The "Bill" Person sounds very much like my CEO, the only reason he got me the appartment and paying utilities was to
1)"help me out"
2) didnt want me to leave the company, and move with my family
My ceo is the kind of guy who makes a great programmer, but a poor manager(IMO), idependantly wealthy, he wont buy anything expensive, unless he can either show it off, or brag about it. (there are times he brings me back in his office to show me his new digital camera hooked up to firewire, funny thing is, both products are what "I" recomended weeks before)
Also if there is a group conversation, he HAS to be the star of the show, if there is something interesting about yourself, he has to be the one to mention it.
I feel wishy washy about him, there are traits that can make him a complete a***le but then there are those other traits that are nice to know, in general he's ok, but if something stands for accusations it's never his or his wife's fault (go figures) and has often acused people.
For example, I rember having 1 can of compressed air in the office, it got used up, over the course of a couple weeks, now for some reason he belives he paid 8$ for each can (he thinks he bought 2 cans) and was accusing people of possibly feeling the need to take the extra can.
It's just little things, well the good news though is that he gave me a 1500$ bonus this week on my paycheck in "appreciation for helping the guys" (refering to my 2 new co-workers who are still trying to get the knack)
The legal issue is I want to be sure only if ...
1) I have to quit
2) I get terminated
as long as I can hold the job, I really dont mind too much (the bonus had some influence on my opinion, which obviously shows the slight tension money can cause)
Just to clear things up and all.
he gave me a bonus, so I have to be doing something right.
Karl
kb244@kb244.com
Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)