First off, I tried to do this posting from my Sidekick and the emails are jammed up, not sending, but won't let me delete... so if they do go through eventually, you might see several posts with the same pictures/blog entry. Hence, now i'm doing it the cheater way from sidekick.dngr.com.

So it was one hell of a week. One of my staff members has been nothing short of a thorn in my side. Calling in sick several times in January after being told no one could take time off (it's a busy time of year), when she is there she sandbags it, you ask her to do something she doesn't etc. My boss and my bosses boss don't like her either, and we started documenting everything she was doing wrong incase we had to fire her soon. Well after just not coming into work on Thursday due to "personal business" she got an earfull from me and my boss Friday morning. She freaked out, started telling my boss how much she dislikes him and his style, how she wishes we'd just fire her, etc etc. Finally, she admiited that she has been looking for another job (after denying it several times). So we left the meeting that the understanding that we'd start looking for a new staff person, and she could keep job hunting. All was good. After lunch she came into my office, she got an offer from the company she had talked to the prior day, and was giving one weeks notice. Actually the story is more involved than that, but suffice it to say that I have 1 week to cross train her position. And then our auditors come out for 2 weeks for year end audit. So February is shaping up to be just a great month. So to celebrate (take the edge off) I had a beerski with my coworkers...at work naturally. It was friday after all, and the week before we got bombed on Jagermeister. I personally was hoping for the hard liquor this friday as i needed it, but alas only beer was handed out. As well I got lucky, I was the receipient of an Alien Lamp that was going to be thrown out. It was found in the cubical of some old employee long gone. No one else wanted it... I don't know why.

The pic of the letter is proof positive that I only have one more week of dealing with a person who may well be an alien herself as she doesn't act like anyone I've ever encountered at work.