Just gonna put this out, and you can do what you want with it Gary.
Got a call 5 years ago from our then president/CEO and VP of sales. They started the company in 1994, and were down-to-earth easily accesible leaders of a VERY succesfull company that I was proud to work for.
They assured me that nothing was going to change in a bad way. The only thing we would notice is that our benefits would be better, as we were now part of a bigger "family".
As of now, I feel lilke a red-headed step child in a VERY large family. So large, that they dont remember my name or anything ive done for the last 12 years.
Randomly punished(or attempted to be) for frivolous activities like going through a Podunk speed trap or a clerical error on an expense report or inspection report.
Previous management would know that these things were quote secondary to what I actually did for the company, but now I'm just a number like the rest.