inclompetence

Absurdly-clumsy performance regarding da act of moving about on foot, such as making a horrid racket, stepping on and/or tripping over objects in your path, blundering into others, etc.

I often exhibit noticeable inclompetence, and so I diligently attend any and all of da Colliders Anonymous, Stumblers Anonymous, and Foot-Steppers Anonymous meetings dat are held within a fifty-mile radius of my home!

inclompetence by QuacksO September 2, 2026

Strategic Incompetence 

Purposely performing a task so poorly as to discourage being assigned this task again, but not poorly enough to be fired

Cube Dweller1: Dude, writing the weekly report is a sucky job; how do I get out of it?

Cube Dweller2: Just screw up some people's names and swap some people's tasks, nobody will want you to do it again

Cube Dweller1: Ahh....Strategic Incompetence....a fine idea....my inner slacker is jumping for joy!

Strategic Incompetence by TedDeadMan September 4, 2009

Selective incompetence 

Something you "can't" do because you don't want to do it. Something you can get others to do by making believe you can't do it.

When asked to do laundry they put all the white clothes in on hot and then put a brand new red sweatshirt in too. The result was all the white laundry was pink and they were banned from touching the laundry ever again...they could wash laundry but didn't want to so they applied "selective incompetence " to get out of ever being asked again.

Selective incompetence by Murphwish July 9, 2016

institutionalized incompetence 

When a dysfunctional institution teaches and embraces incompetence as though it is the pinnacle of competence because it is so embedded in its culture.

How does one truthfully explain something like the post office or the prison industrial system to a child without in some way making a reference to institutionalized incompetence?

institutionalized incompetence by Dr Bunnygirl June 21, 2020

Buffer of Incompetence 

The person that is worse at their job than you. The person that will be fired if there are layoffs.

Crap... Steven got let go; he was my buffer of incompetence. I'll have to step it up.

Buffer of Incompetence by benmo88 January 23, 2020

Institutional Incompetence 

How ever much money, time & training, large government departments and publicly run local bodies etc cannot get anything right.

For two weeks bad weather is forecast, 4 inches of snow falls, the country is ground to a halt, closed airports, railways, roads & schools, caused by institutional incompetence.

Institutional Incompetence by Elle Kaye March 22, 2011

aggressive incompetence 

A retail term used to describe stupid people in Louisiana, specifically people in New Orleans and Metairie. People whom get upset at other people for their own stupidity.

Joe ran a red light which caused a car accident and yelled at the innocent person for hitting his car. I looked to my friend and said, "see that? That is aggressive incompetence at it's finest."

aggressive incompetence by BaneCoven November 11, 2019