Back when I wrote this post, I said parenthetically:
(If we get a contract by this Friday, I'll stay.)
Well, we don't have a contract, but the boss told me on Friday that our illustrious CEO's secretary had finally contacted him, and the CEO wants to meet directly with my boss on Sunday (technically, today as I write this). The boss does better with the CEO when they meet face to face because the CEO lacks the spine to act against the boss when they're in front of each other. So there's a chance the boss might wrest another six months from the CEO, in which case I guess I'll be going back to work, as if nothing happened, for another six months. But for me, it'll only be six months. The company obviously doesn't want us, so why stay? And I don't want the boss to use this probable reprieve as an excuse not to do anything about making his new company while we work on finishing the current series we're working on.
We'll have to talk about all of this on Monday (although I expect the boss will be calling me Sunday night to talk about how his meeting with the CEO went), but my intention is to quit the company after we do our six months. And if the boss doesn't have a company for me to join this year, then I guess I'll figure things out on my own. I'm also a bit annoyed that, if I do go back to work, I'll have to put self-education off another few months.
It's always like this, every year or every two years: our team gets threatened with extinction, and then there's an eleventh-hour save. It's frankly no longer worth it. I want stability, not the sword of Damocles. Expect more news soon.
Oh, yes, one more thing: it occurs to me that I've been with this company for ten years (longer than with any previous company), and I don't think they've published more than one set of textbooks that I've worked on during that time. And that set apparently got seized by a Korean R&D team and reworked into something both unrecognizable and retarded.
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