Buyout #4
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 Bos...