My situation is basically this:
X Months:
The company I work was acquired and we were promised autonomy, nothing would change, etc. verbally.
X+6 Months:
About YY people were laid off as part of a cost cutting/restructuring measure. They are being replaced with cheaper people on the opposite coast in "small town" america. I don't want to live there. I know that already.
I read this as the accountants at the acquirer are squeezing our budgets and decided I'd send out resumes. I wrote a quick code sample in Python/Flask because I was curious if I'd like Flask and tossed it on a completely uncurated Github [its jut random stuff I've reported issues on/messed with].
X+7 Months:
My boss, the CTO, is a good guy and I think he is trustworthy.
There is a critical part of the infrastructure I "own". He brought up hiring someone to work on it awhile back and I asked him whatever happened with that and he said he had put it off because he was busy. I hinted he might want to look.
He asked me why. Being the honest idiot I am, I told him I had a couple interviews and the whole lay off thing makes me uncomfortable.
He told me he valued having me around and he'd find the budget to match whatever offer I got on the interviews I'd scheduled if I didn't send out any more resumes.
I think if I took the offer...it is too much like using your ex girlfriend to make your current girlfriend jealous and more pliable. I think it'd damage the relationship enough that it would be a short term win for me but ultimately I'd end up unemployed [at least temporarily] whenever the first budget cut hit the IT department.
So what does HN think I should do in this situation?
Thanks :)
