[GH85Carrera]

Threads like this make me glad I never got on the large corporate hamster wheel. From the outside looking in I have seen several large companies get larger through mergers. And often the few contacts we had at the company get replaced, and we lose a client because the new person has no idea how to contact us for that service. And on many occasions, the few really smart guys that were doing the work get replaced by the bosses favorite ass kisser. One one occasion, the three guys that knew the job the best at one company all were fired. They formed their own company and went on to find new clients, and often the old clients went with them, because they knew the three guys were the brains of the former company. One of our good customers is a company that formed from the smart ones fired at a mega company.