RE: Is Pretending Not To know A Strategy To Gain More Or Lazziness

the employee strategically weaponised incompetence and achieved his goal of receiving a reviewed package

I hadn’t looked at it that way. I always thought it was just a way to avoid doing things you didn’t want to do, but it hadn’t occurred to me that it’s also a strategy to prevent people from taking advantage of your skills, especially in a professional setting, where his efforts weren’t being properly compensated.