Yesterday I heard something awful. But let me start at the beginning of the story.

Once upon a time L.G. lived in another country on another continent. He worked for Acme and Acme appreciated his work. The company decided to bring him over to the USA to work in the plant that I am now at. L.G. got an engineering management position. Acme liked his work, and shortly they gave him responsiblitly for the entire plant.

In the space of two more years Acme gave L.G. responsibility for manufacturing operations around the globe, including China, France, India, and Russia. For about four years L.G. held this position. But then something odd happened. L.G. took the position he had before. He came back to lead our plant once again. What did this accomplish? Well, it put a buffer between himself and his former boss, I.D. A man who used to report to L.G. was now his boss, and reported directly to I.D.

Then something strange happened again. After less than two years L.G. decided to leave Acme. He decided this very suddenly one week after a visit from his boss. In fact it happened that in the time I.D. held his position, everyone two levels down from him at some point suddenly decided to leave Acme.

L.G. was the last to go. Shortly after that I.D. suddenly decided to leave Acme.

Meanwhile L.G. got another job working for Superhero company. It was a state or two away from where he worked before but it was a job with at least as much responsibility as he had here. It was the kind of job where he could choose not to relocate his family because he could fly back all the time to see them.

And yesterday I found out that Superhero company hired I.D. for a position up the chain from L.G.