So, my boss comes in the office. I ask him when he wants to go over the memo he sent me this morning, about increasing the "revenue stream" and what's to be done about my part of the company. He seems to have forgotten at first, then says, Oh let's do it next week. So, what do I make of that. In one way I am glad of putting off what will be a painful meeting with him. On the other hand, I know my product is not bringing in much revenue, and he can't justify my salary from what the product brings in. So, some resolution has to be made. Also, I think he almost wants to avoid deciding what to do about this product I am working with, because he remembers when he bought the company and I was the only other person with the company and he needed me to keep it running while he got all his plans up and running. Now there is an outside investor that my boss is accountable to.
I am gearing up to do more job searching (looking at support groups, updating my resume, posting to jobsites, reading advice on job searching, worst case, looking at unemployment benefits in GA. I think that, finally, I will have to give up this job. The only way I can stay around here is if the revenue increases, which is not likely to happen because the boss doesn't want to put any effort into it and everyone else is working on other products, which he wants to push, rather than mine. So, must be looking on company time, which I don't think is moral, but what else can I do?
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929.
