I Agree with you 100% But 1. My wife who works for Pepsi Americas (3yrs) is being bought back by Pepsi Co. My wife used to manage a Pizza Hut (13yrs ago) which was owned by Pepsi Co. company. Pizza Huts were sold off as franchises. Being as her employment with Pepsi Co. was not terminated (she was sold off) when Pepsi Co does buy Pepsi Americas. She gets 13 years of seniority and benefits just like that. Works out for the good. But there is a lot of stupid stuff that she puts up with now. 2. My dad worked for Conrail back in the early 80s was laid off a few times, finally tired of it and ended up doing something else for about a decade. Anyway we move back he looks into going back to work for the rail road. They ask him where he is at in the list. Turns out he is the #2 or 3 guy. Long story short he gets paid from the time they refilled his position it was like 9 years of back pay.