My boss supposedly has a PhD and calls himself “Dr.” on Teams, which I’ve never seen anyone do in a workplace before. (This is not a medical or educational company). He has absolutely no idea what he’s doing on the job. He’s supposed to be our team lead but cannot do even the simplest of tasks. I honestly don’t know what he spends his entire day doing (other than joining in on meetings for projects he doesn’t contribute to and agreeing with everyone). Literally. That’s all I’ve seen him do. We’ve recently had some people laid off and he was supposed to step in to lend a hand on various projects but he had no idea how to do them. Even with painstaking explanations and instructions from “us underlings”, anything he worked on had to be redone because of errors.
I’ve worked in places before where I didn’t always think my boss was the the most deserving of their position, but this goes beyond that. Frankly, the level of his incompetence is baffling. At least Michael Scott was a decent salesman. I feel like I’m working for Dr. Michael Scott but without the redeeming affinity for some aspect of his work.
Is it possible that he’s stolen someone else’s identity?