The hardest thing is getting my friend to get out of the denial stage over her mother's death let alone this. She has not even bought a headstone for her mother's grave. I don't think she can deal with what that means-the finality that her mom is gone.

What a year for her. No one except a few people and of course our DEA friends should have such a years.

I will stay on her but she is beginning to wear me out with her inaction to the important things.

Wednesday she is going to a company sponsored out placement program over the next two days. The woman running the show said that she was the only one to contact her from her former company.

My friedn and I both think that her former boss wanted to fire her long ago but had to wait for the right moment (the small layoff that seems to be a personality purge) since she mentioned that she is being treated for depression.

She thinks that they have a file on her and things she has messed up lately and they probably do. But this is one of the problems of depression.

We live in such a heartless world with a few eceptions-like you people that post to this thread for example.

Thanks and keep the ideas coming-even dirty tatics that you can PM for that if you want.