About three weeks ago, a big chunk of the company I work for got sold to an australian company for $400 mil. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/cabotcorp-idUSL4E7JP36D20110825
Several employees in the R&D group of that division work at our site, and their lives are obviously going to be impacted in some way, shape or form. One of my good friends at the co., who has over 25 years in is unsure of his future.
It just goes to show how things can turn on a dime. one day you're at your boring ass job and the next day you could be bought out, laid off, moved against your will, you name it. I don't know, it just ilustates to me how much power our companines have over our daily lives. Any one out there who has been unemployed for any length of time knows that. To say the obvious, we take advantage that things that have always been there are always going to be there for us, and it ain't always true. It sounds trite, except when it happens to you.
Good luck to those guys, but something tells me they are going to be just fine!
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