What is your best story of incompetence?

I don't know what's happening, but everyone I deal with just seems to be inhumanely stupid. The level of incompetence I deal with is beyond shocking. The supposed "professional" people I have to deal with: lawyers, accountants, etc. can't even read a simple letter, nor find an email. I have to tell them how to do their job and remind them of every little detail. I am not exaggerating. I feel like I am dealing with retarded children.



Last week I called the Post Office because a package was missing. I asked the woman for the phone number of the warehouse where the lost items are kept so I could speak with the manager there. She claimed she did not have the number. I told her that was ridiculous; the U.S. Postal Service must have a list of all their main numbers, and this is one of the biggest. She maintained she had no idea what the number was, and they did not have a directory. I called 411 and got the number.



10 points for the best story of unbelievable incompetence.What is your best story of incompetence?
We have retired. The examples you have given remind me of my favorite Murphy's Law. Bureaucrats are people who have been promoted to their level of incompetence and have remained there.LOL

It is a disgrace and as my dad would have said a crying shame how Lazy, irresponsible and ridiculous people have become. Part of what we have reaped are the fruits of affirmative action and quota hiring practices of the 60's-90's. Those people are still in the system and have been promoted because of longevity to positions of authority and they recruit only people of poor skill levels than themselves and discourage initiative and common sense in performing duties by subordinates. People who try to do a good job are ostracized and driven away by there supervisors to make room for conformists that represent no threat to the status quo.What is your best story of incompetence?
having to read your storyWhat is your best story of incompetence?
G.W.BUSH... 10 points please...



As to the Post Office employee... they are not to give out numbers...they could get fired for doing so... often the number you dial for the local post office is answerd at an office a thousand miles away...that person knows nothing about local situations.... and can not connect you to the local office you want... The PO is not a user friendly institution... there is a valid reason for the coining of the phrase "going postal"... as you would learn if you were to go to work for that business.
Here's a story, your trying and failing to NOT be a smug, sanctimonious, harping, nitpicking ***** to everyone.



How do you like this: You used "inhumanely" instead of humanly. You obviously can't spell "etcetera." You forgot the word THAT. Yeah, who cares? Well, that's what you do to everybody.



That woman at the Post Office probably didn't give you the number because of what an @ss you are. It's your way or the highway, right, ball-buster? Jesus, why don't you lay off of people for two seconds instead of hovering over them and trying to find faults, which actually causes people to make mistakes because of the stress that you put on them over nothing at all. If you were my boss, I'd ******* shoot you. You love to stick it to people when they make a mistake because you measure yourself against other people. PATHETIC.



You don't know everything, so I hope that somebody holds your feet to the fire for every little mistake that you make while feeling superior so that you can know what that feels like.