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.
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*"
by Happ MacDonald April 8, 2024
Get the weaponized incompetencemug. Fucking cancer, it's like if someone asked me what cancer was i would litterally just show them season 3 of Lethal weapons
by Lethal weapons season 3 HATER June 1, 2020
Get the Lethal weapons season 3mug. by anonymous December 23, 2023
Get the Weaponized Incompetencemug. White arm aka cold weapon. Is a weapon that does not use fire or explosions (such as an act of combustion) Fists, elbows, knee, a knife, swords, club an axe etc;
Man Devin got into it with two guys at the club last night and laid them both out. mans a “cold weapon”
by Sketchy at best July 22, 2022
Get the Cold weaponmug. Something your dad accuses you of when he has to go get off his ass and do something for once in his goddamn life that someone else is not good at
Person 1: Can you make noodles? Last time I tried I burned myself.
Person 2: Goddman. Weaponized Incompetence
Person 1: ok bud
Person 2: Goddman. Weaponized Incompetence
Person 1: ok bud
by raccoonthemobboss May 9, 2024
Get the Weaponized incompetencemug. We were having a good roll in the sheets, then I came in from the flank and hit her hard with the flesh weapon... It was great!
by Judd B. Brown December 21, 2008
Get the flesh weaponmug. by Tiger612 September 15, 2023
Get the Academic Weaponmug.