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.
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He is just a funnekotter.
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Ellilta's got her shit together but she's been watching Game of Thrones everyday for the past month. She's a functional nerd.
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Get the Funiture mug.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.
*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.”
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