My drummer has been gradually distancing himself from the band... he is all salty that we don't play more shows... of course, we're all trying to get them, and he doesn't seem to be trying harder than the rest of us. He refuses to practice more than once a week... he says "I don't think we need to practice if we're not playing shows". of course, we're in the middle of learning 2 new songs, which are nowhere near ready, and we can never actually make progress on them because once a week isn't enough. What's more, every time we practice he's the weak link, it shows that he isn't practicing.
Recently he joined another band, he says they don't play great music but they play a lot of shows. Last practice he canceled because he was practicing with them for a show, understandable. But tonight he canceled, with the lamest excuse ever:
Me: Still coming to practice tonight?
Him: Well I planned on helping my boss get his mini bikes ready for his wedding next weekend so probably not
8) Next weekend? Why didn't you say anything until I asked? We have our first festival set in 3 weeks. We need to learn some new material, come up with a set list, make sure we're gonna nail the shit out of it. What the fuck man?
Well, whatever. Me and the guitar player are still getting together 2-3 times a week. Going over there in a minute, we're gonna jam with a potential new bass player and a drummer who used to play with us.
OH SHIT, just got some news. Apparently, I didn't know this, but the corporation that owns the company I work for was going to get rid of our company by the end of next month, and dissolve it, and we all would have been out of jobs. But the CEO of our company (who was employed by the corporation) really believes in and loves our company and got financing/put his own money down and bought us. Apparently the corporation was accusing us of not being profitable enough which is why I haven't gotten a raise or bonus in years, but they force us to use all of their own services and charge WAY too much for them so they can make money from our necessary expenditures (like travel, servers, our accounting system, etc), and they take most of our profits and give them to shareholders. So now, not only am I not out a job (without even realizing how close I was to it

), I should start getting raises and bonuses!

I always thought our CEO was a great guy, but this is above and beyond. He quit the corporation and said fuck you and bought us out from them.

Now we won't even have shareholders so all the money can stay in the company, with a good guy at the helm.
