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*"
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Something so beyond stupid that you do, and you don't even understand you've made a complete fool of yourself.
Hang on. I forgot to tell you there's another step beyond incompetently stupid. It's called beytarded.
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Someone who is bad at what they do, someone who really doesn't know what they're talking about, but they do it in a way that seems outwardly proffessional.
Adjective form: proffessionally-incompetent
Adjective form: proffessionally-incompetent
It Doug has so much professional-incompetence, he posts his own drivers-ed tutorials online, but he doesn't even know how to drive.
Sarah is professionally-incompetent, because she really does look like she knows what she is talking about, but the pros mock her, because to an outsider she looks like she can talk the talk AND walk the walk, but her catwalk is not a real catwalk; she would hurt herself on a real catwalk.
Sarah is professionally-incompetent, because she really does look like she knows what she is talking about, but the pros mock her, because to an outsider she looks like she can talk the talk AND walk the walk, but her catwalk is not a real catwalk; she would hurt herself on a real catwalk.
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