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Now that I’ve had a few days to digest what’s happened (urp), I think the person who benefits the most from the breakup is, well, me. Julie moved out on the Boss but is still working for the company. Don’t get me wrong; she has the best of all worlds, too. In fact, we congratulated each other today over how much distance we’ve been able to put between ourselves and him.
The thing is, she’s not afraid of him. She doesn’t need him, either personally or financially, and so she can pretty much call the shots. And she’s on my side, so (and here is the beautiful part) I can complain to her about whatever is on my mind, and she can come up with a way to fix it. She’s all creative like that, and sort of motivated to tweak the Boss in ways that I’m not equipped to do.
Right now she’s in Texas and he’s in Sacramento. That’s the makings of a successful relationship. I heard from her almost as often as I heard from him today, with slightly different results. Every time I talked to Julie, a problem went away. Every time I talked to the Boss, either an existing problem got bigger or a new one skulked over the horizon and got in my face.
He was gone for a few days, but he’s come back with a vengeance. And the best part of all this is that he proudly proclaimed to me yesterday that he had warned everyone else in the company not to burden me with extra work, because he thinks I’m getting burned out. (He’s a little bit right about that.) And then today he managed to come up with countless, endless, pointless little tasks that had to be done.
I guess what he meant was that everyone else should leave me alone so he can burn me out all by himself. | 
