Recognizing the Symptoms of a Toxic Employee

How to Ignore Ignorance in the Workplace

1. Concentrate on being the best employee you can be.
2. Confront the person with the truth.
3. Look for good qualities in the individual.
4. Walk away from stressful situations.
5. Treat the individual with respect.
6. Ask your employer or supervisor for his or her opinion on the matter.

A common cause of incompetence is laziness, which can lead to errors, lateness and other problems. Not double checking your work is an example of incompetence, since anyone can do that.

• A general negative attitude: Unhappy employees exude negativity, and many times you can’t correct the situation to make them happy.
• Unwillingness to take responsibility: This often reveals itself in backstabbing and blaming others.
• Gossip.
• Sabotage and insubordination.

Identifying incompetence

• An inability to act, is the number one bad habit.
• Keeping things secret is another key trait.
• Being overly-sensitive to everything is next in line.
• Refusal to deviate from procedure is a sure sign of incompetence.

The definition of incompetent is someone or something not qualified, inadequate or insufficient for a given purpose. An example of incompetent is a person getting behind the wheel of a manual transmission car, who doesn’t know how to drive with a stick shift. An incompetent person.

Legally, this is described as firing “for cause.” In general, there are a half-dozen categories of acceptable reasons for termination: Incompetence, including lack of productivity or poor quality of work. Insubordination and related issues such as dishonesty or breaking company rules.

As nouns the difference between incompetency and incompetence. is that incompetency is the condition of being incompetent while incompetence is inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.

1. incompetent person – someone who is not competent to take effective action. incompetent. unskilled person – a person who lacks technical training. blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler, butcher – someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.

You start the process of declaring a person mentally incompetent by filing an official petition with the local district of your state’s probate court. At the same time that you are filing to have someone declared mentally incompetent, you are also filing to become their legal guardian.

Asylum /A*sy”lum/, n.; pl. E.

Here are five general steps to follow to get someone declared legally incompetent:

1. File for Guardianship.
2. Consult an Attorney.
3. Schedule a Psychological Evaluation.
4. Submit the Evaluation to the Court.
5. Attend the Hearing.

In order to be found incompetent to stand trial, one of the following requirements must be met:

1. The defendant does not understand the nature and object of the proceedings against him or her.
2. The defendant is unable to assist in his or her defense in a rational manner.

Legally incompetent means a person who has been adjudicated incompetent by a circuit court because of a mental condition which renders him incapable of taking care of his person or managing his estate.

The general and prevailing law is, no, you can’t sue your employee. While you are responsible and liable for the negligence of your employee (called vicarious liability), it doesn’t work the other way around.