Suzi, I'm so sorry for your loss.
Kat, that is great news!!
My job has been particularly demoralizing lately. I feel like we're doomed for failure (thanks, in part, to sarameg's employer!) and yesterday my team was told that, basically, the absentee business owner has "no faith" that we can do the job. ugh. It's stuff that has come up before, and I'd already been pretty depressed about my job and the project but I just lost it. And then was told by my bosses that I shouldn't "take it personally." I swear that was the closest I've ever come to straight up walking out of a job. But, I didn't. Instead I texted Bob and he encouraged me to set up a meeting with our head of HR (who is the wife of the owner). So I talked to her this morning which was good. She said when she told her husband that I'd asked for a meeting he said to do "whatever Lisa says" to make it better. I'm one of the remaining original employees (I was like hire number 9 and we've grown to over 300 people now) and she made it clear that they still really value me. I think at this point if I said "get me off this project now" they'd make that work for me. I'm not sure that that's what I want to do though. I've invested so much in the work; I'd really like to see it succeed (unless sara's employers, in league with our fed client, do actually doom us to failure).