> And doing it in front of a group of management, no less - that's like firing a shot across the bow, declaring that the current PM team is incompetent.
Always live below your means. Then you can walk out on people when they tell you who they really are. At least then you have a small chance that they will take the feedback for what it is, instead of learning to lie better.
If you quit mysteriously six months later there's no feedback loop, even if you tell them what it is (same human psychology theory behind CI - only immediate feedback is properly internalized)
As it turns out, they were wrong.
The project management was actually fraudulent.