021

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