That's what they all say. "We love you, you're perfect, now change." That's what we heard when the company I work for was purchased by a company with about fi

That's what they all say. "We love you, you're perfect, now change." That's what we heard when the company I work for was purchased by a company with about five hundred times as many employees. The bigwigs came in and said, "We bought you because we could never do what you have done. We don't want to change your culture. You guys are great!" Since then it's been a steady drumbeat of being forced to use their systems and integrate with their processes. Every time we scrap one of our nice, customized, lightweight systems or processes and adopt their crappy, heavyweight, generic, unsuitable processes, our bosses get to take credit for insane amounts of "savings" -- they literally claim we save millions of dollars. So in general they love the fact that we're different, but when it comes to any of the hundreds of small differences between us, it is taken for granted that we must conform to their superior way of doing things. Leaving us to ask, "Hey guys, what difference will we be allowed to retain? Can you name anything that we'll be allowed to do differently from you? If we have to do everything just like you, and you freely admitted that you could never do what we do, why don't you just get it over with and shut us down?"