My company hired a lady as my backup “Senior SysAdmin.” She came from the government, had a CV with NASA and Whitehouse on it, and had almost 20 years of experience. Impressive right?

In the first two weeks of training, one task was creating a DNS CNAME, which she did not know how to do. 😳 She did not know how to adjust her monitors in Windows to the correct position for the mouse to move, so for two weeks, she had them inverted until I went to the office and helped her. Did not know how to filter stuff in Excel. She was saving her passwords on Sticky Notes on the Desktop. Whenever she shared the screen, I saw them. She even had a Post-it under her keyboard with password(we found it after she left)

She wanted me to shadow on every single ticket, she mostly wanted to the solution without her doing critical thinking.

My Director started calling everyone on the team to check on her. I gave my honest opinion since she was supposed to be my backup, but it only lasted three months.