She went all the way
Meg Cabot



Contents


Dedication

Begin Reading

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Books by Meg Cabot

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

For Benjamin

THE NEW YORK JOURNAL
New York City's Leading Photo-Newspaper
Kathleen A. Mackenzie

Personnel Representative

Human Resources

The New York Journal

216 W. 57th Street

New York, NY 10019

212-555-6891





Ida D. Lopez

Craft Food Services

The New York Journal

216 W. 57th Street

New York, NY 10019



Dear Mrs. Lopez:



Last week, we met to address your continuing job-performance problems related to thegiving out of dissemination of serving of items from the dessert cart you operate in the newspaper's senior staff dining room. These problems have persisted despite repeated counseling sessions withme my boss Amy Jenkins supervisors as well as staff training programs. Specifically, your refusal togive disseminate serve dessert to certain members of the senior staff has resulted in several written complaints from administrators at thisestablishment paper company.

Mrs. Lopez, your refusal to serve dessert to certain members of the paper's staff is disruptive to food service operations, and the explanations that you have provided for your behavior are notsatisfactory wholly believable inexplicable acceptable. This letter is being issued as a written warning with the expectation that there will be an immediate and sustained improvement in yourwork attitude food service dissemination job performance. Failure to comply will result in further disciplinary action.

On a more personal note, Mrs. Lopez, please stop refusing to give senior staff members dessert, even if you feel, as you explained to me last week, that they don't "deserve it." Which members of the paper's staff do or do not deserve dessert is not your decision to make! And I would hate to see you asked to leave the food craft services department over something so silly! I would really miss you-and your chocolate chip cookies!



Damn it.

From the Desk of
Kate Mackenzie


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To do:

Laundry!!!!!!!!!
Finish disciplinary warning letter to Ida Lopez.
Pick up prescriptions-Allegra, Imitrex, Levlen.
Get new Almay pressed powder compact.
Find new apartment.
Find new boyfriend.
Get better job.
Get married.
Have successful career.
Have children/grandchildren/big retirement party.
Die in sleep at age 100.
Pick up dry cleaning!!!!!!!!!
Kathleen A. Mackenzie

Personnel Representative, L­Z

Human Resources

The New York Journal

216 W. 57th Street

New York, NY 10019

212-555-6891

kathleen.mackenzie@thenyjournal.com

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