Doesn't correspond with what I've been told. But then, I'm not on the island.

Of course I've known that the staff concerned were thinking of starting up on their own at some point - they discussed it with me last summer and I gave them my blessing. Waiting until I'm away and then leaving goes rather beyond that. A good opportunity to tell me might have been at the staff meeting I held on 31st December when I gave each of them a US$ bonus. And before Steve left us the day before he might have mentioned that he had offered jobs to several of my staff, some of whom accepted, some didn't. But I guess that isn't his style.

It seems from another thread that not everyone thinks that Everett is being treated fairly.

I didn't say that the new dive center isn't PADI approved. I said that if you look at the list of approved centers on the PADI website you won't find it listed. That appears still to be the case this morning.

Brion is indeed a good manager and needs to be, as he has had problems dumped on him that neither of us envisaged.

I agree that we should all try to get on. San Pedro needs another dive center like a hole in the head, but I wish the new venture well. I just don't like the sneaky way it has been created.

No, I'm not bitter, just annoyed. But that will pass.