I know how you feel. We just got rid of someone in our office that did the same thing. We were all relieved when she finally got fired. She spend practically the whole day chatting on the phone to her friends and when she wasn’t chatting she was text messaging them.. She used up all of her vacation and sick leave by January. Then was gone almost every Monday or/and Friday. What finally did it was she went to lunch one day and didn’t come back then calls around 4:00 and told the boss she had to take her mother to the doctor and that she would be in shortly. She came in the my boss told her she as suspended for 3 days without pay. Then last month, she pulled the same thing. She didn’t come in Monday morning and the boss called her several times with no answer. She calls in on Tuesday morning and tells my boss that she was too sick to call in on Monday. The boss informed her that she was fired. The boss packed up 7 xerox boxes of her personal things that she had at her desk. Unbelieveable! She’s trying to get her job back but I don’t believe she’s going to be successful even if she takes it to court. She always had some drama going on in her life and I called her the drama queen of the office.