Oh, yeah! Another take over! I remember what happened last month when we purchased another printing company in OK. It was total hell here at work. Phone calls were coming in before we were even informed that we were buying them out. Work was being sent over before we even had a customer list much less the artwork from the reorders. URG! I got one of the bigger jobs that was even new to the OK printing company. Hundreds of cards, 5 different layouts for each division of this company. I would think I had them all layed out correctly and then they would decide I want dots instead of dashes in the phone numbers, or we want the numbers layed out this way or that way. Then I'd have to go in and change ALL these orders all over again. Not hard work, just annoying.
I hope this next conversion goes more smoothly. I don't know how well it is going to work because one big factor, we use IBM's they use Mac's. Should be fun, also they are going to bring over a few of their typesetters and they'll be in another room. I don't think that is a good idea because now you have to go running back and forth just to get questions answered.
I'm excited for my company, they are growing fast in the past couple of months. We have also just purchased the only other local thermography printing company in the area. I'm just concered that they don't plan this out well. I hope this one goes a bit better. I'm not looking forward to the weeks of overtimes along with added stress.