Hello JRS, Friday, July 6, 2007, 7:02:24 PM, you wrote:
> I've been thru 3-4 acquisitions or mergers, but it was my company doing the > buying. :) > Perhaps I can help anyhow?? > I had to do the ole "apply for your job all over again bit" 4 different > times in mergers in 15 years... OK, here's the story. I've been with this company as a customer for years. When they were just a little thing, I got on board with them. For many years, I encouraged them to bring services to my town. Finally, I got frustrated and started to look elsewhere. I got a deal that I was going to bring in and as soon as I did, they made the move here. I just dropped my plans and let them take the show. I supported them publicly and privately. I did some outside work for them here and there and it ALWAYS went well. Now, I see just from the size - they are taking my customers from me. So, I contact the big bosses I know and tell them - hey, I have been with you guys through thick and thin. Now, I am seeing my profits fall and my clients going to you. While this isn't deliberate - it's still happening. No sooner do I contact them about all this but I hear through the grape vine they are going to do a "geek squad" type thing. Two things, this would really screw me but this may be my opportunity to get with them. Now some background. The guy I am dealing with... he had made me a verbal promise that he would allow me to provide product and services when they came into town - it never happened. I never went to bat about it - I just held my tongue. Even further back, they were having some issues with services which I was the first to figure out and discover. I talked to them about it but they sand bagged on it and finally I told them if you don't take action, I will by informing everyone of this issue. They took care of it. Last but not least, I managed to successfully penetrate their network and I left little txt files on some bosses desktops for them to read, and how to fix the issues / holes they had left open. Now, this was almost a decade ago. That's the situation in a nutshell. Oh except the guy I am dealing with and some other big wigs, I used to smash them in Quake 2 on my dial up - while they connected to the Q2 server from the LAN. LOL. True story. I raped them. Mind you, I was never cocky about it but I was ruthless. Wife says not to sweat the Q2 thing but I know the guy I will be working with got pissed about it and quit playing. There have been times when they had issues and I helped them resolve them. I spent a day on the phone running tests for them on my end, never asked for a thing - this was only a few months ago. I was just glad to help. It's been a mixed and sorted past, but all the negative stuff was mainly a long time ago. I wouldn't mind working for them. I just don't want to screw myself and regret it. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
