Probably fall from roof few times or was not really handy with hammer or something.

The company is quite fascinating, they started around 1945 and during the years they've became small conglomerate. There are three or even four generations workign together and once they like you as a person they will find something for you to do.

Is the original programmer still at the company in any capacity?

No, he left before I was hired as a consultant. I had never get chance to talk to him in any form. I am the single person who ever touched the source code for past 10 years. I don't know why he left or where he went.

From my experience this means they had a strong union.

Perhaps he played too much Minecraft and tried building a Turing machine from the materials on the construction site?

C can't be that different from redstone right?