[basilgohar]

There is a huge gulch and lag in most businesses between profit and benefit for the employees. Increased profit in the short and medium term rarely goes towards the employees benefit while losses tend to more directly impact employees (layoffs) rather quickly.

Oftentimes profit means hiring more people, not pay existing people more.

[dingnuts]

outside of tech I'd agree, but the execs keep giving me big stock packages (I'm a mid-level at a company you have heard of) and the line going up has pretty immediately paid off for me.

isn't that normal for engineers? the sentiment you're expressing is one I can relate to more for employees who are only compensated with salary

[ElevenLathe]

If you're a mid-level employee at a company on heard of (this describes me too) then I find it difficult to believe that the company stock performance is meaningfully related to your performance. I know for sure that our stock price would not suffer a penny if I dropped dead tomorrow, even if nobody noticed for years and my paychecks kept piling up in my bank account).