Stop me if this sounds familiar: In the job interview, the candidate told me they could do everything when I asked them directly if they could. Who knew that they couldn’t? It should have been me.
The reason it should have been me is I had done so many hiring interviews with both techs and office staff that I knew the pitfalls of bad hiring practices but still I got blindsided by this so often in my contracting life. Looking back, it’s easy to know why I didn’t bother to really find out what they could and couldn’t do.