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times during spring 1994, that there were other secretaries in the department making more money in positions for which she had applied. Mr. King had gently explained that they were hired into a higher personnel classification, had college educations, had more job skills, and were chosen over her. He suggested she make herself more marketable and encouraged her to work on finishing her two-year college degree. Mr. King noticed that during the summer Miss Freeman's motivation continued to decline. He caught a lot of her errors and repeatedly had to return her work. One of the things they worked on was the County HAZMAT (Hazardous Materials Plan). Mr. King described how he noted revisions in red ink in the margin in the previous edition, and asked Miss Freeman to make changes. She had previously helped put the document together and was very familiar with the format and she knew the necessary compliance criteria and protocol. He discovered she reorganized the whole document into a very unacceptable, non-standard form, and then was unable to correct the problem. He had to give it to someone else for the corrections. He considered that incident a gross violation, but didn't give her any type of formal warning, simply told her she needed to pay better attention. As the summer wore on, Miss Freeman's work continued to decline; he met with her several times and told her something had to change. He asked her very good friends in the office if there was anything at home of concern to her, and'they`s'aid they weren't aware of anything going on in her life, but he wasn't the only one to notice she was struggling. Again, on September 20th, he discussed his concerns with her. He pointed out several specific problems to her, even simple things like putting paper in the copy machine, seeing that his correspondence went out daily, and keeping up filing. Miss Freeman admitted she was working- below potential, remembered being cautioned the previous week, and reconfirmed that she would try harder. He also gave her examples of several other things he expected her to do over the next few months. In addition, he encouraged Miss Freeman to spend some time reading their desktop publishing book. He had concluded their meeting by saying that the infractions were not individually significant, but they occurred repeatedly, showed a trend, and something had to change. Mr. King explained that Miss Freeman was scheduled to report for work at 8 o'clock in the morning to answer the phone and get the office going, before the others arrived at 8:30. Her workday ended at 4:30 and the others stayed till 5:00. 11 �� acoK 94 F.� � �,� 9 April 24, 1995