Corporations frequently embellish the truth. Let us not pretend we are so naive that we do not understand that this is the case. Care should be taken when talking about things that people feel strongly about, especially if those people are your boss.

These are hard lessons that everyone who works at a big corporation at a level above janitor has learned within the first year of working there, so to me arguments along the lines of "but they said it would be different this time, they promise" just seem ill-advised to me. As if you are sticking your head in the sand and proceeding as if you can't depend on your own good thinking.