An employee = singular
they = plural

i know it's somewhat acceptable in common parlance to use the third person plural as a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun, but it just drives me nuts. not that the alternatives roll off the tongue (just how *do* you pronounce "s/he"?), but i have strange ticks.

i'm not a grammar nazi, as evidenced by my difficulties with capitalization (i'm selectively lazy); i will, however, spread for a man who knows how to use adverbs!