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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They were going to the client meeting... so .... it sounds like she was coming from HER house and left the laptop in her car etc. How can the OP be responsible for waking her up and getting her to the airport. I can understand if they were mid-travel then he could have reasonably taken some responsibility for her... but.... [u]she should be totally responsible for getting to work on time.[/u][/quote]

Yes, this was the situation.  It's not like I could bang on her hotel room door or anything.  And I honestly don't know what people who don't travel know.  How would I?![/quote]

OP you said earlier:

[quote=Anonymous]It's actually part of my job title (that would be engineer).

I'm not trying to make excuses, but I honestly had no idea people wore shoes that high. Fashion isn't my thing, and I didn't know they existed. How can I be expected to tell her not to do something if I don't know the thing is question exists? Honest question.[/quote]

[b]You must be an AWFUL engineer.[/b] You don't seem to have any capacity for systems thinking or problem solving at all.

As a fellow engineer, the first thing I would do if my manager assigned me to help someone who'd never traveled before is meet, ask questions, and go over the basics of business travel, and provide a detailed list of resources online she could research on her own. Doing this would have allowed you to demonstrate that 100% of the problems were caused by your coworker's lack of professionalism and not your own inability to prepare and manage her. Sleeping in is her fault. But showing up with the wrong outfit, wrong size luggage, without the laptop? All those things would have been solved had you adequately prepared her with e.g., a simple checklist you could have found online like http://travel.tripcase.com/blog/business-trip-packing-list/ or http://www.oncallinternational.com/blog/how-to-pack-like-a-pro-on-your-next-business-trip/
 
By not doing some basic due diligence, you opened yourself up to your manager's negative feedback on your poor performance. And all you have to say for yourself it is that you "can't know something if you don't know it exists"? Again, that sort of mindset is awful coming from an engineer, who is presumably paid to design systems to fix problems they haven't necessarily experienced first-hand. You sound like level 1 tech support.[/quote]

Oh yeah, based on this incident she must be an awful engineer.  :roll: [/quote]

Based on his or her inability to adequately prepare for this assignment and foresee and address common failure points for business travel and items specific to this individual he or she seems to have known in advance would be a problem (lateness, wardrobe, luggage, TSA)? Yes, he or she must be a terrible engineer.[/quote]

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