Just found out today is one of the network engineer's that I work closely with last day, and it's actually a shock. So he is French, but has been in the US as for awhile, his entire 5.5 year career here. He applied to have his job transferred to France to move home where his wife moved back to recently with their children. His job can be done remotely and it would allow with the time difference to have him online during hours when others wouldn't (just like we hired a network engineer for Singapore as well so they can work overnight for us). Well, they told him they won't approve it, on the day before he himself finally moves, so he is done here and resigned. I feel like this is because of our new work overlords and the transition period still after the buyout. Sucks. Now they are short a person too, which means it's going to be slow getting my own work done.
Also, my boss got promoted to Director. I'm actually happy about that, I feel like maybe that means with him moving up that there could be room to grow below him, but we will see. Anyway, I guess everyone in the office is going out to either celebrate my boss or say goodbye to the engineer, kind of awkward it seems to me but apparently bottles are opening over there now.