There is mildly stressed and there is barking mad

We're dealing with the latter.

Karl Marx wrote, "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

The truth is that public service employee relations are neither tragic nor farcical; just a pain in the arse. It's almost impossible to believe that all of a sudden I'm back in a workplace drama of truly bizarre proportions. The simple fact of the matter, however, is this: a manipulative or mad woman gets to make wholly unfounded allegations against her supervisor (this time not me but I'll get sucked into it ... just wait and see) then leaves the office (never to be seen again, I'll bet). She'll get an insurer financed pay out. We'll cover for her absence and be left with the shit. The only thing that matters is that no more damage is done to Miss Millie, who is a more than decent person.