Sweet.

For those of you who didn't see my previous post, my work announced last month that they'll be shutting down all of our branch offices and moving operations to corporate headquarters in Cleveland. They also offered me a position with the company there, and next Tuesday the corporate headhunters are coming here to Seattle to make me an offer.

Well.

Early this morning I got a phone call from the vice-president of a company who represents a new account for us. He asked for me by name, and then asked if he could have my last name for his records. Thinking nothing of it, I gave him my name and wished him a good day.

After lunch I came back to find a voice-mail message on my machine from the vice-president of sales from our company. Seems the gentleman who called me earlier today had a meeting with our sales staff this morning. Seems he wanted to impress upon our sales rep how pleased he was working with me, and how the service I'm providing and the knowledge base to problem-solve their complex issues is better than he's ever received.

Seems they took us off probationary status (i.e. 30% of their business to 100% of their business) and specifically mentioned my name as one of the reasons they made the decision.

All this exactly one week before entering negotiations.

If I could have planned it that well, I wouldn't need to work for someone else.

This could get interesting.

Joseph Haines, signing off from The Edge of The Abyss.