My wife is an assistant manager at her company. She needs to review the work of her more junior colleagues - even though they have been at their jobs for 3 years. She is exasperated. Your situation reminds me of hers

cryotosensei

I hate it when colleagues don't do the minimum research but expect that you will magically fix their problems...

I used to have a colleague, she was a contractor, I trained her for a long while. She was good, understood everything halfway, and whenever she had a question, you could see she had done her homework, and applied all the knowledge that was passed onto her. I loved her (not romantically!) A shame the company did not renew her contract.

AskSN

What is your pet peeve at work?

I hate it when colleagues don't do the minimum research but expect that you will magically fix their problems...
I used to have a colleague, she was a contractor, I trained her for a long while. She was good, understood everything halfway, and whenever she had a question, you could see she had done her homework, and applied all the knowledge that was passed onto her. I loved her (not romantically!) A shame the company did not renew her contract.