The new guy at work is supposed to make my life easier, not harder, yet the month he’s been here makes me wish that I didn’t have another person and instead was just doing everything on my own.
He’s been here a month and yet he’s making day-one rookie mistakes (out of the blue! On things he’s done plenty of times before!) that mean I waste a lot of time doing the things he should have already done or fixing his mistakes.
Granted, there is a learning curve. I get it. I’m patient and willing to find new ways to communicate and train so something will stick. But just when I think we’re on the same page and getting somewhere, I end up spending half my day on something that should have been completed last night and wouldn’t have taken very long at all then, but because I have to squeeze it in between all the other stuff I do, it takes forever.
I don’t know how many times I can explain something or say “hey show me what you think this task means so we can figure out the disconnect together” or be like “you’re still doing this wrong and I don’t understand why because you’ve shown before you understand how to do it correctly.”
The Obsessive Dilettante 