Clueless

I think everyone has had this experience.

A fellow co-worker who is so clueless (not maliciously) to the world & even of their own selves.  I work with I will call her Roberta.  She has a graduate degree in psychology but she doesn't even know how to conduct a clinical interview.  She doesn't know how to obtain a history of a person.  Even if you tell her to proceed as if she were the patient's biographer and ask anything and everything to really get to know who the person is that is sitting in front of her, she still doesn't know what to do.

Last week she was told to work on a certain project and told her "this is priority".  Now I assume that most people with even basic sense and knowledge, say with a high school education at least, would know what this means right?

Well I could not be more wrong.  Apparently according to Roberta, "this is priority" means "let me do something completely different from what you asked me so I can be proactive on a completely irrelevant project so you can praise me".  Then when she was asked about the status of the original project she was assigned to do, her reply was "well you didn't give me a deadline".

Roberta is clueless.  Don't get me wrong, she isn't malicious in her mindlessness.  Her mind is vacuous, she lacks common sense and she simply just doesn't get it.

She arrives to work late (probably because the 2 brain cells she has delays her ability to put on shoes).  When asked why she did something utterly dumb at work, her replies usually entails something of this nature: "Oh, I don't know", "Oh I forgot", "Oh I didn't know that is what you meant", "Oh I didn't think it was a big deal". 

Man, how nice it would be to walk around with a frame of mind like that.  Must be nice.