Does this surprise anyone? With the demands to replace the NC being met with a back room agreement to let them remain with a “firm” deadline, of course the company is going to stall in an attempt to draw the process out as long as possible. PM can’t get an agreement by May (was an impossible goal) then we cue the replacement process, spool up a new team, and maybe get worked back into the schedule in a reasonable time period. Company just bought themselves another year or more at 2015 rates.

The better solution would’ve been for PM to have kept his word and stepped down last summer after the TA failed like he said he would. We would be close to finalizing a new NC and maybe a new MEC at this point. Instead, we have done nothing but delay the inevitable and the company wins yet again.