a job change

[cellio]

On Friday the company I work for was acquired by a large defense contractor (no fooling!). This surprised me; I didn't know that we were looking to be acquired. It's too soon to say how it will all play out.

I've been casually trying to figure out if this is the largest company I've worked for or the second-largest. Information on how many people worked for IBM (total) in 1994-1995 turns out to be hard to find via Google. (That's when they bought the company I was then working for.)

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[mortuus.livejournal.com]

The company I work for was bought out by a large (and foreign, which is just weird) defense company last year. Happily, it's all been almost entirely invisible to us minions (actually, the fact that they are foreign is one big reason why it has been invisible to us - lots of barriers). They also told us they were looking to sell the company, and to who, before it happened, which was nice (I like knowing what could happen with my job).

[cellio]

A foreign defense company? That would be weird, yes. I once worked for a company that was owned by a Japanese parent and that was sometimes weird, but at least neither they nor we were doing defense work.