<story><title>Way to build employee morale, Zynga</title><url>http://www.itworld.com/software/223167/way-build-employee-morale-zynga</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gaussian</author><text>Pincus is attempting to make it sound as if he wants to claw back equity from employees who don&apos;t do their jobs.  But if they aren&apos;t doing their jobs, why not fire them?&lt;p&gt;No, it seems to me that Pincus is looking at some people, perhaps they&apos;re middle-level employees, and saying, &quot;you know, that guy might be doing his job, but he isn&apos;t worth $50 million.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, no shit he&apos;s not worth $50M.  Few people are.  But that&apos;s how the fucking game works.  The fact that a Google chef got $20M -- why is that bad?  It&apos;s not bad; it&apos;s cool.  How many Microsoft stories are there about secretaries that made off with $10 million?  Those aren&apos;t &lt;i&gt;bad&lt;/i&gt; stories; those are good stories.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m sorry that Pincus fails to see things that way.  And I&apos;m sorry that he&apos;s decided to shit on a paradigm that&apos;s helped build Silicon Valley.</text></comment>
<story><title>Way to build employee morale, Zynga</title><url>http://www.itworld.com/software/223167/way-build-employee-morale-zynga</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tatsuke95</author><text>Whether or not you think this is ethical or legal (I&apos;m not sure it&apos;s either), the most amazing thing about this is the timing.  I mean, with all the anti-corporate sentiment in the wind, how on earth did they think this would fly?  I can see them getting crushed, not in the legal sense, but in the PR sense.&lt;p&gt;Can people possibly dislike Zynga, as a company, more then they already do?  Between this and Groupon, I&apos;m getting fat from plowing popcorn.</text></comment>