Hilarious Tales of Workplace Incompetency

[Newell Steamer]

Incompetence is sometimes feigned.

I am currently working with a group of people who decided to remove 2/3rds of a platform's functionality (or rather, switch it off), and have said 2/3rds handled by,.. uhm,... wait - they don't even know! And, go-live is in 10 months.

Supposedly, the parts they did switch off is being handled by our client. But, there is no way in hell our client knows they should do this - or, more importantly,.. how.

After repeated warnings, my group and I figured out it was done on purpose. So, they (the owners of my company) can go back to the client and say; "Well, you didn't sign up for this,.. so, fork over another $50M,.. and we'll take care of it,..".

During these past 6 months, leadership has been flat out ignoring us or cooking up lame excuses for why it was done this way. And, I am not talking about water cooler conversations. I am talking stacks of decks, process flows, master data/data dictionary analysis, use cases,.. EVERYTHING,.. to point out you can not launch this gimped platform,.. and, the client isn't capable of taking up the slack.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Does the guy speak in sentence fragments? If so, it's wearing off on the OP.

 

[Soundmanred]

We had a woman walk in for her final application/audition after going through the first three remotely. One of the first sections on the initial questionnaire asks specific details about smoking (do/have/quit/when/etc) of which she said she doesn't and never has. The moment she walked through the door everyone could smell it on her. She thought she could get away with it, the nerve. It's almost as bad as someone trying to convince us they don't have breast implants, there's no implants in the world that can fool us.

Maybe she thought it meant smoking poles professionally. Easy mistake.

 

[:emaN resU]

It's amazing how people who know how to effectively use their mouths (and not necessarily their brains) rise to the top. Their superpower is being able to construct a veil over people's eyes to prevent them from seeing reality. I've seen it over & over & over again. The bottom line is that management takes care of their own, so we're never going to win the war, maybe just mitigate some battles here & there.

100% true. I am reminded of the Peter principle every day at work - people get promoted until they're in a position where they are incompetent.

My boss is terrible, and I wish I could talk openly about the horrible things they've done but I'd just make trouble for myself. They falsify data and make completely inappropriate decisions they are not qualified to on a weekly basis. They've also been able to lie their way out of at least three investigations that I know of and have forced multiple people out who questioned them. Very sad.

 

[rsbennett00]

Maybe she thought it meant smoking poles professionally. Easy mistake.

That's a separate question on page 3.