imcompetent coworkers
 

i work with this guy, he has got to be like 60, not that age makes a difference, and he is the most fucking helpless incompetent fool i have ever met. I mean he is really nice, but everything he does, he asks one of the rest of us for help...it could be anything from assembling something (which takes him like an hour....and me 20 mins) to getting a "heavy" box down (heavy = more than 40 pounds for him). It drive me nuts, i helped him assembel something one day that took us like and hour and a half (20 mins spent by having him read the 1 page directions). I could have done it in like 35 mins, but he kept tellin me to "hold on" while he re-read the directions yet again.

sorry for the rant....anyone else have similar problems with imcompetence where you work?

what exactly is the job?

Yea, been there done that...and worst of all they are
usually over you or making more than you do....

I think it is called "Peters Principal"---they have been
elevated to their highest level of incompentence...

we work at agway, which for you non northeasterners is a famr and garden store...basicaly just puttin merchandise together, loading peoples cars, takin care of warehouse, moving feed, or "slinging grain"...normal retail shit. He just doesnt take deliveries, run the register or run the forklift, but he does everything else....i do it all for the most part. But im still in high school, so im just a part timer...also, he just got hired like a month ago, i been there like a year and a half...


your stories dont have to be in the same profession tho...i just wanted to add a place to rant about your coworkers...

I don't mind if someone is geniunely trying - remember some people are able to put things together- others not.

I mind it when there is an individual who does not put forth the effort to improve.

the secret is to work for yourself and don't hire anyone...that's what I did.

i spent 20 years in the federal government; you would not BELIEVE the stupidity of the supervisors in the middle management level. all they're out for is to keep their asses in their job for their 30-year retirement...

In my company, ALL FIVE OF US gotta be pulling our weight, or the rest all feel it FAST. There's no room for a goldbricker or a whiner to hide for long.

Yup, worked for this one lady who had no people skills and any common sense. The only reason she is the general manager of the organization ... she had worked there the longest. What an accomplishment.

Just lock him in the storeroom until knock off time

I actually had to walk over to one of my co-worker's desks and show her how to press Control-Alt-Delete so she could log on to our Windows 2000 network! At least she remembered her password!

Incompetent coworkers are everywhere. The truth is most people are just lazy as fuck and can't do their jobs and the sad thing is they don't even give a shit. I carry the load where I work, and it doesn't take all that much effort. If I was the boss where I worked there would be a lot of unemployed lazy fuckers around here.

incompetence is only relative to your perceived competence.

I think your problem is a minor one. I've known the "Peter Principle" to be alive and well (incompetent gets promoted to move him out of the way).

I deal with a lot of incompetence at my job
it's a union shop so once you're in, you're in
it's really bad when the temps come in the summertime
many of them do the job better than people who have been doing it for years.
at the end of the summer the temps all get laid off

I wish we could keep some of the good ones

We deal with telephone orders and some people around here just can't get it through their heads that you don't say, "And I have your credit card on file from last year, would you like to use the same one"

Also have some people that give bad support for our product.

coworkers???? only coworkers? what about people in general? there's lots of incompetent people...even people who we pay to give services...


here's a coworkers story... today at breakfast.. we have foodservice toasters to keep the pace with all the people that want toast. This one chap puts his butter bagel into the toaster... it catches on fire. He watches the flames and is more concerned about his bagel.. which he speeds up and it comes out not toasted maybe slightly singed. He then hits his head exclaiming,"Oh! The BUTTER!!!!"

yeah... I'm about to move into an apartment building... wonderful to know that I work with a moron like this... and even worse.. could live next to one.