Tired Of Babysitting Grown Adults: 30 Acts Of Weaponized Incompetence Women Have Endured

My ex. Pretended not to know the vacuum isn't vacuuming when I told him to vacuum his dog's hair. He had a PhD.

My current husband cannot fold clothing and put it away. He can wash it. But it either stays on the top of the dryer in a wad, or on the wool rug in the living room gathering lint.

I have shown him (multiple times) how to fold towels to fit in the cabinet, tee shirts so they don’t wrinkle, and everything else. He can’t do it.

Whatever.

He flew a spy jet around the coast of Russia, and was a commercial airline captain, but he cannot fold clothing.

Sigh.

That guy that stopped for at a drive through coffee while his wife was in the car about to give birth to their baby.

My brother has a high IQ, went to mechanic school, started his own business, sells solar, grows his own pot plants, goes on hikes in the mountains solo, obtained a gun license, and made smart investments in Tesla years ago.

However, he acts incompetent so my mom makes his doctors appointments for him and brings him to the appointments. She also picks up any medications or toiletry products he needs from CVS for him. My dad does all of his laundry and puts it away, does all of his dishes, takes all of his trash out, and pays for all of his bills. When my brother has a problem with his car, my dad makes an appointment with a mechanic, brings my brother’s car in for him, and then takes an Uber back.

My brother is the smartest person I know, and yet, my parents treat him like he’s an incompetent child.

The IT one above (which was more just incompetence than weaponized incompetence) reminded me of an IT guy at work. I called IT at my large federal agency, because the printer wouldn't work. After an hour I get a notice that the ticket (sort of like a work request) was closed. Not because the printer had been fixed, but because he claimed he couldn't find my office. You know, my office. The one in the corner, where I oversee the rest of the staff on two floors.

I have lots from my first husband, but I prefer not to think of those.

In IT I see this ALL.THE.TIME

But I got one story that's easily the worst

In my office building there's this guy, we'll just call him..."Dan" for now

Dan thinks he can fix everything, despite not having qualifications for the things he claims he can fix, he'll take on tasks that are WAAAAAAY above his head and even management tells him "Hey, don't try fixing that, you have no idea what you're doing" But he ignores them anyways because he thinks he's so awesome

He seems to become FUMING whenever I'm asked to do something over him and always followed me to a task despite me telling him to leave me alone

I was doing routine server blade maintenance for a network in the building, extremely easy job and to put it simply you flick a switch, take a giant server blade out of what looks like a bookshelf, put it back in, turn the switch back on and that's it

He follows me into the server room and starts TAKING THE BLADES OUT WITHOUT TURNING THEM OFF FIRST, the blades started literally SPARKING, and I started to freak out and tell him to stop because what he's doing could literally destroy the server, it was the equivalent of pulling the plug on something high voltage that's running, and when it's hardware that's worth literal millions, you don't want to f**k around with it like that

He then starts laughing his a*s off saying I'm freaking out for no reason and he knows what he's doing, I ended up going right to management and reporting him, the whole thing was caught on camera and he got in serious trouble for nearly damaging company equipment

Instead of firing him they put him on a completely different lower level team with a lower pay, he sent me a looooooooong message using the company email system about how I'm a horrible person for reporting him and how I should die and blah blah blah

For whatever stupid reason he thought he wouldn't be caught despite using the COMPANY EMAIL SYSTEM to send me this

So he got caught and got in MORE trouble, I haven't seen him in months, assuming they let him go.

Wherever you are "Dan" I hope your life sucks.

OMG. My ex had an extra excuse; he's left-handed. Couldn't load a dishwasher because it was on the "wrong" side of the sink. The washer was on the 'wrong' side of the dryer, so obviously, he couldn't do laundry. Couldn't mow because, yes, the pull cord was on the wrong side.

He also couldn't empty the dishwasher or put away laundry because he didn't know where anything went. I know there's more, but I've tried to forget the majority of his BS.

My boyfriend told me I was better at putting the flea and tick meds on our dog, it’s simply just squirting the eye dropper type packaging between her shoulders, and she’s good about it. Same with bath time, he just doesn’t like to do it and says in “better at it”.

My current coworker. How many times can you say “maybe someday” to learning something new before it just becomes a no? It’s making a PDF, not rocket science. I have made her instructions with pictures and she still refuses to do anything more than email on the computer and even that takes her over 30 min/email.

She also turns every task into an hour long project no matter what it is and goes completely unchecked by HR or our boss. I’d almost be impressed if it wasn’t so irritating and draining to work with.

Third date, after taking his virginity (27M), he asked me to get him an Uber home on MY PHONE because he didn’t know how. I told him to wait outside my house for his Uber and I never called an Uber.