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Pretty close. It was a perfect storm of her being a subcontractor, buried under a hierarchy of a mix of incompetent subcontractors and incompetent employees who also happened to be fairly senior. In the mix was also a dose of HR sensitive health issues, and subcontractor politics.

In other words it was a mess. And it took a lot of firings to get rid of all of them once the tower of failure was discovered by a new outside hire department head. There appeared to be a something an effect of the incompetent senior person surrounding himself with incompetents who then hired incompetents and turtles all the way down.

It was almost comical that we ended up with such a group of terrible technical staff in this area, but "types code in MS-Word" was definitely the low point and is now a bit of a company legend.