[BC] Destroying history

[R J Carpenter]

From: DHultsman5 at aol.com

> A friend  worked as an EE for a large corporation (let's call it 
> Oldcorp).
> It was  acquired by another large corporation (Newcorp) that was,
> essentially, in  the same business.  Newcorp immediately closed the
> company store,  where one could buy jackets, sweatshirts, hats,
> coffee cups, beer steins,  etc., with the Oldcorp logo.  Newcorp
> refused to allow anyone  to obtain any of this at *any* price.  It 
> was
> all destroyed.  My  friend told me that anything with the Oldcorp 
> logo
> was destroyed.   They replaced thousands of perfectly good 
> ringbinders
> in the technical  archives because they sported the Oldcorp logo.

About 5 years ago Staples tried what (I think) was an unfriendly 
takeover
of Office Depot.  It had gone so far that Staple policy books, etc, 
etc,
had been delivered to the Office Depot employees.  At the last minute
the "merger" was turned down by authorities.

According to press reports the surviving management of Office Depot
collected all the Staples stuff and had a big bonfire and the 
employees
rejoiced.