creative incompetence 

The shitty life hack, where someone asks you to do something and you do it so badly you are never asked to do it again.

"Creative incompetence"is defined by a paradoxical outlook that requires the incompetent person to use more energy and thought to do the task badly than to do it correctly in the first place.

Paris Hilton never liked being a DJ so, using a little creative incompetence, she designed set lists that included Norwegian mining songs and Hentai movie sound tracks. She now works incognito as a nail technician on Sunset Blvd.

creative incompetence by anonymous September 24, 2021

Controlled Incompetence 

Knowing how to correctly accomplish an undesired task and producing a sub-satisfactory result as to never be asked to perform said task again.

The Guy: My boss wants me to work on this new machine. He's always coming to me for these things.
Coworker: sounds like you could use some controlled incompetence. Just give the appearance you're busy with it and mess it up. The boss will find someone else next time and then they can be "The Guy."

Controlled Incompetence by Double Jay Dubs May 3, 2022

gross incompetence 

a moldy action

what is placed on a police officers ham a cheese sandwich? pickles... and gross incompetence

gross incompetence by TardigradeFucker69 June 18, 2022

deliberate incompetence 

Deliberate incompetence is a form of extreme couuetil occurs when a person find it to be in his or her best interests to pretend to have a low level of intelligence, or pretend to have beahvioral problems, or pretend to have inferior skills. Deliberate incompetence is also a form of harassment Christians and other religions use to target workers with superior skills. Deliberate incompetence is closely related to the drone phenomenon and religious and nationalist corruption.

I have known that man for years! He's not incompetent, he's pretending to be! This is motivated deliberate incompetence.

deliberate incompetence by NartDaFart May 10, 2023

Weaponized Incompetence 

Someone who pretends they can't do something so you'll do it for them

My coworker is the human form if weaponized Incompetence

Weaponized Incompetence by anonymous December 23, 2023

Weaponized Incompetence 

When someone does a simple task requested of them badly on purpose so they seem too incompetent to do said task, thus ensuring nothing is ever asked of them again.

Jill: "Will you do *insert simple task here*?"
Jack: "Ugh, I guess." *Does it wrong so she feels that she can't trust him to do it right*
Jill: *Sees the horrible job jack did* "Oh.. I guess I should just do it myself next time.."
Jack: "Great! Weaponized incompetence works!"
Jill: "... What..?"

Weaponized Incompetence by ExplodingStrawberries November 8, 2024

weaponized incompetence 

A term used by bad managers and by friends, family members, and romantic partners alike in circumstances where they want somebody else to do things their way but they do not want to properly communicate what their way is (or where they are happy to wax on about frivolous details but never justify why said details would actually matter to anyone else).

They will describe whoever is doing a sufficiently poor job reading their minds as incompetent, and if they suspect you are doing a poor job specifically so that they'll have to meet their own ineffable requirements (if you want something done "right", do it yourself) then they will call it "weaponized" incompetence.

In their minds the term means "feigning not being good at a task to get out of doing it" but in practice such a campaign could only ever work when there's only one person who has skin in the game for the task to be done in a certain way to begin with.

"Don't you even know how to make me a sandwich? The pickles have to go on top of the provolone, and the mustard and mayonaise should never touch. You didn't even cut off the crust, and who slices a sandwich lengthwise? It *must* be diagonal! Fine, I'll make my own damned sandwich, but I swear you do this on purpose just to avoid doing it the right way. It's weaponized incompetence! *huff*"

weaponized incompetence by Happ MacDonald April 8, 2024