The owner continues to give me dark looks whenever he catches up with me at either office.
He acted strange before his trip to Europe, but then seemed fine again the day after his return, prior to finding out she had resigned. Now he’s back to acting peculiar again, suspicious, the way he acted when he searched my computers – as if driven by the need to find something.
He seems to be acting in a vacuum, and not just suspicious of me. He seems not to trust our former temporary boss either, which may explain why he keeps him in the dark about much of what goes on, even sometimes when it affects his job. knowledge is power and keeping other people in the dark is an art form in this place.
While the owner has always been somewhat nasty to those who work for him, he seems worse now, deliberately putting distance between us, almost as if he’s distracted.
He goes out of the main office more often, and sometimes does not come in at all, skipping the staff meetings which in the past he used to criticize people.
I can’t put my finger on any of it, and do not know if it has anything to do with her leaving since he’s been off the deep end since mid-summer, and it may have something to do with his home life, or some financial issue with the company.
He did seem concerned about the whole RR situation, but not in a way that I would have expected. He seemed perfectly willing to let her run a story that accused a sitting governor of a crime without any charges being filed, all based on RR who didn’t even want his name attached to the story, nor have any of his background used – something our owner would never have done with any other writer, yet was willing to do with her.
Her sudden resignation must have confused the hell out of him.
I had presumed that the small man had spoken to our owners, and they had put pressure on her to resign. Now, it’s clear, the small man only met with her, and she told the owners the same fib about getting a job on TV somewhere.
Her resignation killed any hope for RR of seeing the story published, which was the goal of the small man, no doubt, protecting the congressman’s reputation, regardless of whether the accusations were true or not.
But the small man must have said something else to her, used some other kind of leverage for her to agree to resign.
Whatever it was, he didn’t tell me.
And since he said nothing to our owners, they are even more confused by it all than I am, puzzled at her sudden resignation, which may explain the fog the owner has been walking around in since finding out.
Maybe after this, he’ll stop searching for stuff on my computers.
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