Poor compensation, lack of professionalism, apathy.
Fleetcor is a fuel card company, plain and simple. I can't comment on how they've dealt with acquisitions in their own field, but I can say that their decisions since purchasing two American telematics companies have been a disaster. They treated us like second-class citizens from day one, they touted our high profitability while forgetting to mention the fact that most departments hadn't seen raises for two years, and on top of it all, they gave to us the burden of fixing their mistakes.
If you work in development or IT, you can say goodbye to your budget. Databases will run out of disk space, hardware will fail, and you will be told that it's not in the budget this year, or ever. And those departments are the lucky ones.
For a short time, it was possible to move up in our company's structure, albeit with much lower pay than market price. Even those opportunities have evaporated. Over the past year, they've opted out of replacing the employees who finally found a job elsewhere, and are increasingly shifting the work to those who stay behind. They compound the loss through attrition by laying off members of departments that are already short-staffed.
Our sister company (purchased from our last parent at roughly the same time) is now operating on a skeleton crew; through disrespect, mismanagement, and layoffs, Fleetcor has seen to it that my former company is going the same direction. I loved my job two years ago, but Fleetcor slowly made me hate it. Your home life will shrink to a memory while you and those you respect grovel at Fleetcor's feet for a 3% raise—if any—every two years.
If all of this sounds attractive to you, by all means, stay with them when they buy you. Otherwise, I suggest you start looking for new employment as soon as possible. From what I can tell, they'll welcome a chance to put some more money in their pockets.
With all that said, it might be worth sticking around to read their 401(k) contribution scheme. You'll need a good laugh.
