The other side happens too: my business partner, early on in his career, interviewed and was hired into a video-processing software company. He shows up, the b

The other side happens too: my business partner, early on in his career, interviewed and was hired into a video-processing software company. He shows up, the building is empty but for a secretary and one guy on the third floor. A Japanese company had bought them for the customer list, and they were now just to support folks locally. He quit after a week or two, after finding a real job. Some time later he met the guy who had interviewed him, and asked about it. His response: "I lost my hiring referral bonus when you quit! I'll forgive you for quitting, if you forgive me for hiring you!" See, the guy was already half out the door when he hired my partner, knowing he would report to a nearly empty building. That was 20 years ago. Stuff like this has been happening forever. I guess now its on a production-line basis.