Breeding Anger and Malcontent

I currently exist in a really, really strange place-work wise.
Always with an anti-establishment bend, I have waited a long time to post anything about this, thinking that my slant on life was jading some view of reality and making me more pessimistic than I ought to be, but no.
The company I work for is truly broken, abusive, caustic and a breeding ground for anger, malcontent, depression, addiction and worse.

Keeping in mind that I have worked for a lot of companies in my career. Never been much for staying in place long term. My current position I have held for about 3.5 years now (which is rather long term for me), but I am done. I have watched so many good people come into this with positive goals, great attitudes, and the energy to conquer the world. Within 6 months, I have watched these folks turn into abusive, disgruntled addicts, steeped in negativity and becoming more unhealthy with each passing day.

When I started, it was a relatively small company, just shy of 100. We all worked hard to conquer the world, and although it was a lot of effort, it was a community/team/family effort. There was still 'stupidity' and individual angst and a good deal of turnover, but it was different. Not as explosive. Not as depressive. Not as repressed.

Then the company was purchased by a company of more than 30,000 employees. Initially the optimism of having greater access to resources, a more established structure, the notion of size equaling security, etc. brought a wave of excitement for what could come next.
The honeymoon ended quickly, honestly never really even getting underway. When all was said and done, and the dust of the deal had cleared, the staff was left feeling marginalized, ignored, 'backwatered' and unempowered.

That was just over a year ago, and I have watched over 1/2 of the original staff leave since then. Not to move forward or take a new opportunity, but rather to run away from the abusive 'mother' organization.

Draped in corporate cliches and placebos, I see a real evil here. I have watched suicide attempts and self-induced serious illness stemming from depression, and anger. The anger is probably the worst part, since it seeps out and threatens to engulf anything that passes close.

Although these kinds of reactions and issues can occur on some level in all groups and across society, the percentage that comes out of this particular environment is a statistical outsider, begging the question 'what is wrong here?'

I have some ideas on that, but I will hold them for another moment. For now, while I work my way out of the job with as much grace as I can muster, I offer this post as a tribute to the fallen and an accusation of a great wrong that is being done in the world.

Till later,