incompetance
incompetance by george085 March 10, 2010
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Priveleged incompetance
Betsy DeVos has no experience as an education administrator but she has a ton of money for vote buying and so her priveleged incompetance got her the job.
Priveleged incompetance by Lizzy Mac February 8, 2017
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!
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
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
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A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.
A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
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