Coworker constant hand holding
I’m at a loss. long story short we have a coworker who on paper looks great. LSSGB, PMP, MBA, BS in Industrial Engineering. I have a lame history degree but somehow outperform her by miles. Our job is demand planning/operations role with heavy excel work. Our company is a high pressure FANNG which apparently are not immune to horrible employees. She is completely unprepared for meetings with engineering, sales, supply chain. When someone asks her a question she straight up makes up numbers or says ‘yes’ when asked ‘do you understand?’. Then when pressed she starts talks word salad to just get people to stop asking. After meetings she bombards me with ‘what did boss say? Can you help me gather the data? Is this what he wants to see?’ I have no idea how she graduated from Georgia Tech my god.
She can do anything that is step-by-step or that deals with databases and queries. A wiz at Claude. But anything and I mean ANYthing that requires her to make her own decisions is a lose cause. And demand planning requires a LOT of thinking outside the box and leveraging data to back it up. She has absolutely zero communication skills and after 9 months on the job still cannot explain her product portfolio with confidence.
How do you stop dealing with time sucks? I will ignore her but she comes over to my desk with her laptop and starts asking me questions even if I am in a call. There is no confidence, no critical thinking.
Do people like this get better when on a PIP? She was already told she was not meeting expectations a few months ago. And she was laid off at the same company in another team for performance reasons but somehow was rehired by my team.
What should I tell my boss? I love supporting coworkers but this is too disruptive.