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..?"
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..?"
by ExplodingStrawberries November 09, 2024
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 09, 2024
The Bayview Police
(If you get this please be my friend
If not, READ ONE OF US IS LYING, ONE OF US IS NEXT, AND ONE OF US IS BACK)
(If you get this please be my friend
If not, READ ONE OF US IS LYING, ONE OF US IS NEXT, AND ONE OF US IS BACK)
1: "’He's not even the worst one. If you look up incompetent in the dictionary, I'm pretty sure it's just a picture of the Bayview Police,’ Maeve says, aiming one last dirty look in Officer Budapest's direction“
by hp.thg.divergent.pjo.hoo.oouil March 31, 2024
The Google home mini is incompetent comparef to the assistant on my phone.... Google you are incompetent
by Robin Frankly smitten December 16, 2018
Average Division Player: man I hate this game, made by absolute incompetent game devs
Other Average Division Player: oh! You must be talking about Ubisoft and their incompetence during the downtimes of their many titles! (Specifically Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 on Dec 5th 2023)
Other Average Division Player: oh! You must be talking about Ubisoft and their incompetence during the downtimes of their many titles! (Specifically Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 on Dec 5th 2023)
by Jawbøne December 05, 2023