Signs that your "Backup Person" shouldn't be your backup

I have a person who is supposed to be my backup person to network issues. She is supposed to step up and help me when things are not easy and when I can’t just simply do enough things to get things done. It’s actually a joke. It’s a big joke. Really, she doesn’t qualify has help. She doesn’t qualify as backup either. Here are just some ways that you can spot if someone shouldn’t be your backup:

 

1. They need directions with pictures on how to empty out the internet cache.
2. They need directions on how to hit the button that says “CLOSE” on a pop up box.
3. They write emails bashing the technical help desk and send it to the technician that they absolutely bash to pieces in the email and forget to send it to you.
4. They call helpdesk to have them reboot a server because they are afraid (even after they were given one-on-one training by a big-wig Microsoft trainer who knows the network personally).
5. They always offer to help but suddenly are “going to be late” on that day.
6. They don’t respond to important emails
7. They forget how to install printers.
8. They forget how to turn a computer off.
9. They forget that we have updates running automatically at night.
10. They forget to tell you when they have changed toner out so you don’t run out of toner.
11. They bitch about you behind your back.
12. They mess up changing a user’s password.
13. They tell people to go to them first with any problems.
14. They can’t install regular printers, but they can manage to install the color printer for their friends.
15. They install game software without seeing what they were installing.
16. They gave someone the secondary administrator password to a regular user who said they knew what they were doing.