Free Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot Page B

scones to go with our coffee. Some of us were forced to go for Krispy Kreme doughnuts across the street. If pastries continue to be unavailable in the senior-staff dining room, and we are forced to continue to leave the building for Krispy Kremes, HR could find themselves looking at disastrously high insurance rates, due to personnel possibly being struck by buses and/or bicycle messengers while venturing from the building in search of breakfast treats.
     
    Furthermore, the saturated fat content of a single glazed Krispy Kreme is approximately 22 grams, twice that of a whole bag of M&Ms. Continued ingestion of said Krispy Kremes could lead to catastrophic health-care costs asJournal employees are felled by diabetes and/or heart disease.
     
    In conclusion, reinstating Ida Lopez as dessert supplier of the senior staff dining room will save the company millions in health-care and insurance costs, and lower the cholesterol and overall discontent of the paper’s staff. Please do what you can to see that Ida Lopez is returned to her post. Thank you.
     
    Melissa Fuller-Trent
    George Sanchez
    Dolly Vargas
    Tim Grabowksi
    James Chu
    Nadine Wilcock-Salerno
    To: Amy Jenkins
    Fr: Penny Croft
    Re: Ida Lopez
     
    Ms. Jenkins:
     
    Mr. Hargrave was somewhat disturbed this morning when he went to the senior-staff dining room and found that Ida Lopez, who normally supplies and runs the dessert cart, was not present. He was even more disturbed when, upon inquiring as to the whereabouts of Mrs. Lopez, he learned she had been let go. Surely this isn’t true? You may not be aware of the fact that Mr. Hargrave has quite a sweet tooth, and has become quite fond of Mrs. Lopez’s cinnamon rolls. I do hope you can get to the truth of this matter, and let me know when we can expect Mrs. Lopez back at her cart.
     
    Sincerely,
     
    Penny Croft
    Assistant to Peter Hargrave
    Founder and CEO of
    The New York Journal
    To: Mitchell Hertzog
    Fr: Stuart Hertzog
    Re: Ida Lopez
     
    I just received a phone call from Amy. She is extremely upset. She said she just discovered that you’d scheduled a pretrial discovery conference with one of her staff members.
     
    You deposed one of Amy’s employees this morning without checking with me first? After I specifically asked you to keep me informed on the status of the case, you went ahead and saw one of Amy’s employees behind my back?
     
    Don’t think this is the last you’re going to hear about this.
     
    Stuart Hertzog, Senior Partner
    Hertzog Webber and Doyle, Attorneys at Law
    444 Madison Avenue, Suite 1505
    New York, NY 10022
    212-555-7900
    To: Stuart Hertzog
    Fr: Mitchell Hertzog
    Re: Ida Lopez
     
    Stuie, you need to relax. You’re going to have a coronary if you keep carrying on this way over every little thing I do. I can give you some breathing exercises I learned from a yogi when I was in India, if you want.
     
    You asked me to take this case for you, and I did. But if you want me to win it in my usual stellar manner, you’re going to have to let me do things my own way.
     
    What’s the big deal, anyway? So I talked to one of your fiancée’s employees without you—or Amy—being in attendance. What, the world is going to end now?
     
    Oh, and when you speak to Dad about me, be sure to bring up—one more time—the thing about how I totaled your Beamer in the tenth grade. Because I really don’t think you’ve run that one into the ground yet.
     
    Give my love to Mom, too, when you speak to her. Which I assume you’re going to do as soon as Dad doesn’t pick up. You know he never answers his cell when he’s on the green.
     
    Mitch
    To: Stacy Trent
    Fr: Margaret Hertzog
    Re: Your Brother
     
    Stacy, I received a very disturbing phone call from your eldest brother