Dirty Harry, I am sorry, but I couldn't resist this, but when you said every dog has his day, did you not mean something else?. .. .Just a thought.. .. .MP, I take my hat off to you, and it can plainly be seen you are a man of integrity, and it shows with the amount of support you have recieved.. .I have also meet with this type and thank God, in my case her (in)sanity prevailed and she left the company. My experience with management was similiar, luke warm to say the the least.. .. .I feel more for those that follow you, and will have to go through the same experience no doubt, but with more disasterious consequences. I hope you have given enough people the "heads up" for this not to eventuate.. .. .As for the woman concerned, I sincerely hope she reads and knows of this thread and takes kind councel from it, and applies the lesson that she needs to learn. We are all the same professionally and by resorting to gender bias is totally dispicable.