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Anonymous
On average, it takes 6 months-1 year to fully onboard into a role, to where you’re proficient. If she’s been there less than three months, and is being compared to others with more seniority, that’s unfair and not productive. Mentor/support her to where your bandwidth allows, but encourage her to speak up to your manager about what else she can be doing to get up to speed.
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Let it go, focus on your work and not on the lack of leadership from your manager. Leave it to her to manage the poor performer, don't continue to discuss with others and if the new person does approach you for help perhaps put a few times on the calendar for say 15 minutes each day for those interrupts. Decline any other requests under the subject of "sorry I have to focus on getting my own work done". Now, everyone has to start and learn somewhere so there is a level of empathy for the person who might be failing because they don't know what they don't know. You might help by writing some things down that could help their learning for reference material if this is applicable to do so and that could help them do things better. In your 1-1's focus on you and you alone but also document in your notes the time that you have spent away from your duties to help this other person. If it becomes a topic then you should discuss, if not you at least have the showing of what you did to uplift and help as much as possible.