There’s a new girl at the office. Her name is Janet Simons. Seems the boss hired her from a resume she sent out on the Internet. The boss really liked her assertiveness and thought she would be a great asset to the office, but the rest of us think she is a bit on the wild side.

Janet spends a lot of time hanging out with the computer folks. She seems to think she can teach them a thing or two about programming. Nobody knows Janet’s background or where she came from exactly. The personnel office is still checking her out, the boss told us. She did mention that we might know a distant cousin of hers named Melissa. We couldn’t place the name.

Janet’s main skill seems to be her ability to send email. That gal can get a message out to every address in an entire mailbox before you can blink an eye. While the rest of the office is hanging around the coffee pot waking up from the holiday weekend or attending a meeting, as usual, trying to figure out what to do about the latest virus, Janet is busy working on the system files and upgrading them to be sure that they meet her standards. She is quite efficient at it too.

Janet will probably not last long around here. I’ve already heard some mumblings from the computer security folks about wanting to get rid of her. Guess she is making them look bad, a new kid like her who seems to be able to worm her way right in. Heck, the way things go around here, she will probably be in charge before we know it, though. That’s the way it seems to go; bring somebody in off the sidewalk and the next thing you know they are running the place. She definitely does have the sort of take-charge disposition that managers are always looking for.