• hark@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The company I work for likes to hold a meeting every quarter to tell employees how the company is doing and they love to talk about the stock price as if we’re supposed to care. Executives get rewarded with shares, not us, we’d have to actually use our own money to buy shares and the number of shares we’d be able to buy with our own salaries would be meager by comparison. Still, they proudly boast about share buybacks, while if you look at the publicly-available data, the execs are selling tons of shares (not just for tax purposes). So they’re using company funds to pump up the stock price while offloading their personal shares. Real inspiring leadership, really drives me to put in more effort so they can get a bigger payout while I and everyone else gets diddly squat.