Most incompetent person you ever worked with/hired

[Medsy]

I've got a new colleague, he has been here for 2 months and I 100% understand it takes time to be eased/trained into a new role, but this is next level. It's actually making me wonder whether he lied on his CV or at interview. There are really, really basic aspects to the industry he doesn't seem to have heard of, the other day he was struggling to use a simple Word feature, and one of the requirements was a foreign language which he said he was proficient in.
Ultimately I am going to have to work with him as a pair and I am trying to be as helpful and generous as I can but a part of me thinks why have they hired him?@
Opening the floor....Have you ever worked with or hired someone where it went beyond just incompetence and you thought "WTF is going on!".

*meant so called Manager not documentary 😂

@SquashedSquashess

Wow you can see how people end up in prison or with a criminal record with incompetence like this .

This absolutely nails it! A cost benefit analysis.

I used to be a teaching assistant. Frequently had to help teachers spell. Though I didn't expect this when I went into the role, it didn't really bother me as it became clear you can teach really well whilst struggling with spelling.

Teacher who did bother me had to be helped to find various countries on a map, in a geography lesson, and had to be corrected (privately) on the pronunciation of a major historical figure when we began a whole term topic on that subject. I wouldn't have bothered correcting her, but there were 6 year olds in the classroom who knew that she was wrong. It wasn't really the lack of knowledge that bothered me - everyone has blind spots - it was the fact that she didn't care about her ignorance and hadn't checked her slides/lesson plan before the lesson. She was condescending towards families, e.g. we had a girl with a family of Indian origin in the class and she became very annoyed at the mum who wanted her to pronounce her daughter's name correctly.
Told me she couldn't wait to get pregnant so that she could have a year's holiday. 🙄

Anyway, she was incredibly insecure and was fairly new and fairly young, and I think she'll probably grow into the job. I probably hated her because she was working above her competency while I was 15-20 years older and working well below mine (responsibility all mine) 😂

@cromartyforties , that teacher sounds awful.
I know someone highly intelligent who has no understanding of geography. It's like she has a mental block with it.

Me too!
Have a degree but this boggled my brain 😀

Worked in a management role at a care agency where staff qualified for a 6 monthly bonus if they met the qualifying criteria. To get the bonus qualification you had to do 3 things which were all part of the job - hand in timesheets on a Monday before noon; not hand work back with less than 48 hours notice; and to complete all medication records correctly.

Prt of my role there was training and assessing staff competence in medication administration, auditing medication charts on a monthly basis and addressing reports of medication errors.

One member of staff completely messed up during their annual assessment and so failed and had to undergo retraining in the area they failed. Complained that they were being bullied by being assessed and they should have been allowed to pass irrespective of numerous basic errors because they worked lots of hours!

Another member of staff complained that she was being rejected for her bonus qualification every month because of the audit process - she routinely failed to sign for medication given, or would give the wrong medication for the time of day (so would give evening meds at lunchtime or in the morning). She didn’t grasp that it was her making errors that meant she didn’t get the email confirming she had qualified for the bonus. She then tried to claim it was discrimination and that she wasn’t getting the bonus because of her colour - except we were very careful to keep accurate records of errors and retraining and could show she was regularly called back in for 1-2-1 sessions.

One of them left our company and went to a care home before being taken down the competence route with our HR provider. The other still works for the same company and still
complains about bullying when she has complaints made about her.

Damn, I was going to ask you where I could watch the documentary: it sounds very satisfying!

Remembered someone who failed her nursing placement three times and is still trying.
Wrote to all the bodies involved after the first fail claiming she should have been passed. Took ages going back and forth and it's now going for 6 years and she still hasn't passed.

A factor than can lead to keeping crap healthcare staff is the recruitment freeze.
If a manager goes to the effort of managing someone out - and it's a huge effort - the chances are their post won't be replaced. If someone is OK 50% of the time, that's still half a person more than another vacant post.

I'm not saying it's OK. But it can disincentive team managers from dealing with issues.

Does his name begin with W? 😀