A company I was doing a lot of work for suddenly got taken over by some other company we never heard of. Didn't feel right. We didn't have this site cited above but we had the internets, so we came, we saw, we Googled, and we found a lot of indications about this new company that gave us much reason to suspect they were only in it for the mailing list, and would soon dump everybody that had been working there for ten, twenty, thirty years. We figured they would act out existing contractual obligations and then the axe would fall.
New Company swore up and down they were not doing that at all, rather that they were moving things to the proverbial "next level". Flew everybody up to the corporate office to sell their case. Demoed their wondrous new software that was going to make expense accounts such a breeze, took us all to a nice dinner and had the new CEO strut back and forth crowing that "you guys are gonna be busier than you've ever been!".
Four months later --- exactly one year after the takeover --- we were indeed busier than we'd ever been, looking for new jobs as they dumped everybody. What we had found from our conspiratorial research and what we concluded from it had been dead-on balls-accurate. Wasn't a damn thing we could do about it at that point but at least we knew by then that it was coming.
