A couple of decades ago, I first ran into the professional incompetent, someone who can have 8-10 years of good experience without having accomplished anything.

A couple of decades ago, I first ran into the professional incompetent, someone who can have 8-10 years of good experience without having accomplished anything. She (sex means nothing, just tweak the adjectives) was attractive, intelligent. articulate, easy to work with, but thoroughly incompetent. She was assigned to do a piece of one of my projects. I worked with her for a month but she couldnt get anywhere, an the VP insisted that I work with her. Finally I isolated her code and spent a day implementing the task. After a couple of years she was canned. The professional incompetent part? She had had the same kind of two year stint for 10 years. I'm glad she wasnt y hire.