> However after two years, and a few splits, I have 128 shares. You're not a "4 shares employee" you're a "% of the company employee". The 4 shares are worth

> However after two years, and a few splits, I have 128 shares. You're not a "4 shares employee" you're a "% of the company employee". The 4 shares are worth some percentage of the company and after all those splits they're still worth that same percentage. Splits usually happen to get the cost of the overalls hares down but a $1m holding in some stock is still worth $1m after the split. >But the fact is that you are a 4 share employee being paid 3000% of what you were hired at. So what! This is the point of accepting stock as compensation. They worked below what they were worth for the hope that they would win the lottery. They did win the lottery and now the company wants a redo.