Okay... I know this isn't what you've been waiting for, but it's just so much more interesting, really! I just got off the phone with The Spy, who told me several very interesting pieces of gossip.

1. The ex-boss really is filing a workman's comp claim against the ex-job for the "injury" which she claims to have obtained the day before she was fired (which, if such an injury really had occurred it would have been her fault for two separate reasons, plus she had let the workman's comp insurance lapse!). Anyway, The Spy learned about this, because when she filed her claim, she listed one person as a witness to her "accident" - her husband! And she also listed both her husband and The Spy as people who could verify that she had indeed been injured. The Board, their lawyer and a workman's comp lawyer had a meeting today to discuss this and other issues, and they asked The Spy to come down and join them. He assumed they'd ask him questions about what (if anything) he had seen, and then ask him to leave... but they allowed him to stay for the whole meeting. Thus the gossip. Anyway, he had not seen her "accident/injury" nor had he witnessed her suffering any kind of pain or discomfort in the 24 hours between the alleged accident and her firing. He told them that he would indeed be willing to testify at a workman's comp hearing if so required.

2. A warrant has been issued against the ex-boss for theft of two items: a small electronic device and a large appliance type thing, together worth over $1000. The sherrif's department and various others are still investigating the whole money thing. They don't want to charge/arrest her until the investigation is complete. Right now, in addition to the personal purchases she made on the company credit card, they've found that she was writing checks to herself, but putting them in the checkbook ledger as checks to places the ex-job owed money! Additionally, they've uncovered something like $25,000 in unpaid bills she left behind.

3. This is my favorite. Up until now, it didn't look like there was anything the ex-boss's daughter could be charged with. Well, last spring she was on probation for assault. Her sentence was however many hours of community service. Apparently, she claimed to have done all her community service at the ex-job! At the same time she was drawing a salary from there! With her mother (they have different last names, or at least they do when the daughter uses her married name) signing off as the superviser who observed her doing the community service! They're turning this information over to the probation people, who hopefully will get her in a hella lot of trouble for this.

Anyway, that's the gossip. I'll have a post up on the EX-boyfriend very soon :-)