An ex colleague..
If anyone from where I work now is reading this (and I know you do), this isn't someone who worked at the company I am now.

Part of my old job was to prepare some monthly figures for my department. These figures where rather important, as our department got allocated budgets based up them, and any money we recharged to other departments (tens of thousands of pounds a month).

Now, some of the people I had to rely on for the figures where, how shall I say, less than co-operative, and frequently gave me late, or incorrect figures. Something which my Boss knew about, but totally failed to sort out.

One day, I was doing some photocopying. All of a sudden, the boss walks into the print room, starts ranting about the figures and hitting me.

Sadly, for her, the tall, stunningly attractive Blonde woman (who she failed to notice) was the Director of PR. She stepped in, told my Boss to go wait in her office, made sure I was OK and offered to act as a witness if I wanted to pursue charges. I later heard that she talked to my boss, and politely told my boss that things would be easier if my boss resigned.
(Ok, I'll get me coat, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 14:44, Reply)