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Q: Incompetent and yet arrogant
Is this a common trait in China?
I have met quite a number of people at my different workplaces who are basically useless and very slow at doing their work but still arrogant and full of themselves enough to criticize people who are working well.
By very slow I mean Chinese style slow, taking 6 hours to do something that most people in this world could do in 15 minutes.
They like to remind everyone else how great they are, don't accept any advice or critic but love criticizing others with a certain level of subtlety (I must admit).
They don't like to be pushed and asked to go faster, they spend much time chatting with their friends on Weixi or QQ and claim that they are chatting with coworkers for work.
I am not talking about managers or bosses but people who are at about the same level on the ladder that those they criticize.
Incompetent and arrogant. I was sure this would be a thread on Chinese drivers and their seatbelt habbits.
I know the type very well. They usually get their job through family connections or buy it, are basically worthless, stupid and lazy but think they are better than everyone else because they can't be fired.
The next generation of Chinese are going to be even worse. You can tell by the attitude that youngsters display in their everyday life and study. China is about to spawn a whole generation of workers that haven't got a clue what hard work is or how to conduct themselves in the work place.
Superpower: 
Bravelife:
If most Chinese are lazy to work,then the boss needs to make profits by hiring useful workers.Then China will be a good market for you foreigners.
Kaiwen:
Sadly Bravelife, Chinese immigration and employment laws make it impossible to employ foreign nationals for many roles otherwise many of your fellow countrymen would genuinely find it difficult to obtain meaningful jobs. Many of them would struggle to survive in a truly market economy.
Eorthisio:
Agree with Kaiwen, Chinese get high-ranking positions thanks to China's protectionism, in a free market economy where only the most-productive / most-competent / most-qualified / most-creative people get the best jobs, Chinese nationals with their actual working methods and behavior at the workplace would struggle to get anything else than bottom of the ladder positions.
The market doesn't care where you come from, what's your ethnic background or what you believe in, the market only cares about how productive, competent, creative and qualified you are.
The market is the reason why some countries are considered as developed and modern and why some others are considered as "under-development" (aka: need to open more) and backward. In a truly free Chinese economy people would be hired not because they are Chinese or atheist or members of the party but because they are qualified, productive, competent and creative, and foreign companies would be allowed to freely move in and out of China according to the demand, they would be allowed to freely compete with Chinese companies without being fined for making better products than local manufacturers. In a truly opened China foreigners would be able to get the Chinese citizenship (or at least permanent residence) because they are bringing something useful for the country, to make China a better place.
As long as it won't be the case China will be considered by the rest of the world as a backward society and looked down upon, no matter how much money they have.
This type is very familiar to me as well and it seems they thrive in various mid-level administration positions at universities, colleges and public schools generally.
Here the administration have yet to complete schedules for the semester in spite of the semester having officially started last Friday and them having "worked" during the weekend to make up for some holiday. The holiday plans have incidentally not been finalized either.
Eorthisio:
We had similar issues at most places were I worked, management waiting the last minute to notice you / do something.
I gave the Chinese gym trainer shit because he showed one of his customers how to do a one arm dumbbell row (back exercise)and it was wrong.
The trainer got pissed off with me.I dont think he even lifts weights.
