Post-Merger Chaos and the Ruin of 2 Good Companies
Pros
Good people at the site levels. Safety is given an emphasis. Benefits were good.
Cons
More work is being shoved to site level, yet Corporate seems to be bloated with people. With merger, there is chaos. The focus is achieving the $500 million merger savings promised to the stockholders. Seems as if people have been put into key positions that have no clue what they are supposed to do so the rest of us have to pitch in and do their job to keep things going. Many good people have been let go or like me choose to leave. Others are so busy trying to check off their merger "to do list" as soon as possible that important changes are poorly communicated. Instead of really taking the time to determine what was good about each legacy company and using it to make a great company, the Agrium practices are being adopted without any assessment. Pay raises were 3 months late and the lowest in my 20 year career. The timing was impeccable - a new office building in Saskatoon and the intent to buy the Calgary office building were announced at the same time people found out they were getting crappy raises.