>But in a year's time that person has moved on, been promoted, busy with another acquisition, whatever, and now you report to an established and powerful manager in the old company, who doesn't see why you are special or should be treated differently than his or her existing staff. In fact they probably actively resent you; the company buying you at all they take as a signal that existing staff weren't "good enough".
Reading that gave me a since of deja vu. I'm going through exactly what you describe, but it only took 6 months, not a year, to get to this point. It seems like the people running the acquisition actively want to destroy the business they've acquired by making us fit into their 'box' while missing the bigger picture.
Reading that gave me a since of deja vu. I'm going through exactly what you describe, but it only took 6 months, not a year, to get to this point. It seems like the people running the acquisition actively want to destroy the business they've acquired by making us fit into their 'box' while missing the bigger picture.