[bitsoda]

You make it sound as if the employees were all unpaid interns. So long as nothing extra is negotiated at the time of the job offer, then those employees knew (and were probably delighted by) exactly what they were getting. I don't expect my employer to back up the Brinks truck if they get bought out or have a successful run. This sense of entitlement is crippling. The employees were paid, presumably learned plenty, and are better people because of their experience at Digg.

[earl]

Are you unaware that digg was a startup and that employees were given options / equity as compensation? It doesn't bother you that someone in particular got a return on that (supposedly equal) equity while regular employees didn't? Charactering expecting your employer to fairly pay out equity in the event of an acquisition as, "backing up a Brinks truck" is stupid. What part of expecting your employer to treat the boss' equity and the employees' equity equally, where one only earns if the other does, is "entitlement"?

I don't work for employers to become a better person; maybe you do. I work for them for my salary plus the options we negotiated.

And frankly, it would appear that the leadership at digg was crippling, not the employees.