Takeover
I had a job for a company a few year ago that was unexpectedly sold to a new owner. One day, some men in suits came in and told everyone that upper management had been fired. All other employees were required to undergo job interviews and drug tests in order to determine if they could keep their positions. The chaos was unimaginable.
Upper management began packing up their offices and crying to their partners. The middle management was busy trying to keep the office running while they prepared for their interviews. Four employees were concentrating on the drug tests. One of them even hid in a shed with a 5-gallon water jug from the water machine.
He desalinated his body by drinking the whole thing in a short time. One guy left for lunch with his baby’s urine taped to his thigh. The worst part of all was hearing that I had failed my drug test. I’ve never used drugs in my life so I was understandably angry.
It took me two weeks to be allowed back to work. After that I stayed on for about three months, and then I quit. The new management were terrible and laziness. They would blame everything on the employees, saying things like “If you were all so good at what you did, why had we to buy the business?”
It was 2008, when the housing crash had shattered the market. The original owner of the company was a wealthy man who dreamed big but couldn’t continue to lose money forever. He eventually sold the business.
