RE:penny pinching is great IXL Mr. Brown, not trying to be disrespectful, just looking for silver lining in all that is going on.
Hope we get Christmas gift, and they at least confirm the proof of concept from work done this summer/fall. I am as impatient as the rest you, just ask my wife. Proof that his plan is real would go along way.
I try to put myself in Robin shoes, if the two most import things that I Hang my hat on aren’t available, I would probably go silent as well. Sometimes if you got nothing new to say, better off to say nothing.
You could replace him with an MBA fresh out of Harvard and listen bullSh*T for the next 6 months, and watch him run up his expense account.