http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/ The company I work for, we will call them SmallCorp, is a $650 Million packaging company that was bought out by a much larger company on July 1st 2002. This is sort of a chronicle of shit that has happened since the new company, we will call them Megacorp, has taken over. en-us 2005-12-06T23:17:30-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2005_12.html#000100 Here is an example of how my company, Megacorp, treats it's employees. We have a operations director who manages all the operation at our several facilities in Canada. He has been with the company like 10+ years. Has moved up... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2005-12-06T23:17:30-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2005_11.html#000099 Want to here about something just so absurd, I could barely believe it myself. We have a sales director or VP or something at my office. He, and a few other people share a secretary or, an administrative assistant as... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2005-11-06T23:12:46-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2005_11.html#000101 More fun from the corporate front. A re-organization was announced a few days ago. Megacorp is going to merge our division with another division. Their division president will take over and already there are positions, redundant overhead, being eliminated. Now,... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2005-11-01T23:35:18-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2005_09.html#000094 Well, our Business Unit president came to me today asking about mounting our portable Toshiba projector on the ceiling. We have one of those screens that drops from the ceiling but the projector is a portable unit and sits on... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2005-09-28T11:04:16-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2005_08.html#000093 If you have been following these posts, you realize that I came from a company called Smallcorp to a company called Megacorp via a merger. Megacorp bought small corp in 2002. Along those lines, Megacorp has been trying to sell... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2005-08-05T10:47:45-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2005_07.html#000092 Well, Megacorp has followed through on the post I had about moving the help desk from Altanta to a rural area of the US. They moved it 3 hours south of Atlanta to a town where, if you look on... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2005-07-18T10:40:33-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2005_04.html#000072 Yes, it has been awhile since I posted. Things here had gotten somewhat quite and just posting the mundane lame stuff was not interesting. But here we have some new stuff. MegaCorp moved their IT Helpdesk a couple of years... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2005-04-16T10:35:27-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2004_09.html#000071 Well, Megacorp.. like most other large US companies, are working feverishly to move as many low paying clerical type jobs overseas as possible. Megacorp is moving stuff like Accounts payable and Accounts receiveable to Hungary. Hungary? Why Hungary? I guess... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2004-09-08T15:37:43-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2004_06.html#000068 Well, it has been sort of quite here at Megacorp. However, things are getting better again. Our group, or division, is supposed to go onto Megacorp's Main Oracle system for stuff like AR and inventory and work orders and customer... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2004-06-03T10:44:55-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2004_04.html#000063 More fun from the front lines of MegaCorp. Way back, when we ran our Oracle system here, we had a separate vendor supply the EDI Interface software and provide maintenance on that software. EDI is Electronic Data Interchange is how... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2004-04-01T08:16:33-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2004_03.html#000061 More saga from Megacorp. Some of our 1-800 lines have been turned off because of non-payment of bill. Now, I have been sending these bills to the folks at the Megacorp headquarters for several months now. About 2 months ago... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2004-03-22T14:11:37-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2004_03.html#000059 Well, it has been awhile since anything really good happened that was worth writing about. However, we have a good one here. It was worth the wait. Megacorp, along with more other large companies, is moving some of it's processes... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2004-03-03T09:30:45-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2004_02.html#000060 I was speaking to one of our Business unit's controllers last week. Their business unit is having great difficulties on obtaining the raw materials needed to make the product they make. Why are they having trouble? Short supply? Embargo? No............ Daily foulups and antics Dave 2004-02-28T09:44:38-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2004_02.html#000058 More fun at Megacorp today. One of our programmers found some corruption in the Oracle database that Megacorp had us move from our facility to their datacenter at the end of 2002. The reasoning was they could manage it better... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2004-02-06T21:43:18-06:00 http://www.wrisleyfamily.com/merger/archives/2004_02.html#000057 Well, today was a banner day. Our office manager/secretary/AP person/gopher/"Insert menial job title here" received a letter from AT&T 2 days ago. It stated that we owe AT&T $40,000 and if we did not pay them by 4 PM CST... Daily foulups and antics Dave 2004-02-04T21:27:57-06:00