You may ask and decision makers quite often will be happy to grant you N worthless stock options for reduction of your today cash rate. You may ask for an actu

You may ask and decision makers quite often will be happy to grant you N worthless stock options for reduction of your today cash rate. You may ask for an actual stock but it still won't be a fully vested grant but some conditional trickery promise. I'd rather take maximum cash squeeze and re-invested [part of] it into some more dependable.