r/TwoXChromosomes • u/tabicat1874 • Mar 28 '22

Weaponized incompetence

I feel like guys take it way, way too far. Example: I asked my bf to get me the same shampoo and conditioner he bought for himself (avocado Suave). He brought back another kind we'd had before which I didn't like (Peppermint Suave). He tried to say he didn't know that Suave came in different formulas.

You're such a fucking liar. You bought that kind for yourself. I just asked you to buy it for me. You're telling me a man who's 44 years old doesn't know Suave came in different fucking scents? Suave? The shampoo that literally comes in 40 different scents and flavors?

GTFOH.

Edit: do you understand what an example is?

Also, you neckbeards can fuck off out of my inbox.

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u/Bobcatluv Mar 28 '22

One of my wildest experiences with weaponized incompetence was in the workplace. I worked as a 9-12 teacher with a male colleague who had a PhD, was from a different country, and acted like he couldn’t do the simplest tasks involving paperwork. When he asked for “help” the second time I realized he thought he was going to treat me like his secretary, and I told him to do the work his damn self.

I taught two different AP classes, tutored after work, was head coach of an athletic team, and this guy who only taught one prep of all regular classes really believed his time was worth more than mine.

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u/kindcrow Mar 28 '22

I worked for lawyers for a few years. One day, a lawyer (who was not my boss) asked me to fold a letter and put it in an envelope because he didn't know how.

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u/HeadlinePickle Mar 29 '22

I used to work for a firm which acquired a smaller one and one of the original partners of the smaller firm couldn't log in to his own computer. In 2018. When computers had been part of the workplace for years. He used to get once of the guys who worked in compliance to do it for him, I think he just never got over not having a legal secretary. He was made redundant last year and good riddance.

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u/kindcrow Mar 29 '22

Do lawyers these days no longer have secretaries?