The general mess in DBA is progressing. There was a vote of confidence recently, where Sale was so confident that he almost lost it 5:7 (actually worse, if we count the shares), but he looked around at the last moment and voted for himself. Had the vote not been open...
I was thoroughly pissed off with the situation. He already hired his own wife, and then thre other wives of supposedly loyal guys, and was actually surprised then I didn't consider myself bought. No, man, those 1300 marks are well below my real share in the worth of this enterprise and you know it. And I should be happy that I'm in the field at least two days a week, travelling my ass off, while your stupid wife warms her ass off in the office for the same salary as I?
So I composed an open letter, questioning the jurisdiction of the CEO to change the basic definition and mission statement of the company, from "best team in town" to "family enterprise". Something like that is a matter not even for the board, it's for the stockholders' assembly. I printed the letter (on office printers, of course, I owned about 6% of it) and distributed it to everybody, as food for thought for the next assembly.
By the time of that assembly, he had bought a couple of people - I guess Grgi got a loan to buy a new car, Brata, Fefi and Blaža got their wives hired and he had the majority. Next assembly was a very nervous affair, and it confirmed his reign. It was time to go, despite owning a share and having devoted more than five years to build this, it's just that the silent project Vanji and I had going on the side wasn't anywhere near fruition. There was one light moment at that meeting, though...
Brata: how can you, Vanji, go around and gossip behind my back of how obsolete I am?
Vanji: because I can't take you with me wherever I go, but I'll repeat it here so you get it first hand. How many times have you said you won't learn foxpro, foxplus is all you want to know?
What made the whole thing more interesting was that while Vanji and Rade were fired and not working here, not on the payroll, they were still shareholders and were fully entitled to be present on the assembly. As Rade said a few times "my bellyache passed", which is a straight reference to "I don't have stomach for this".