Sorry for the delay in responding, I have been travelling a ton over the last 4 weeks...
We have had multiple discussions about his career. He lost his job in 2015 because the company lost a ton of money when their CEO and CFO decided to try to centralize all of their warehouses into one and did not put enough time, resources and planning into the execution and the company lost a ton of business because they could not deliver the product to their end user customer. They started mass layoffs with the CEO and the CFO being their first 2 to go.
Thankfully he has a contract position now and just interviewed for two direct hire jobs, so hopefully something pops for him.