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After 20 years, engineer Caleb Roark was fired without a handover, despite warning management that no certified successor was ready. He walked out carrying his daughter’s graduation photo and his father’s slide rule in a cardboard box. That afternoon, executives toasted the savings with champagne—until the compliance director called to ask whether Caleb was still in the building.
On a Friday afternoon in late October, Caleb Roark walked out of Hawthorne Dynamics carrying 20 years of his life in a cardboard box. Nobody in the conference room…