Thankfully it wasn't a disaster but something went wrong technically with her email and she wasn't getting them. Though it wasn't her fault it caused issues... and that is what they don't want.. issues.

I am starting to think this friend isn't going to make it to retirement. She is growing reckless in her quest to prove them wrong and get out of doing -- what she thinks is - work below her.

I have explained to her a zillion times that she has core work to do that she has been assigned and if this freelancing interferes with that they will end it (or her) and she is already pawning that work off on other people because she got behind on the side work. I am also frustrated that she keeps turning herself into a pretzel to assist a co worker who know would not do that for her.