ICBN Business Blast

Incompetence in the Workplace

Anyone who is a fan of the Dilbert cartoons no doubt finds them amusing because much of it is true.

But is it really like that?

No, of course it isn't.

Sure, the characters in the Dilbert cartoons are lazy and devious, but they also have a level of predictable competence or incompetence.

What makes the real workplace different is that many of the middle managers have levels of competence that fluctuate wildly on the same damn day.

Someone can be wise, caring and efficient in the morning and yet in the afternoon act like a complete bozo.

Its this unpredicatability that makes most of our lives hell - I am happy to work with a complete fuckwit as long as he or she is a fuckwit in a predictable manner.

I don't require competence, just predicability.