Haven’t gotten a chance to speak with my manager yet. He’s been out of his office practically all day.
[update, 3:21pm]
Spoke to him. He explained that he had thought about it since yesterday. It is a really critical time for the company, and he has no idea what our need for resources is going to be at the end of the year. When our CEO originally floated the rumor about closing the company for two weeks, he wanted no-one in the building. My manager said that right now, he thinks there’s a 70% chance that the company will close — but that means we have two less weeks for testing.
He also said that I put him in a really tough position; that he is a human being too. He’d really like to be able to tell me that I can just go jump on a plane and go home. “When you originally asked,” he said, “I intended to get back to you soon.” He hadn’t because he doesn’t like to tell people no.
The feeling I was getting was that his answer was going to be no, but I wanted him to tell me that, so I kept my mouth shut. That’s probably a good thing, since he went on to say that at the end of the week, he’ll hear the final decision about whether or not the company is closing for two weeks. “You’ll be the first to know,” he said.
Cheers to that.