Pros
Working with the same people as I did with my previous company and working with the same standards and practices as my previous company, before the hostile takeover.
Kontras
FirstEnergy and their "legacy-Ohio-Edison-is-the-best-thing-since-sliced-bread-so-do-what-we-do-because-we-are-too-simple-to-even-think-about-adopting-others'-standards-and-practices" attitude and approach. Cut safety corners and budgets. Zero flexibility. Pile more work on before hiring more people. Waste government money on rediculous amounts of unnecessary contractors because of family ties with that firm, instead of hiring empoyees. They wait until the last minute to spend all their money. They paid less per position than the company they took over so they were upset they didn't get the same salaries. Did I mention they pay below market rate, when you consider their market extends from west most Ohio, to the east coast of New Jersey, and down to the very south of West Virginia, they pretty much set the market rate.