A long-time in-plant manager reminisces about his in-plant’s fate after his company merged with another.

By Mike Renn

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Staff could have been cut, but most of my staff had been with me from the beginning, and I wasn’t going to turn my back on their contributions over the years. We all felt like it was our business. We would all stand or fall together. We were a family—dysfunctional, but a family.