Leaving on a Jet Plane (or more likely a bus)

The newest accountant, and as far as I’m concerned the best one, told me today that he’s leaving next week to go work abroad in Turkey. I hate that. He’s got a new baby daughter and feels, probably rightly, that he cannot earn enough money in Moldova to support her and his young wife. I’m losing a good friend and co-worker, the office is losing a productive and intelligent accountant, and a family loses its father and husband – not to mention that Moldova loses part of its tax base.