Define: "Weaponized Incompetence" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Never reveal that you know Excel macros or regex. The moment you do, you become the department's permanent data janitor."
The intentional demonstration of an inability to perform a task to avoid being assigned responsibilities.
What does "Weaponized Incompetence" actually mean?
"Deliberately acting like you don't understand the new portal so a junior tech gets assigned to manage it instead."
"Managers should be trained to distinguish between a genuine need for upskilling and weaponized incompetence."
"Dave is a master of weaponized incompetence; he pretended he didn't know how to export a PDF so the PM stopped asking him for reports."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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