GradysGhost

That layoff happened a couple months after upper management claimed there would be no layoffs.

Same here. I left a few months before the acquisition. I found out about the acquisition through a news article, probably on Reddit, and I contacted a friend of mine still working in Support there about it. I had heard about it before he did, which is a strong indication of how bad (and, IMO, propagandistic) communication had become between the grunts, the revolving door of upper management, and the fat waistband of middle management.

Not to mention the love interest relationship, which is basically, "Love interest doesn't trust protagonist until the story reaches a climax and all of a sudden she's protag's girlfriend despite not having any new reason to be that."