Trying hard to be honest and not mean, how incompetent are your coworkers?

Very competent. Anyone who's bad at their job doesn't last long at our place.

Coworkers are usually competent, it's the leadership who isn't.

Not incompetent exactly, but a couple of guys on my team are often a bit off what I expect them to do in terms of my internal procedures and no approach that I've found thus far seems to get them to fall in line. One of them is the very definition of old dogs, new tricks, the other has a chip on his shoulder about promotions and stuff so seems to willfully not follow best practice with his work. They're nice guys, I like them but fucking hell they irritate me professionally. They've both been angling for promotions over the last year, neither got what they wanted at year end so now I'm dealing with their frustrations but really, I've done everything I can to assist their career aspirations but they smile and nod and simply don't do what they need to do and then bitch and moan when they don't get the promotion.

It gets very wearying.

Competent but extremely lazy. My main coworker and I pick up the slack

I often feel like the dumbest guy in our company so I can't relate.

I work for myself.

A total mess lmao

It varies.

There are times I wanna be honest about the laziness I catch in our operational standards but I'm not anyone's boss. I do my job and go about my day. It's one of the reasons I've taken up more responsibility just to branch out and learn new skills and let them work so I'm not picking up their slack. They're cool people but the laziness and moans at doing their basic job functions is baffling to me.

Fairly competent, usually the incompetent ones get bounced out

My career attracts a certain type of personality. My coworkers are all hard working perfectionists, just like me. Granted, I only have 7 peers in my office and 1 is currently in training.

The best compliment I can give them is that if I opened my own business, they would all be hired Day 1.

When I was hired nobody would tell me how to use all the equipment we had. It was pretty frustrating so I ended up learning everything by myself the first two weeks I was there. Come to find out none of my coworkers knew how any of the equipment works which is why they didn't train me. So I had inadvertently become the expert and ended up training everyone else who had been there longer than me. Apparently before me they had to call in an IT guy to do anything more complex than turning this equipment on/off.

More interested in the people willing to admit they are the incompetent one than everyone rushing to throw their coworkers under the bus.

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Coworkers are usually competent, it's the leadership who isn't.

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Bingo.

My coworkers are pretty competent but they're also super lazy. They've somehow convinced leadership that they should get amazon giftcards and food for what should be a basic, mandatory part of their job. They also spend most of their time dicking around.

When I had an internship in undergrad, several of my coworkers had no idea what Kirchhoff's laws were or most other super basic electrical engineering concepts. These are people who design circuits for substations and could easily kill someone if something went wrong.

I got a lazy coworker who doesn't want to improve anything because he's content with where he's at. I totally get it, the guy isn't totally incompetent, but it's annoying when discussing solutions to problems.
The thing I hate is how he complains about welfare queens who have 10 children and live off the government giving them money, but believes all abortions should be illegal. The lack of logic there kills me

At my current job they are incredibly competent.
At my last job, not so much.
A polite example: I had to code review a 1500 line Python file when the company maximum as defined in our coding standards was 500.

All of my colleagues (the ones I work directly with, anyway) are very competent. In some aspects of what we do, we're number 1 in the UK, and we have to be pretty damn close with the rest.

I've probably been the least competent employee at every place I've worked tbh

Fairly competent, i'm comfortable with them doing my job though i understand it wouldn't be as good, and they'd miss some details and be less efficient.

There are five, now six, engineers on our team. Three drafters, one just graduated so he's shifting over to engineering. And then our manager. We work for a company that's part if a very large civil engineering firm.

I've never been part of a better team. Everyone knows their job inside and out and there is a ton of experience among them. The drafting position I filled seemed to be cursed, however. Before I arrived it was a very high turnover position and it seemed that in all of Houston they just could not find a single drafter worth a damn. It couldn't be that they just didn't want to pay either because I'm doing very well myself.

I work for a small-ish engineering firm. About 40 people total.

Everyone (except admin/HR staff) is split into smaller groups for each industry we design/consult for. Healthcare, theme parks, commercial, etc.

So all my coworkers are fairly competent for their roles. There's drafters, designers, and then the PEs who lead each team.

If you don't pull your weight / are just a poor worker, then you'll be let go.

I work in customer support outsourcing and while there are a few people who are great most of the office just don't put any effort into their work.
I don't really blame them since it's a shit job but I always try to take some pride in my work whatever it is.

Pretty much the best of the best in their field for the most part, I don't say that lightly

Very incompetent.

It's not even about effort. I don't put it in much effort because it's not necessary. Some just literally don't know how to work and should be fired years ago.

I work in healthcare. I've almost never met anyone grossly incompetent. Every nurse and doctor I've met is at least solid at what they do. A few exceptions here and there, but far less so than any other field I've ever worked in.

Competent in some areas, incompetent in others.

I only work with one other person in my department, and they're fine. It's a large portion of the people we support that make me wonder how they ever got out of middle school.

I manage a small team. They are all pretty good at what they do. Maybe i'm the incompetent one...

It's a mix. Unfortunately, two of the people I work with most closely are incredibly incompetent. I don't know how they still have jobs to be completely honest. And of course both make more than I do. :P

Everybody I work with is extremely competent in our line of work
We are no brain surgeon,
But if we miss our deadline or screw up our product ,
The internet would be on fire and a lot of peoples would hate on us in the gaming forum :-)

Very, very competent. In my current job messing up could cost our company tens of millions of dollars. In my old job messing up could have resulted in the death of thousands.

Very competent, and a good group that you can rely on.

It's my first career job and it's setting the bar high, hopefully I won't have to work in a bad office or with incompetent people in the future.

At the job? Pretty competent. As social creatures in the real world beyond our office, some i have my doubts about.

Mostly competent in our local office. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses and it all fits together. There are some people of questionable skill/talent/work ethic in our other offices, but I don't deal with them too often.

The last place I worked was 50/50.

Now, everyone is legit. I'm the dumbest in the room sometimes.

Moving from US history to AP world history, I feel exceptionally inadequate and I think I'm going to fail my kids...so I guess what I'm saying is I'm that guy this year.

Oh jeez, bottom of the barrel, lately. It's not a particularly skilled job or anything, just warehouse work, but it actually pays really well versus other similar jobs in the area, so I'm not sure why they can't attract better talent. The thing about it is that it wasn't always this way, their standards for hiring have clearly just dropped off a cliff over the past year; Used to be a new hire that people could tell was dragging their feet and acting antagonistic about being asked to, uh, work would get weeded out immediately. Now management just lets them hang around and moves them into more important stuff until they inevitably fuck up big, at which point they're still not fired, just reset back into the first task they couldn't bother to do right. And lots of folks that were earnest workers before are absolutely just coasting and phoning it in now because of the drift in standards.

So yeah, probably need to start looking for a move. It was a good place when I started, but they've lost the plot.

I don't know how most of them manage to tie their shoes or dress themselves in the morning without professional caregivers.