[sfkdjf9j3j]

It would also be weird if managers were to capriciously hand out options to employees as short term performance bonuses.

[Godel_unicode]

Weird, normal-and-accepted, guess it depends what part of the industry you work in.

[sfkdjf9j3j]

You've piqued my curiosity - where is this normal and accepted?

[astrange]

Normally at tech companies there’s a review and bonus twice a year. At ours we only participate in one of them, the other is done by management, and for most of my career ours would just pretend he decided to give us a bonus for our hard work one day. You had to ask around and notice it was always the same week to figure out how it worked.