It's been a job search kinda day today. I reworked my resume again, on the advice of ex-BossDude. It's funny...as a boss, he was an absolute ass to work for, but outside of work, the guy's got some decent points.

Ironically, he and his wife live on my street (moved there a few years after I did) but we never saw each other outside of work. His wife - who I might add sounds like Margaret from Bob&Margaret is an HR Recruiter. When I was made redundant, he offered for her to help but I was a little too annoyed at him to take him up on it. Finally last week, the anger had subsided enough so I passed along my draft CV. Last night, he called and invited me over for tea and a little advice session. Turns out she is a LOAD of fantastic information, and has even begun helping me in my possible contract work. Ideally, I would love to set up my consulting company but haven't an idea where to start. She had some great plans and ex-BossDude even had some contacts. I felt like I had a whole new lease on life and was extremely grateful I didn't burn any bridges when I left. BossDude is not a good people manager, but as a person, he's not too shabby of a person. It just took getting away from the whole manager/subordinate thing to get that realized.

All goes back to the fact that I was managing our department before he got there. I hated it. I am not a good people manager either, and at the time we had a lot of personnel issues that put me over my head and stressed me out more than I wanted. When the job was to become permanent, I declined stating I was much happier immersed in my numbers, analytics, technical writing and teaching. Having to referee personality mismatches was not my style. When BossDude arrived, he did so with a chip on his shoulder, not knowing how I would respond. While I tried to tell him I was having no issue with reporting to him, he never really accepted it. Thought that somehow I was harbouring ill will. I never did get through to him that I wasn't.

Anyway, in other news, I heard a very disturbing story from a friend tonight. Apparently, when RCMP formal funerals are performed, the widow will get a bill for the costs. She had heard of two such charges - one for $12,000 and another for $9,800. So not small change. I have no idea if it's true or even how I would find out, but distasteful all the same. I truly hope it's just an ugly rumour but I'll have to do some digging here (or if any of you know where to look, or research, let me know!).