I was in the break room at a former company when one of the warehouse workers who had been with the company for nearly 30 years and who had been through multipl

I was in the break room at a former company when one of the warehouse workers who had been with the company for nearly 30 years and who had been through multiple ownership changes, made this comment to me: “well, the company is for sale again, the are buying Maxwell house coffee”. Within a week I was answering due diligence type questions from “consultant” who turned out to be the CTO of the company that acquired us, and became my boss a few months later. That was 20 years ago. Ever since through the 4 companies I have been through in that time frame, I have always used the break room as the barometer for corporate change.