Do you know any extremely disorganized people?

Asked by Kardamom (33302) October 17th, 2017 from iPhone

There is a new woman at work. She is very nice, but she is very disorganized. I’ve known her for about 6 months, but in the last month, because I’ve gotten to know her a bit better, I’ve realized how disorganized she is.

We all have to fill out a timecard on the computer. Instead of doing it every day, which is what I do, she waits a few days and then asks us what dates we worked. I told her that I log in all my hours and dates into my phone. She said she had her dates and times on her computer at home, which didn’t make a lot of sense, because you can’t access the work computer at home.

One day she said that she forgot to bring a fork in her lunch box, so I gave her an extra plastic fork that I had in my bag. A few days later, I got both her and another co-worker a cute, inexpensive set of plastic cutlery with a fork, knife and spoon, that they could keep in their lunch boxes. The next day at lunchtime, this woman was dismayed that she couldn’t find her cutlery set. Then she remembered that she left the set in her car.

The next day, she was late coming back from lunch. She had to buy lunch at the expensive cafe down the road, because she had forgotten her lunch at home. She had said earlier in the week that she needed to start bringing her lunch instead of eating out, because of the expense. I bring my lunch every day. That was part of the reason I got her the cutlery set (and it was cute).

The next day she was late for work. She lives about 20 miles closer to work than I do. I was on time. I said if she wanted, I could text her when I was leaving my house, then she could head to work at the same time, then she would be on time every day. She said that she would just leave earlier the next day. The next day she was late again.

Last week she said she was working on a project at home that she needed to finish before a deadline date. Me and another woman who work on the same type of outside project told her that if she needed any assistance, we’d be happy to join her to get her project done. She said she was going to work on it every day after work, and finish up a few days before the deadline. She didn’t and missed the deadline. She felt terrible and my friend and I felt terrible for her.

This woman is very nice, but seems to have no organizational skills, and she suffers consequences because of it.

Have you known people like this? Are you one of these people? If you were the disorganized person, how did you fix your situation?