Buyout #4

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So, my company got sold today.  This is the 4th time in my life that I have experienced a buyout of the company I work for.  Hifi Buys, Crescent Communications, IBM buying Weather.com and Entertainment Studios buying The Weather Group.  The impact I have here I actually got from 1997, HiFi Buys.  In the case of HFB, the company we were sold to nixed their advertising department and defaulted to ours because we had the better infrastructure/digital cameras/team knowledge.  I felt so bad for their team in Boston.  There were only 3 of them, but they were human beings - and I just felt so bad about it.  As Director, I had to go up and pack up their macs in Boston and ship back down to the ATL.  Less than a year later, my team of 6 was on the chopping block.  The company that bought us, Tweeter, had bought quite a few more mom and pop electronics firms around the country, and decided to move their whole operation back up to Boston without our team.  They had already hired our replacements.  We all had to work 6 months through the transition and train our replacements in order to get our severance.  This was a HUGE Impact on me and this is what I got from this situation:  DONT TAKE IT PERSONAL, it's just business.  It is about the bottom line/business growth, not the people.  Once this happened to me, I determined that it is what it is and we live in an age where pensions do not exist.  This isn't the 50s anymore.  It isn't even the 80's, where free wheeling corporate spending like in WALL STREET are gone. 

Your career is just that - YOURS. No one else is going to take care of number one but YOU. So DO it!!!

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