Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 03, 2014

Merger,buy out, or sell out…it’s all the same.

But they make shareholders money and that’s all that counts anymore, so they will always be judged a good thing.

That’s exactly what happens to the company that was bought out.Almost everyone is canned.

But what is that platform the hapless dudes are hanging from made of?

With artists license, aptly put!

The ones sitting at the windows aren’t worried … they have golden parachutes, anyway.

All those people were given the corporate promises of “Don’t worry—your job is safe!” and “We won’t be cutting back jobs.”

That boardroom table looks too big to fail.

Somebody’s cheese got moved.

They didn’t show the second part, with all the employees who lose their jobs so the shareholders and executives have more money.

And they reduce the freedom of the market but you don’t hear free market advocates complain too loudly do you?

It does seem that employees have gone from being an investment, to a resource, to a necessary evil.

The employees are now finding out the company’s been moved to a 3rd world nation where workers can be abused and they’ve all been fired.

Who are the ghouls that do the cleanup?

The problem with mergers is that the estimated revenue never includes the added liabilities; the empty promises of employees who will claim they can do that person’s job then fail to prove it only after the ‘extra’ employees were let go.

“And this is a decision made at {looks reverently skyward} boardroom level.” Cuthbert Rumpold

Resealable Then the company can’t be California based.

It must be just me but, that looks more like a “Post-Merger Fall out.”

StCleve72: No, stockholders don’t count any more than employees. The purpose of a multinational corporation is restraint of trade and money for the top executives (who are really employees and don’t know it). As Wall Street just proved, it doesn’t even need to produce a product or service.

You know things are tough when the CEO’s job just got outsourced to India.

If the aftermath really was just executives being defenestrated mergers would be a much better thing.

@ Varnes: To steal a line from Bogart, “The stuff that dreams are made of…”

StCleve72: On the basis of “net worth”, what percentage of corporations do you really believe follow anything written down?

Reynard61: Which was stolen from Puck’s closing soliloquy in Midsummer Night’s Dream; on instead of of.