It occurs on the eighth or ninth
Monday of the second or third
month --or is it second or third Monday? Eighth month? Fourth Monday? Is it even Monday?
Forget it. You can celebrate Incompetence Day any damn day you desire. To get you started, here's how I celebrated my last Incompetence Day:
One of my workplace responsibilities is to output a network status report every Monday morning, chronicling the events of the previous week. My company has a multitude of sites (okay, 23) across North America, and for each site there are four individual status pages. My duty is to go to an intranet page, fill in a CGI form, and get all of the reports and print them. After that, I sort them, bind them, and summarize the summaries. This week, though:
- I forgot to select "Print Pages 1 to 1" and wasted almost 100 pages of paper and color toner/ink on a meaningless footer.
- Lacking desk space, I laid some of them out on the floor. Of course, this is the same floor I roll around in my ancient throne-like (it's ugly brown upholstery) chair, meaning I had to reprint a quarter of the pages.
- I started using the three-hole punch instead of the binding punch, so now half of the pages have both sets of holes--and now some of the pages don't line up with either set of holes.
- I printed the entirely wrong sites or the wrong dates for a couple of the reports, and printed several duplicates of others.
All in all, a two to three hour job ended up taking me two-thirds of the day. And that's what I call a good Incompetence Day.