Fired today.  

Senior executive managing an aquired new to the company business in CA
since April. Base company large company driven by financial
performance. Four years out of bankrupcy. Strong desire to go back
public. Aquired by another company on 9/20. Unreasonable established
objectives when started in April.  Difficult integration issues for CA
company well acepted as true by base company. Partial bonus will be
paid on termination. Severence package only two months.  Came to west
coast by self and left family back east for a planned year.

No investigation made of real situation at aquired company I ran. 
Situation very positive at company I was running.

Defeat being snatched from the jaws of victory.

Aquisition of parent company has put extreme pressure to obtain
financial objectives promised by base company.

Phew!  So you were hired to manage a newly acquired business in CA
that had been purchased by the "base company."  Either you were hired,
the CA company was acquired or both in April 2004.  The base company
has been out of bankruptcy for four years.  You were given
"unreasonable" performance objectives by the base company when they
hired you [in April] to run the acquired CA business.  The newly
acquired business did not integrate well into the base company, and
the base company understood this.  Nonetheless, either your company or
the base company or both were acquired by somebody else on September
20, 2004, and the new owner fired you today, presumably based on your
alleged "bad" performance in running the acquired company (the company
that the "base company" bought [in April 2004]).  You are upset
because you feel you were fired wrongly and that you were doing a good
job running the CA company.  Is that it?

Hello ppmm1-ga,

I'm sorry about your situation. It's not quite clear what would
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Good luck.

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