A couple of years ago, we had people send in their favorite euphemisims for workplace incompentence...orginals and classics. They don't really get old, so we thought we share them again. Enjoy.
He's two raisins short of a fruitcake.
Having him show up is like having 2 good men call in sick!
A Forest Killer - Somebody's who's able to produce paper, but no answers.
He must have donated his brain to science before he was done using it.
Not only is he not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he is the spoon in the knife drawer.
Her staircase doesnt go all the way to the top floor.
She has two speeds...slow and stop!
Did he have an extra cup of stupid this morning?
If you gave him a penny for his thoughts, you’d get change.
Results of a performance review: "I thought this guy's performance had reached rock bottom, but then he started to dig."
The wheel's spinning but the hamster's dead.
I've heard of people having an inferiority complex, but in your case it isn't a complex.
Not only does his elevator not go to the top, but the cable's broken.
A "file cabinet wearing a dress" is the way one of our members described one particularly "unbusy" woman.
And in an Information Systems department, one of our members had a term they used for clueless users with silly complaints. They'd call them:
ID ten T errors (ID10T – better spelled IDIOT!)