Stop in for a cup of coffee

This stupid company is killing me. Their deal with the Chinese buyers has slowed to a crawl, and no chance of closing by the end of the year. Which means, any severance is delayed until after the new year.

Then the CEO last night wrecked his back on air flights and is out of commission (couldn’t happen to a nicer asshole) and sends his Chief Medical Officer to Australia to cover the shareholders meeting for him. Now the CMO is pinging me from down there desperately to support him to be prepared for the meeting.

Add to that, the Chief Operating Officer is suggesting stupidly risky strategy and the Senior VP of Regulatory is asking me how to do her job and which decisions to make..and I have to corral and refocus them.

Jeezus...look guys, you want me to bail you out? I get $500/hr to answer your questions (any part of an hour gets billed as a full hour). You want me to be a constant resource? The price is 30% of your pay...and you do the work, I only advise. Between the 3 of them it would be over $350k per year on top of my current salary.

I am so sick of this ****.