Not suited to the job
My colleague Percy (name protected to preserve the terminally stupid) works in IT by default. I work for a public sector aligned organisation that was transferred from the Council 8 years ago. Percy is totally institutionalised and the type of person who can only exist in the public sector without demotion, redundancy, sacking etc.

[Now don't think I'm getting all Daily Mail about the public sector I'm not - most people work flipping hard - however there are those, like dear Percy, who are beyond hope].

Percy was promoted from the call centre to the position of IT Trainer some years ago. This was when they needed someone to bridge the gap between IT professionals and those who believe if their monitor power indicator is aglow then the computer is switched on. The IT Trainer role served its long forgotten purpose before it was canned. Now we're not an organisation to make anyone redundant unnecessarily it was decided by the powers that be that Percy would perfectly in the IT department having all the necessary skills for the job e.g. Could demonstrate page breaks in Microsoft Word and filter data in Excel.

Percy was given a pay rise and a new job title and expected to fit right in. Percy's lack of aptitude for the job was ignored by the rest of the IT department who absorbed his inefficiencies on the grounds that he was a nice guy and always willing to do the donkey work of shifting PC's and patching people in. One day a member of the IT team is showcasing a new piece of software we were using for compliance checks. A nice nifty function of the product was the ability to ping, remote desktop etc from within the utility. The only thing that had to be done was to add the web address of the server it was installed upon to the trusted sites list in your web browser. An example syntax was provided in the help notes to make the process even easier.

We all add the server address to the trusted sites list and are having a little poke around when Percy speaks up that his still isn't working.
I walk over to his machine and ask him to show me where he's added the url to the trusted site list. Percy opens the trusted site list to show me where it says:

http: //myserver/lansweeper

I was so astounded that even Percy had made this schoolboy error that I said "spot the obvious mistake?" Percy looked blank. I smiled...

Percy looked blank...

"Percy, you do know that we have don't have a server called 'My Server'?"

The penny suddenly drops. Percy shouts his excuse, "But I got the first bit right!!"
(Fireyfox is prepared to change, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 20:05, Reply)