I'm not afraid to name the company here, companies hate bad PR. Datto, an IT company (specifically an MSP), was recently acquired by another IT company, Kaseya. This company does not have the best reputation online, however they told Datto employees that the culture Datto has created would not be disturbed.
This was a lie.
The main grievance relevant to this post is that during a meeting about the future of customer support in Kaseya, the COO stated that Kaseya was an in-office company. In response to this, a 5-year employee audibly boo'd over the zoom meeting. The COO called this unprofessional but moved on. Later on, an email went out saying that this action was unprofessional and a bad look for Datto(despite already having been acquired).
This employee later went to send a message in the company slack saying that he was being let go for this action. This swan-song message was promptly deleted as it painted Datto and Kaseya in poor light. Their firing flies in the face of the values that Datto previously had. Datto had highly valued transparency and to speak up when things weren't right. An employee spoke up and was fired for it under new shitty corporate leadership. This employee had been working for Datto for 5 years only to be immediately cut down when complaining up the chain once.
Unrelated to the title, but Kaseya also has been extremely vague in the transitions. Every meeting with their officers with legitimate questions about pay, benefits, and the future of the company culture has been largely stonewalled. Kaseya also changed Datto's pride flag logo to a non-pride logo. You could say companies using pride-flags in their logo is largely a PR move, but to those working within the company, this action is still a blow to their morale. This action is definitely deliberate when you look into Kaseya's CEO public campaign donations to many right-wing US politicians.
Many employees have made a list of grievances that we want addressed by Kaseya, however to my knowledge this has largely been un-addressed.
Not much that people on r/antiwork can do about this, but if you are looking for an MSP, shop outside of Kaseya and Datto if possible. And if you were looking to be in the employ of Datto, a few weeks ago I would've strongly encouraged it. Now? Look elsewhere. Obviously the labor force has bigger issues than one company stomping on some worker benefits, but I figured it was good to make this post as just another example of acquisitions being only good for the top brass and not the customers or the employees.
It's important to speak up and not go down without a fight when shitty corporate interests get in the way of your labor and quality of life. If this employee had not spoken up, and if many at the company had not brought up their grievances, I would not be making this post and this anti-employee move would've happened silently. Don't be a cog.
(If anyone at Datto gets punished as a result of this reddit post, I apologize. But the more costly this acquisition is for Kaseya, the better.)