I think my boss may have lost his mind.
Don't get me wrong, he taught me almost everything I know about computers that actually has a real life use. And he's the only person I know that manages to start a marginally successful business that actually cares about the clients and honestly wants to solve their problems while charging as little as possible. On top of that, if the problem isn't completely solved we don't charge again. Every other place I've seen charges at least a small surcharge if the problem isn't completely solved and the computer needs worked on again. I worked with him before at a previous store and think he's a pretty stand up guy.
However, this company is now 3 months old. The company consists of me, him, and our CFO who is at the store only once a week (he contributes financially though). My boss is now going on tour, he's also a Jazz Guitarist. He will be gone for 3 months. Leaving me to run the entire business by myself. We have 2 big clients one of which we just replaced the server for on the other side of the state, there is bound to be problems, which I don't really think I'm qualified to handle. There is also one more buisness client that wants us to set up the same thing for them. Up until now he has been handling it, and I have no idea what is going on with it other than that some time in the future we will get a new server to configure and install for them. I don't know how it needs to be configured, but I guess I'll need to figure it out in the dark.
During all this, the store is also a housecall shop. And we are still advertising as such. Yet I don't see how I'm going to both be doing housecalls and being in the store during operating hours. Especially when I'm likely going to need to make multiple 4+ hour drives back and fourth across the state. There is no-one else available to watch the store with him gone, it's me or no-one. The only time someone else is available would be on saturdays, and that someone won't always be available, and doesn't know the first thing about doing what we do.
There is also a lawsuit in progress where our company is suing another for refusing to pay for services rendered. Which with him gone I'm also probably going to be the one the lawyers speak to. And that happened before I came on. I don't know the first thing about the suit or even who it's against.
I'm getting depressed about it. I loved this job, but it's looking like it's going to go down the tubes. Because the owner (and only actually certified technician) just seems to be abandoning it. He claims he isn't and says he's just a phonecall away if I have any problems. Am I wrong to think he's out of his mind for leaving the store for such a long time so shortly after it opens? We seem to be in the black for the moment, but we don't exactly have much of a buffer to work with, and there are about a hundred things that could go wrong and put us pretty deep into the red.
Oh well, just throwing that out there. Feel a little better I guess. I think all I've really been doing lately on this board is complain and whine about things lately.