[singpilot]

Here's the not so funny about this at the moment.

I used to (until yesterday) be the 'good guy' boss. Myself and my comapny are in the fight of our lives with a female employee right now. Believe it or not, it's not sexual. She has been 'having inappropriate contacts' with one of our primary clients. She has him wrapped. She became belligerent with her direct supervisor, who tried to correct the aberrant behavior. That then ended up on my desk. I reassigned her to my plane, and she has become uncontrollable with even me. Will wait until she thinks there are no witnesses, and then uncork verbally on me. Has threatened to sue / use her contacts with the client. She was pulled from flight status on my direct order, and is appearing in front of HR tomorrow. I and the rest of the crew victims did today. She heard about that, and went nuclear and drew the client into the mess today.

Long and the short of it, he has asked us not to fire her.

I am developing an ulcer trying to figure out what to do now.

I am considering all the options, but dropping the client and his airplane (a good chunk of our profit) is looking like the option of choice. We have to make a stand, or knuckle under forever. It's a small community out there, and word of this has already spread. I am getting high fives from associates, but know we will all lose on this. Losing this one client will make the black go red at the end of the year.

I am sorry for the hijack, but I wanted to illustrate that we all have to be careful about joking with people we don't trust implicitly. Lawyers love cases like that, especially when it's in writing and published.