Is "New Guy" the same one who joked about your headache, ita?

Exactly the same one. Some gall.

ita, I wish I could come to your office and have a little chat with him. An icy, polite chat.

This is pretty cool--daughter tweets to Newark mayor about her dad's sidewalk not being shoveled, and he goes over there with shovels, salt, and some volunteers and shovels it himself.

ita, I wish I could come to your office and have a little chat with him. An icy, polite chat.

I guess the "polite" means it wouldn't involve a croquet mallet? Pity.

I guess the "polite" means it wouldn't involve a croquet mallet? Pity.

Oh, I would have the croquet mallet with me, I just wouldn't use it. Perhaps thump it on the floor in a gently contemplative manner.

Oh, I would have the croquet mallet with me, I just wouldn't use it. Perhaps thump it on the floor in a gently contemplative manner.

Even when New Guy inevitably comments on your clothes? Given that he made fun of ita's headache (!!!), you know he would do that. He's the "do that" asshat.

Oh, I would have the croquet mallet with me, I just wouldn't use it. Perhaps thump it on the floor in a gently contemplative manner.

I'll need advanced warning of this happening since I'll be hiring the photographer.

Even when New Guy inevitably comments on your clothes? Given that he made fun of ita's headache (!!!), you know he would do that. He's the "do that" asshat.

I'd smile and say "Oh, I dress like this because I like to. But we're not talking about my wardrobe, we're talking about you asking a co-worker to lie for you. What's your reasoning behind that, other than you seem to be clueless?"

Given that he made fun of ita's headache (!!!)

He not only made fun of her headache, he implied she lacked a good work ethic, then asked her to cover for his own lapses. What a tool!

wants to smite New Guy

IcompletelyON, something to make you smile.

Elsie Clark was having one of the worst days of her life when fate intervened in the form of a Chicago businessman wearing shiny shoes.

On her way home to Winnipeg from Christmas spent with her family in Texas, the 79-year-old was stranded at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for hours after an airport employee left her at the wrong terminal and she missed her plane...

Dean Germeyer, who runs a computer software consulting company in Chicago, had been scheduled to depart Texas later that evening, but at the last moment caught an earlier flight. Seated across the aisle from Clark, Germeyer said he had immediately noticed that she was having a bad day...

Although Clark didn't ask for his help, Germeyer found himself making arrangements with the stewardess to have a wheel chair ready when the plane landed so that they could rush across the airport to catch her connecting flight.

When they landed, Germeyer hurried Clark to her next terminal, but Clark had already missed her second flight. The airline offered her a night for a discounted rate at a nearby hotel or she could sleep at the airport. That didn't sit well with Germeyer.

"She is somebody's grandmother," Germeyer said. "And to slide this piece of paper across the desk and say, 'Here is your voucher, good luck,' when she hasn't eaten, doesn't have her luggage, and doesn't know Chicago... I just wanted to make sure that she got some sleep that night."

So, Germeyer called his wife, who had dinner waiting at their Streeterville condo, and said to put an extra place setting on the table.

Suddenly, Clark found herself being whisked away to their home some 56 floors above the city looking up Lake Shore Drive and out over Lake Michigan. After dinner, Germeyer took her on a tour of the city before putting her up in a suite at the Affinia Hotel next to his building. He arranged for a car to take her back to the airport the next day.

"I just sat down when I got to the hotel and I cried and cried and cried," said Clark. "Everything he did for me was just so beautiful. How do you say thanks to a man like that?"

Oh, I love him. I hope he gets a ton of nice letters and email from that, not to mention some business.