Wernicke's aphasia

I came across the following definition of a disorder called "Wenicke's aphasia" and now I understand what the people at the donut shop had! It makes more sense when they couldn’t follow simple closing procedures, or I had to post a sign for the person who opened the store to “TURN ON THE DONUT MACHINE” since that’s WHY they were there after all.

I didn’t really detect much from speech issues, since most of them never spoke to the customers to begin with! But I suppose if they did they would ramble and not make sense.

Anyway, here’s the definition below. Stay tuned for stories about such employees in my upcoming Small Business book.

How does Wernicke's aphasia present?
Wernicke's aphasia results from lesions — often strokes — in the left temporal lobe. Patients have fluent but nonsensical speech with paraphasic errors, neologisms, and impaired comprehension of spoken and written instructions. This is commonly mistaken for a confusional state, particularly because of the absence of localizing signs such as hemiplegia. The speech of the confused patient may be rambling and tangential, but comprehension is not impaired.