Suspicious huh.
If you both think it's a great idea today how do you explain it wasn't done in '64 when everyone was still alive?
The manager leaves his shop unattended and gets promoted?
Was it a reward for saying the correct (in the eyes of the WC) things? I wonder what he was doing that he was expecting to be fired?
He received an award a few years back I believe. Probably an award for saying what the WC wanted him to say though ....