Sorry, i need to rant and vent.
First a little background.. we are (when fully staffed) 6 people in the office. Teamleader and 5 employees. We are sub-divided into 3 divisions and the colleague in question is fortunately not in my sub division.
So i have this (female) colleague that was in the company for about 1.5 years now and she's about the most incompetent person i have ever met in my work life.
She's mid 20s so one would assume a little experienced at work but even after 1.5 years at the job she still makes these massive rookie mistakes that cause huge problems and others have to put in additional effort to correct the mistakes.
She's been repeatedly told to make permanent notes, i.e. printouts (we have a simple screen printout program that lets you print the entire screen at the press of a key) but she never does it. Instead she uses little post it notes or some other pieces of paper that of course get lost sooner or later so she forgets new and vital information.
She has no attention to detail and sometimes mistakes due to missed details in our line of work are not noticeable until way down the line when the whole process breaks down and causes monetary damage (or it causes fees that have to be paid to correct the mistake).
We have detailed customer information files where everything important is written down so you can't forget something.. she doesn't use them and when asked if she has checked the file she even admits to not have checked it.
She starts a process and mid way through starts something else (that often enough is not even time critical) so of course she gets confused sometime down the line and another mistake happens.
She has no grasp how to categorize tasks into highly important/time critical/needs to be done now or processes that can wait until the next day or even 2 days so of course she starts this uncritical work and then gets all stressed when she notices that the critical things are due now (often then making mistakes due to the stress).
On a personal level she's annoying as hell. she always has to talk and then it's the most trivial stuff.. small talk for small talk's sake which nearly everybody hates. She also can't take the hint when nobody responds that nobody cares about her new kitchen or this new clothes store she found or how the mother of her boyfriend makes her life hell etc..
She's already been transferred to a less complicated sub division (supposedly) with no improvement.. it actually got worse because she won't admit to her mistakes anymore. She actually lies to your face when asked if xyz is done and when caught makes some feeble excuse.
The silver lining is that she'll be leaving in a month. About 2-3 months ago her boyfriend broke up with her (wonder why) after she moved to a different city to be with him after they were together for about 2-3 months (not for me to judge but upending your life so completely after such a short time may not be a smart move but that's just me). She's really clingy.. the type of woman who looks for a guy with a decent job who can support a family and then hopes to get pregnant soon so she can end her work life and become a housewife and mother (not a bad "career path" in itself but she just doesn't want to master her own life and looks for someone who'll take charge for her).
However each day i get more and more annoyed and sometimes even aggressive, i can't wait until she leaves and hopefully her replacement won't be such a dud.
Sorry.. had to vent and rant.
Anyone has similar stories?
First a little background.. we are (when fully staffed) 6 people in the office. Teamleader and 5 employees. We are sub-divided into 3 divisions and the colleague in question is fortunately not in my sub division.
So i have this (female) colleague that was in the company for about 1.5 years now and she's about the most incompetent person i have ever met in my work life.
She's mid 20s so one would assume a little experienced at work but even after 1.5 years at the job she still makes these massive rookie mistakes that cause huge problems and others have to put in additional effort to correct the mistakes.
She's been repeatedly told to make permanent notes, i.e. printouts (we have a simple screen printout program that lets you print the entire screen at the press of a key) but she never does it. Instead she uses little post it notes or some other pieces of paper that of course get lost sooner or later so she forgets new and vital information.
She has no attention to detail and sometimes mistakes due to missed details in our line of work are not noticeable until way down the line when the whole process breaks down and causes monetary damage (or it causes fees that have to be paid to correct the mistake).
We have detailed customer information files where everything important is written down so you can't forget something.. she doesn't use them and when asked if she has checked the file she even admits to not have checked it.
She starts a process and mid way through starts something else (that often enough is not even time critical) so of course she gets confused sometime down the line and another mistake happens.
She has no grasp how to categorize tasks into highly important/time critical/needs to be done now or processes that can wait until the next day or even 2 days so of course she starts this uncritical work and then gets all stressed when she notices that the critical things are due now (often then making mistakes due to the stress).
On a personal level she's annoying as hell. she always has to talk and then it's the most trivial stuff.. small talk for small talk's sake which nearly everybody hates. She also can't take the hint when nobody responds that nobody cares about her new kitchen or this new clothes store she found or how the mother of her boyfriend makes her life hell etc..
She's already been transferred to a less complicated sub division (supposedly) with no improvement.. it actually got worse because she won't admit to her mistakes anymore. She actually lies to your face when asked if xyz is done and when caught makes some feeble excuse.
The silver lining is that she'll be leaving in a month. About 2-3 months ago her boyfriend broke up with her (wonder why) after she moved to a different city to be with him after they were together for about 2-3 months (not for me to judge but upending your life so completely after such a short time may not be a smart move but that's just me). She's really clingy.. the type of woman who looks for a guy with a decent job who can support a family and then hopes to get pregnant soon so she can end her work life and become a housewife and mother (not a bad "career path" in itself but she just doesn't want to master her own life and looks for someone who'll take charge for her).
However each day i get more and more annoyed and sometimes even aggressive, i can't wait until she leaves and hopefully her replacement won't be such a dud.
Sorry.. had to vent and rant.
Anyone has similar stories?
) that sits on my desk and even after the 4+ years im in this department i still need to check it occasionally when i do something.
is ridiculous. It was especially difficult to take when people would compliment my service and say "You are too smart to work as a waiter - when are you going to get a REAL JOB?" 
