It was, she explained to the subcommittee staff, making her appear "incompetent".
By saying nothing, Twitter is creating terrible PR for itself, and running the risk of appearing incompetent or worse.
Having someone to offer guidance on these requisites, particularly someone you don't want to appear incompetent in front of, keeps you on top of your game.
But a government expert, Dr. Gregory B. Saathoff, a psychiatry professor at the University of Virginia, said because of Ms. Siddiqui's desire to return to Pakistan and her interest in avoiding prosecution, she "has had a strong motivation to appear incompetent".
Military rulers appear incompetent, out of touch and violently reactionary, while civilian politicians bicker and appear increasingly polarised between Islamists and secularists.Worst of all, the road map for transition outlined by the generals is so meandering and open-ended that many Egyptians find it hard to discern a horizon that might mark the end of their country's political transition.
Even if theories-in-use do not work, people will hesitate to refute them, for fear of appearing incompetent or disloyal (Argyris and Schön 1974 , 1996 Schön 1983).
How it responds may depend in large part on whether it would rather appear incompetent and controlled than venal and actively corrupt, and to what extent it was hiding its own secrets along with Enron's.
Reagan made a deal with Iran to hold onto American hostages until after he was elected, so as to make Jimmy Carter appear incompetent, and no Republican remembers that act!
The main Byzantine source for the period, Theophylact Simocatta, displays a marked bias in favour of Priscus, especially in its account of the Balkan campaigns, where the other generals are denigrated and made to appear incompetent, with their achievements regularly belittled while Priscus's successes are extolled and his defeats glossed over.
11 Residents typically navigate in complex relations and power discrepancies, do not want to appear incompetent and often hesitate to communicate to superiors.
