Well, I'm happy to go with you too. I'd like to meet your friends.
I see. I'm glad that he'll be okay, and either way he's got you looking out for him.
I'm sorry that they didn't give you the courtesy of hearing you out before making a decision. Dismissing your research and your idea out of hand due to the length of your service smacks of cutting off their nose to spite their face. Is their any scope for you to be able to bring it up again? Maybe with the sponsorship - for lack of a better word - of a more senior member of staff? You've been working there a while though have you not? How long do you have to have been employed before they take you seriously? Irritating. I'm sorry Ernie. You're good at your job and it sounds like your mind is being wasted there. Or taken for granted maybe. Your worth more anyway.
Thank you. I trust your insight. I'd like to see you at work. It wouldn't bother me.
I hope I'm not putting too much pressure on you. I'm sorry, I know I'mI come with a lot of I've put you through a lot since we've started spending more time together. I know your profession. I know you're the guy that people go to and I know you like helping people, I know that's the kind of person you are. I know where you work, you know that I spent some time in, there. I don't want you to have to be 'on' when we talk or whatever. I'm sorry that I put you in that position sometimes.
I think I'm trying to say that I don't want to be more of your work for you, and I'm sorry that I have been.