Re: The downward spiral to the ground is well underway.
I was working for a small consulting company many years ago and our team had an older guy within the client company as our point of contact for all things technical.You have questions? Joe's your guy. We weren't the only consulting company who were working with Joe. It seems that Joe knew most everything there was to know about the systems and applications that the various consulting firms were contracted to work with. You can probably guess what happened one day just before lunch. Yep, they let Joe go. I'd guess he had a half dozen job offers by the end of the day. (He wasn't hired by my employer.)