Yes, NWgirl, I did the same sort of thing, made a comment to the company owner in a meeting that "you only need me about 8 hours a week, you just don't know which 8 hours" (my immediate boss/vice president held everything up by not doing his work and then when he was finally yelled and screamed at enough to do it, things happened all together in a short period of time) and suddenly the next day the executive vice president had made me a part-time worker instead of full-time