Hostile Takeover
The bottom line is that, I'm thankful to have a job. I really do have it pretty good, so I shouldn't complain. The company that I've worked at for a (non-consecutive) total of over 5 years, Yosemite Technologies, was bought out by Barracuda Networks last December. Overall, I would have to say that it was a good thing since YT would probably not have lasted much longer and we all would have been unemployed. On the other hand, there are definitely a few things that I miss about Yosemite. It was a much smaller company that Barracuda- at the time we were purchased, only 35 employees compared to well over 500. When a company gets to be the size that we are now there are certain factors that come into play which are all but avoidable. Communication between departments and remote offices becomes much more inefficient. Many times, it seems like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The strangest thing to me is the fact that I can go to our headquarters