Definitely agree. In my role it effects my day to day work (sales cure all, etc). And it's definitely a little different when folks have stock. I mostly work in

Definitely agree. In my role it effects my day to day work (sales cure all, etc). And it's definitely a little different when folks have stock. I mostly work in an industry where the average employee has no stock or options. They may be curious, but they don't really ask many questions unless there has been a sizable culture of that. Otherwise, it's like talking money is bad manners. Options and the various schemes can be confusing. What's worse to me is many people in middle manager type roles that run a department/unit, are responsible for a budget, they can not read a basic income statement. They don't know how or what levers move the needle or in which direction. Some are very good, but many are very, very bad given their level of responsibility I've seen. I've been in many meetings even in my days as a junior analyst explaining to seasoned executives how volume doesn't cure an issue with unit economics. Separating out variable costs and explaining that if you can't cover those, you'll never cover the fixed costs... Those types of things. It's job security for me, but still shockingly common.