Sorry it's been so long since I have blogged...it has been a crazy drama-filled week and also my internet hasn't been working at my apartment for the whole week so I only have my iPhone to check the blog and stuff.

Here's the drama. I think I already mentioned on here that one of the people at my office is leaving the company but it has become way more involved than her just leaving. The backstory... my bosses had decided back in December that they were going to fire this person because, well, it just wasn't working (mostly attendance issues) but because of her flakiness and never coming into work - they couldn't get her in a meeting to fire her. By the time we came back from the Christmas break they finally met with her and she told them before they had a chance to fire her that she had decided that she was going to quit because she needed to move back to Germany to take care of her ailing parents. So they made the decision that she would stay for a while and organize things a bit before she actually left. Then this last Monday it all started. I came into work and there was a message that she wasn't going to be coming into work that day (not very unusual) but she said that something bad had happened, didn't say what. So that day when I checked her email for orders from over the weekend I found that there were HUNDREDS of emails in her email that were unanswered and unfiled with no evidence of anything being done with them or any contact being made. Pretty much we found that she hadn't been doing her job for at least the last 5 months and possibly 2 years (!!). Everyone that was at work that day got together and we talked about it and decided she was going to be asked to leave at the end of the week. Then on Monday night she called my cell phone and said that she wasn't coming into work on Tuesday because whatever had happened was still going on. So on Tuesday my boss called her and we found out that the reason she wasn't at work on Monday and Tuesday was because she had gotten arrested...for a DUI...in Arizona!!...I know. So we were pretty disappointed about that, partly because it is totally irresponsible but mostly because she had told payroll the week before that she was going to work 30 hours over the weekend...but she wasn't!! She was going to Arizona!! So she had lied about it so she would already get paid for that time because of how payroll works. So on Weds she finally came in and was asked to pack up her things and leave - which she did. So now we are left with having to clean up and organize the work she has been getting paid for for the last two years on top of the work we already have to do for our jobs. Needless to say, it is a really frustrating situation and upsetting that someone would take so much advantage of the freedom we get in our company and the trust that everyone has that people are doing their jobs. We are all very glad that she is gone so that we can figure everything out and move forward.