“Never Done A Darn Thing”: 64 People Who Tried To Use Weaponized Incompetence To Get Their Way

My Mum just never learned to clean fish, just too silly. Dad always cleaned everything he caught, so…

My social worker ex-girlfriend, with a whole master’s degree under her belt that includes loads of psychology education, telling me communication and consistency were “too hard” and that she was “sick of trying to heal and grow.”

In reality, she was a counter-transference nightmare that was emotionally, potentially physically, cheating on me with no less than two of her clients.

One of my coworkers when I worked at the library botched a children’s reading so so bad that parents complained. He smiled and told another co-worker that they won’t ask him to do it again.

Me pretending to not know how to use the dishwasher.

My ex wife doesn’t know how to do anything besides study because “nobody ever taught her and she didn’t think she would live this long”. So she continues to do nothing.

I don’t know where all the tupperware goes so I leave it for my wife to put away.

A guy in our antenatal class proudly told us guys over beers that when he was asked to help change his child's diapers he had accidentally on purpose dropped it with the dirty side down on the carpet. He felt that he would never be asked to do it again.

Worked on a movie, producer mentioned having to make coffee early on in his career and made engine oil type coffee. Was never asked to make coffee again.

The classic move of shrinking two nice sweaters on purpose, giving an overly dramatic apology, and saying “I guess I’m just banned from laundry forever.” Dude lived like a king for three years off that one move.

Oh you mean after my groom's father's friend whispered in his ear at our wedding "let me tell you a little secret, just do every badly and act like you can't do it right and she will do it"- that pretty much summed up everything that happened after that.

My boss will decide he needs to mail things. He will ask me to do it because he is "incapable" of folding paper into a trifold.

My ex used to claim they couldn't figure out how to load the dishwasher properly every single time, even after I showed them twice. It always ended with me doing it instead, which somehow became the routine without any real discussion about it.

Students saying they can’t even attempt to do their work in class because they don’t have a pencil when there are free pencils right there.

My ex let their car sit broken in our driveway for 4.5 years. They always said it was on me to fix it- but I had metastic cancer and worked full time. Suddenly, when I left them they were able to fix their car: for just 750$.

One of our maids pretends she doesn't understand English, to make sure she's never asked for anything.

My boss. He is lazy, checked out, burnt out, old, and has no professionalism left. The young guys do everything, including the most difficult jobs. Yet the guy still gets paid more than everyone while watching YouTube videos all day. He will retire at the end of this year, so I guess everyone is just letting him be for the remainder of the year.

coworker "couldn't figure out" the dishwasher for three years and somehow always gets out of loading it.

I teach so I see this just about every single day, but the most common one and egregious in my opinion is the inability to keep track a sheet of paper for even a class period, Much less a day. Students shove it in their backpacks or leave it on the floor, and then act like it’s not their fault they don’t have their assignment to turn in.

Yes my time to share, I was cleaning up a spill and I asked my then bf to please get me the mop pad that attaches to the head of the mop, he tried to bring me a sanitary pad.

A few old people who simply don't want to learn how a smartphone works or a computer etc.