Have you ever worked with that person? The colleague who always seems to dodge basic tasks, maximizes every mental health day, complains about the workload, yet somehow effortlessly cruises straight into a promotion?

In this episode of Pull Up a Chair, hosts Haleh Rabizadeh Resnick and Brandee Blocker Anderson dive deep into the messy intersection of ethics, law, and everyday office dynamics to tackle the controversial phenomenon of weaponized incompetence at work.

Using the classic legal analytical framework IRAC (Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion), Haleh and Brandee strip away the office politics to debate whether this behavior is a calculated strategy to exploit modern workplace benefits, or if the term itself is just a harsh oversimplification of ...