Good thing you've been polishing up that resume, right? You have, right?? *g*

That sucks. :( WTF is he moving to Boulder? Everything is more expensive there.

Yes, Dail, I have my new resume around here somewhere. :) I lost the file when the laptop crashed but after some searching, I found a paper draft. Now all I have to do is add the year I spent working for Bernie.

He's moving the company to Boulder, Meg, because that's where he lives. Since he's getting a smaller office, it will be cheaper than downtown Denver.

Cheaper space, sure, until he realizes that he has to hire four people to replace you and needs a bigger office....

Oh, I've been through this before. Rather than hire more people, they'll decide that all of the things I spend my time on that they're so obsessive about when it's me doing them, aren't really all that necessary - not if they actually have to pay extra to have them done.

I've never yet seen anyone get handed my job after I leave a position without seeing the actual work-load get cut by at least 25-40%.

I mean, in this job, Bernie will just hand the reporting back to PoodleBoy, and the box repairs back to Alvin, and he'll get one of his free-lance guys to do the mailings. Then he'll hire someone who will wind up doing 95% of the client contacts, most of the bookkeeping, plus acting as his (Bernie's) secretary--the one thing I've been firm about refusing to do. And he'll think he's made a change for the better.

And, who knows? Shrug. Maybe from his perspective it will be true.