Well, for the most part you agreed to your employer's stock plan when you were granted options, and so you are subject to whatever is in there but there isn't a

Well, for the most part you agreed to your employer's stock plan when you were granted options, and so you are subject to whatever is in there but there isn't a lot you can do about that since you would have already signed it a while back. I would just refer to an attorney regarding anything would modify your shares or the agreement you already signed, because those things can't be arbitrarily modified without your consent. Also, the most common way employees get "screwed" is when the company underperforms and has to raise money on bad terms, but there isn't much you can do about that.