-t's tuna casserole recipe looks like the one I learned as a child.
How on earth do people like this get hired??? Padded resume?
Nothing so deceitful, really. We put out a Request for Proposal (RFP) to 10 or so contractors with whom we have a contract relationship, asking them for 4 engineers and one environmental planner. The 4 engineers were people who were already here on contract, but that contract was expiring and in order to keep them we had to switch them to another company. (This happens all the time.) But we didn't have an environmental person because that person is retiring, so we needed someone new.
I was asked to find someone to recommend, but I really couldn't: anyone I knew who was looking for work was someone I couldn't actually recommend. So the contracting firms just scoured LinkedIn until they found someone they could claim fit the qualifications of the contract, and submitted their resumes.
According to my boss, very few of the firms submitted anyone who was truly qualified, and this woman came closer than everyone else. Based on the resume that was submitted, she should be able to do the job, but she's apparently had some sort of life disaster or breakdown and cannot manage even something as simple as putting a CD into a computer, or opening a file on her computer desktop.
I've tried to be kind and helpful to her, but it's exhausting and she never stops talking, which in our open-plan office is very annoying to everyone around her. And I don't think she realizes that. Also, she's a smoker, which wouldn't be so much of a problem except I can smell it on her clothes, and ick.
The down side of all of this is it will be months before she's actually useful, if they don't cut her loose immediately. She will have relocated to the Bay Area from LA for no purpose, and we'll be scrambling to find someone to pick up the slack. What a clusterfuck.