i used to work for an awesome company. for legal protection, let's call it Inca. i loved it at inca, i spent my time learning the trade surrounded by knowledgeable people who successfully carried out their jobs in a supportive and professional manner. inca was well-known in the industry. well known for it's high level of quality service, the honesty it dealt with it's clients and the scale of successful work it had in it's portfolio. i should also mention that it turned over very high amounts of work, made a tidy profit and was trusted by a very high level of regular customers.
we had bright purple vans. customers would say "we knew we could relax when we saw the purple van turn up the end of the street," and that sort of thing.
it was all going smoothly, until it was announced that we'd been bought out by one of our rivals. not just one of the many other companies in the industry, but our most bitter rival; a company known for it's unprofessional work practice, it's bad treatment of staff and cluelessness about the sector. we'll call it pirate AV.
needless to say, 40% of inca staff immediately left in discust. i stuck around with a few others to see how things would pan out. we'd been promised pirate AV were planning to take on the successful working practices of inca, the knowledge of the management and the dedication of the staff. i gave them the benefit of the doubt.
which was a mistake.
it was still shite. they didn't change. treating me and my inca buddies like twatting monkeys; they just carried on as they were but with a £3 million debt from buying inca.
a downward spiral of huge debts, bad management and terrible accounting sent the pirates careering down towards business hell and bankruptcy. i jumped ship well before they revealed they couldn't pay staff. i wrote the letter you can read here, and sped off to work for someone else. someone good. yeah.
that's the last i'll hear of those idiots, thought i.
until friday, when it was revealed to us that my current company (we'll call it moonshine) sealed the deal and bought out pirate AV. hah! we're collapsing the company and keeping all the equipment. hah! but i'll tell you the best news of the lot. the bit that made me laugh like a freak....
pirate AV bought inca for £3 million, the two companies combined (at the time) were then worth about £6.5 million.
my current boss just bought the lot for £150,000. that's not a typing error.
again... hah! shoe's on the other foot now, idiots.
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