Regarding the sudden firing of my awesome boss at work: I found out what happened today. It's different than I expected. And a little weird.
There was a lot of fighting between him and the company's owner over just about everything. It was cumulative and started about 3 years ago when the owner sent him away from the main office to the Denver office as a way to put some distance between them. That didnt stop the fighting. Things finally reached a breaking point when a supplier sent our bathroom door to Vail, which is many hours away, deep AF in the mountains (the office was also being rennovated very gradually, basically since I was hired). At about the same time, our contractor's "A++" plumbers who tuck their shirts in and look all professional and clean and other things irrelevant to plumbing skill installed the drain trap for the break room sink sideways, and forgot to connect the dishwasher to the sanitary line. Stinky, soapy, wet floor chaos ensued, and my boss and the owner fought viciously over it. Apparently that was what really did it. Things were eventually installed correctly and the bathroom door eventually returned from it's fancy ski-trip, literally the week I went to MFF. But apparently this widened the rift too far.
There's a bit more too, about how the owner was insinuating that the type of work our office focuses on isnt "his vision" for the company, despite being its bread-and-butter (overwhelmingly). So unless the owner goes Full Enron on us, there is pretty solid incentive for him to not close us down.