>Management will have known about the cash crunch or should at least have anticipated it was a possibility for a while now, and should not have set expectations

>Management will have known about the cash crunch or should at least have anticipated it was a possibility for a while now, and should not have set expectations that they were unlikely to meet. As user bspn has said before, this is a bad sign. If the company has good financial management, they have seen this coming and chose to inform its employees very late (which is bad). If the company did not see it coming, they have bad financial management (which is also bad). So yes, from an objective point of view it surely cannot hurt to start looking somewhere else.