[felix]

Regardless of whether or not one feels he's deserving of this - it's the payment all parties agreed to. Do companies now consider compensation notional? Should they be able to take it back whenever they feel like it? If they think that actually a chef was totally useless for the first year - why stop with options - why not make him pay back 50% of his salary?

This whole line of reasoning is senseless. Compensation was agreed to - that in the end Zynga valued their options less than they ought to have should be irrelevant to employees retaining them.