Well, the talk with the new boss went just fine. He did clarify the one concrete question I had (there’s not much point, in my opinion, about asking things like, “What’s going on, what’s happening, when’s it going to happen,” because any answer he’d have would be relegated to what he was *allowed* to tell me, which may have very little to do with what he knew), which was whether he was thinking in terms of hundreds of actual, individual client sites, or hundreds of cobrands. He seemed surprised to hear that most people had been interpreting ‘hundreds of sites’ as ‘hundreds of cobrands’, and said no, he was thinking in terms of hundreds of individually contracted client sites. Which seems promising, to me.
I suspect we are going to have to shift our perceptions of what CHI does, perhaps fairly significantly. Which is too bad, because I like what CHI does. On the other hand, as long as they keep paying me, I’m not sure it matters *that* much to me. This is a good job; in some respects, it’s a great job. But it’s not something I wake up excited about every morning, and if the parent company thinks we need to change our approach to become a money-making venture, hey, so long as they keep me on as part of that money-making venture, I’m good with it. And for the moment I don’t think our jobs are going anywhere, so hey, let’s just hang out and see what happens. What’ve I got to lose? :)