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i had someone assigned under me at work. this person was old enough to have a teenager, yet she could not function. we were painting the halls, she kept setting the paint tray into puddles of paint that she spilled, then kept setting it down on the bare floor. she could not understand how to scrape tape off the tabletops. she could not tell me what her job duties were after 4 months of doing the same shit every day (take trash out, clean bathrooms, sweep, wipe down tables. she could not list that off to me. any time i was giving her direction, she would stare bankly at me slackjawed, like there was no intelligence in her eyes, then 5 minutes later i would find her on her phone because she couldnt remember what she was supposed to do and didnt even think of asking me to remind her.
she lived a couple houses away from where we work and her mother (who she lives with) would walk over to check on her sometimes. weird.
the last straw came when after 2 hours of work, i came out of the bathroom and all the lights were off and alarm code set, and she was gone. i texted her and asked where she went and she said she thought we were done for the day bc she finished her task and couldnt find me (I WAS IN THE BATHROOM.)
when i got management involved, i was told i didnt try hard enough with her. lol
We used to have an employee like that too. You could give him exactly one task at a time. Any more than that, and he would get overloaded and nothing would get done. And even then, the one task usually had to be double-checked, because there was a good chance he would do it wrong. Even when it was something we did every day, and that he had been shown multiple times.
He was the embodiment of “the lights are on but nobody is home.” He was awake and seemingly alert… But holy shit, that is a very big sliding scale. Oftentimes when talking to him, you legitimately got the impression that he was zoned out like a driver turning their brain off during their commute.
He quit to become a middle school teacher. No clue how he is doing now, but we made lots of jokes about his middle schoolers being smarter than him when he left.