Deadlock

I remember, back in the Australian winter of 1990 when I was studying 6.723 Concurrent Programming in my university, we had this Polish lecturer, Jerzy Orschowski (something like that lah.. I cannot remember his exact name) who taught us that subject. We used the ada programming language, and one of the topics was about "deadlock".

I am now in that situation.

Just had a conversation with the partner who's chasing that same portal project that I have possibly brought to the brink of securing.

He's asked me (he said), as a friend (he said) to consider 1 of 3 options:
1. Stay on
2. Extend my stay for 2 months and transition later
3. Leave, but will be disastrous cause we have to break the news to the bank before our "interview" on Thursday.

Sigh.. he did the expected "you brought us to the brink of securing this, you built such good relationship with the bank..."

But he was also frank with his "ya.. I know this win may still not get you any closer, but I was hoping by staying on you can see the goodness of the firm..."

My sugar levels went up a couple of notches.

I don't know.. I could be a pure bastard and say Option 3.. but deep down inside, I'm a softie..

I told him "I'd really like to help you convert this, but not at my expense. Perhaps we can consider me partiming, maybe go over to my new co, but still be left free access to the firm's resources like email, etc.. so i can plan the transition.."

The saga continues...