We have a new starter at work. She has worked in another role and got transferred to us. At first i thought what a nice girl but increasingly i am wondering how she got the job. Its her second month and she is still getting daily help from her best friend in the other dept and our guy who sits next to her. Her job is very basic spreasheets of who needs training , who needs renewing for legal reasons etc . But she still needs daily help (filtering A-Z by last name, selecting the data and pressing a kep to do a pie chart of it). She even sends stuff to the analyst next to her who has a completely diff role and he does it for her! An average day involves 3 phone calls to her friend re. how to filter (again) and two 'how do I's' over stuff she should know to the guy next to her. Her friend is also up here all the time and last time i had a crisis with my role & needed some advice from a colleague both of them turned to me as if i was disturbing them when in fact their chatter was disturbing me and my usually quick thought/prob solving process. Am i a mean old bag ? Also, i have noticed a lot of quiet texting going on: as soon as i leave my desk and ,guilty looks when she notices i have walked past back to my desk next to her & seen what she is doing (hiding it with your long hair just makes me wonder why you are hunched over like that love)! Its a really busy dept and we all work hard and i feel she it taking the mick ...and got the job bcos of the cute suits! She is always late too and never chats to the women, only the men.....hey ho, the sooner i get my counselling quals off i go ... office life eh ?..