[Ramius]

Back in those days... the boss was a lady that I just loved to death. She was awesome. It was all the others in the department that were the problem. One in particular. Dang... she was mean. Just mean. She hated me thoroughly for reasons that I never did and still don't understand.

She was known around the company as "the Ice Queen". She took over the department while our boss went on a leave of absence for about six months, only a month or two after I was hired. She tried unsuccessfully to have me fired a couple of times, and then wrote (as I understand it) a *scalding* review of me when our boss got back later that year.

When the boss got back she brought me in to her office to talk about this review. She asked me if I'd seen it. I said that I'd gotten a copy of it in an envelope, but had never opened it or read it.

Don't you want to read it? she asked?

No... I said... I have already supposed that it is negative, as there is something about me that seems to bother her very much. I have decided, though, not to read it because I'm afraid that my response to it would harm my career more than her opinion ever could.

About a year or so later, the Ice Queen was fired for other reasons. Never did see that review.

[Wneighbor]

She tried unsuccessfully to have me fired a couple of times, and then wrote (as I understand it) a *scalding* review of me when our boss got back later that year.

Well, in light of this topic of conversation going on tonight, I feel obligated to ask you if you'd like me to kick her ass for ya. hehehe