> l am an employee and stockholder both. Obviously, I would rather have a job than not but at the same time a significant portion of my personal wealth is in MS

> l am an employee and stockholder both. Obviously, I would rather have a job than not but at the same time a significant portion of my personal wealth is in MSFT stocks. There's something especially perverse about compensation for employment coming in a form that companies grow in value by terminatkng employment. Ostensibly the point of stock compensation is to reward doing work that helps the company, but instead of provides cover for the company to leech the potential compensation employees would get in salary to grow the value of the stock with less pushback from those it literally is taking the compensation from. People often decry stock-based compensation as "golden handcuffs" that stop you from leaving, but perhaps the more apt metaphor would be a golden guillotine; they'll have you cheering for the executions right up to the point when your own head is on the chopping block.