[hinkley]

Can we just stop pretending that everything a buyer tells you in the first year has any relationship to reality?

Stop being surprised. You’re being lied to. You know it, I know it, everybody knows.

They always change things for the worse in the second fiscal year. And unless they bought the company at a discount they always will. The old owners cashed out. They took the money out of the company, and that money needs to be replaced from somewhere. Which means customers and employees are getting bad news.