I don't want any damn tru-coat. I've said it many times.

It all started with this string of emails yesterday. Maybe she's in a storage room. Maybe she's in a warehouse. Maybe she's on canal street. Anywhoo.....The black and white printer that was taking up the entire area of my desk has now up and gone missing. There are a few people who have some emails that they would like to print out in black and white. Today the tension and anxiety as to her whereabouts; it escalated. I'm not sure if I have ever had to use the phrase "well then i guess you're a fucking liar" before today. If so, not many times. Chet the technical wiz kid from information technology showed up today. At first i was not included in the conversation. I was on the telephone with another wrong number from someone who was looking to pitch a television show to one of our parent companies. I bet whomever it is that he wishes to speak with does not sit at a desk in the hallway. If they did, they probably wouldn't be disguising and listing their phone number as mine. Unfortunately for all parties involved, I did not have the oportunity to option a pilot for this gentleman so I excused myself from the conversation and chimed in to the one behind me. Chet was speaking to some of the ladies with whom I work. He was telling them that he did not know where the printer was. Then he was telling them that I had told him to throw it out. This was not a true statment and I felt that I should address it. Then he said that it was Courtney who told him to throw it out. Courtney was not present in the conversation. Courtney was not in the office at all, so she was unable to defend her good word or her honor. She was out sick. According to Chet she was not sick when she told him to discard the printer. I doubt that Courtney told Chet to throw the black and white printer out. Basically, it was a pretty good move by our Chet. I did not know that he was such a scholar of Tort's. Voila l'etudiant! Eventually he left and vowed to get to the bottom of this problem that we had created. Chet is good for a solid. The place would pretty much fall apart without him.