Have you ever met somebody so stupid that they made you question how they survived this long?

He finally got fired after an incident that was relatively minor, but combined with his other screw ups it was the straw that broke the camels back. We were given a pallet of boxes to re-stack. Some were white, some were brown. Anyone with a single braincell could figure out that we were supposed to separate them by color into two stacks.

At this point, a combination of stunned disbelief and exasperation with yet another bone headed mistake caused us all to let him dig his own grave. I went to our supervisor to tell him we were gonna be late finishing the project, and upon explaining why the supervisor just sighed and decided it was time to let this guy go.

I worked with a guy in a warehouse who was so stupid he could probably drown drinking a glass of water. The guy managed to screw up even the simplest of tasks, and having a conversation with him was like pulling teeth. The guys I worked with were all gamers, film buffs, tv buffs, stuff like that. This guy was too, but he could never remember anything beyond the most basic details about a series. Name, producer, actors and characters, they all went into a black hole between his ears, and you had to play a game of twenty question to figure out what he was trying to talk about.

I’m wondering about attachment and transference with the therapist and the idea of escape and fantasy? How much do you think your strong feelings, constant thoughts, desires to be with your therapist are a way to escape from your present life? I wonder if the transference serves another purpose than to show us our wounds and/or past experiences, but is a present coping strategy for managing what we don’t want to face (even if unconsciously) in the present—-current relationships, life circumstances, etc. Can anyone relate to this concept of escape in relation to their therapy relationship? How does this play out for you?

He was rather confused by this, and didn’t seem to understand what he’d done wrong even after it was explained to him. He tried to argue that he had done nothing wrong, was a good employee, the usual. Didn’t change anything though. He apparently tried to sue for wrongful termination, but it didn’t get anywhere. I wasn’t important enough to get the full story, but I’d like to imagine they just gave the lawyer a list of this guy’s screw ups, and the lawyer realized he was indefensible.

“Great job, bonehead, now get out.”

He started making a single stack of both colors.

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When he finally finished and the supervisor showed up with someone from HR, the bonehead started telling them about how he’d finished the job all by himself and that everyone else had just stood around and watched.