The Art of Showing Pure Incompetence at an Unwanted Task

[robby]

Strategic incompetence isn't about having a strategy that fails, but a failure that succeeds. It almost always works to deflect work one doesn't want to do -- without ever having to admit it. For junior staffers, it's a way of attaining power through powerlessness. For managers, it can juice their status by pretending to be incapable of lowly tasks.

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work...-unwanted-task

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

But of course everyone despises the lazy, manipulative, whiney, "superior," strategically incompetent idiot.