I’ve been working for this company for 13 years, when I started they didn’t have a IT department let alone a network. About 10 years ago I more or less took over the duties myself and began doing all the IT work, and over the course of one summer I had networked two buildings separately with a fddi link between them, installed 25 desktop computers, 5 servers and added 10 notebooks.
Everything was going well through the years, I got upgrades when ever I felt the network needed it, replaced desktops on a 4 year cycle, replaced the servers on a 6 year cycle, did a conversion of our MIS solution from unix box the a SQL box. Flew out to Vegas on a yearly user conference for the MIS solution we used, I know, sounds too good to be true, well it all came to a screeching halt 6 months ago, we were acquired by an investment group, but before this had happend I had been interviewed by different people from this group, and came away with a feeling that I was going to be getting a very nice IT budget; NOT!
I have submitted 3 projects in the last 6 months that are needed, plus my user conference is no longer an option. It seems like they have invested into the company, but not the IT deparment. Has anyone been through a acquisition and is this normal? I been thinking about jumping ship and getting the blazes out of here.
