I lost my login for the community page and wanted to respond to Blu's post about the job thing.
I just went through the exact scenario. Four months later, they fired the guy and gave me the job. When talking with my bosses about everything, one of them said, "Man, I can't tell you how much I wish we would have put you in that position . . . " and I interrupted and said, "When I asked you to?" . . . and he sat there for a minute, laughed and said, "Yeah, when you asked. Boy was that a mistake."
So . . . I feel ya (as Omar would say).