Today one of the guys at work told me that he turned in his notice. He turned it in today. After his boss, I was the next person he told.
He's a flaming liberal and I'm a flaming conservative. Despite that, we've developed a good relationship over the past few years.
He's the same age as one of my daughter's. We're both socially/politically incorrect when dealing with each other. He calls me "Pappy", "old dude", "gramps" and other unacceptable names referencing my older age. I call him "junior", "kiddo", "son" and other unacceptable names referencing his younger age.
He's one of the best coworkers I've ever had the pleasure of mentoring in my working history. I'm going to miss him.
Tuesday, management approached my friend with a counter-offer to keep him. He turned them down.
Wednesday, they approached him with an even larger counter-offer to keep him and he turned them down again, he said it wasn't only about money.
Thursday, they approached him yet a third time, this time offering the same salary as Wednesday's offer and asking him what he wanted to work on. He told them he would stay if they put him on the same project I am on, which is the buyout/merger project to integrate the two companies financial systems (immediate need once the buyout/merger is approved), then merging other systems (IT, merchandising, logistics, distribution).
He is staying.
I'm happy because I needed somebody of his caliber to help me with the financial systems integration.
Even though the buyout/merger still isn't approved by the FTC and SEC, there are certain financial system changes required on day one of us becoming a single company that we are already working on them in order to make sure that day one can be accomplished.
