Leaving the job in a few months and debating if I should let my boss know my feelings for him. He’s one of the nicest human beings I ever met. He’s kind, caring and acts very protective of me. And whenever we had a conversation, he’s either gaveme a long and intense stare or acts awkward/shy/avoid eye contact.
Recently our company got bought. He called me as soon as he finds out when it’s supposed to be highly confidential and a lot of my other coworkers didn’t even know yet. He even warned me to start dust off resume and offered to pass along to his contacts. Last week I joked with him if I am getting the green light for job search now, he suddenly acted like he doesn’t want me to look for jobs now and said things like he really enjoyed having me on the team and still wanted to work together in the time being and maybe there will be some opportunity came along if we are patient..
But then he said with all that being said, he wants me to be happy and would fully support whatever decision I make.
I told him that I enjoy working with him and want to be on his team but there’s so much uncertainty coming in the future and he was honest with me that our company will be absorbed, and even him is reconsidering career choice and he even helped me lined up an interview….
We had an awkward/sad silence then he said something in the lines of once he figure out his next move and is building a team again, “ shit, I am going to come find you..” I was honestly shocked that he actually said that. When he first gave me the news, I thought he’s just prepping me for future layoffs/cuts.
After we got off our call, he wrote an email to the whole department to acknowledge my recent work.
I am super confused. Idk if he’s just being a nice boss? I never had any colleagues that went out of their way for me like that. And there are tons of small things that I pick up, like he will giggle at certain things I said, sometimes over apologizing / super attentive/accommodating to my feelings and constant praising.
At this point I just really want to come clean before I leave but at the same time I am thinking maybe he’s just a nice guy and there’s nothing more to it….