Can’t argue with this even a little bit. But I still hope you’re wrong 
Joe
Do you honestly think ANY of those things would have led to the CEO doing an emergency plug in to the beginning of a podcast saying what he did?
What would have been lovely was if Chad had done a final episode, made his announcement and told us a little of his future hopes and plans. Even better if there’d then been a compilation of his best bits followed by a load of ribbing and trash talk, before we all had a bit of a cry saying goodbye and flooded the Internet with goodwill messages.
The brief, terse, statement then radio silence left us stunned, bereft and frankly resentful.
Damn…people are still on this topic?!
It would be prudent to point out you are as well now 
Or he assaulted another employee. plenty of reasons you can make up…
I would be surprised if any of those things ended up being the truth.
Of course, I would not be MORE surprised than Chad being abruptly dumped from the company and podcast. Anything is possible. As the sequence of events we’re arguing over has already clearly shown.
Sorry, I’m not following you. Can you clarify?
Sure. I’m just making the point that the unexpected happens routinely.
Case in point - Chad leaving trainerroad abruptly. I dont think anyone would have bet money before it happened that that was the most likely thing to happen, yet it did anyway.
I think it’s rational to apply the same logic to the reasoning behind the breakup. Just because something is unlikely does not mean it is impossible. And there infinitely more unlikely scenarios than the one, single, most likely scenario.
Maybe the reason was something mundane. Maybe it was something weird. Nobody except Chad, the decision makers at trainerroad, and the people they have told have anything more than a guess.
I thought he got a job with Sufferfest? That’s a no brainer that he couldn’t stay with TR…
Yeap, Neal Henderson needed the help of spin class couch, all makes so much sense now
In that case Nate would have announced the departure in a different way. He would have thanked Chad for the contribution over the XX years and wished him good luck. Or not mentioned it at all.
Well maybe it does have a sinister explanation, I’d just like to understand. I feel like I knew the guy!
It’s a horrible message, because there was zero reason to include the ‘it wasn’t voluntary’ bit. It’s horrible messaging. I feel like TR has really lost its way over the past couple of years. Sad to see.
I feel like some of you may be suffering from the post-race blues after reaching 1000. Should we shoot for 10000?
We don’t know that there was zero reason to include that it wasn’t voluntary. Chad might have done something so bad that TR wanted to disclose it but couldn’t and it was the only way they felt they could distance themselves.
Did you know that you can tap the mute button and never see this thread again?
Joe
As a counter to the narrative that Chad has been scrubbed from everything, Jonathan mentioned him a few times on the podcast today