You should try an orange . <| sep |> We were still good then . <| sep |> Hmm I find this story highly unlikely if it happened in the US after 1934 . The Scope of Securities Exchange act of 1934 , section 10 b includes a rule called the Short Swing Profit Rule which states that insiders officers and directors who own more than 10 % of the company must disgorge profits on the purchase or sale of their own company ' s stock made within 6 months . In other words , if the officers and directors were dumb enough to make this move they would get all the profits taken from them , and could possibly face criminal and civil charges for insider trading . If they did this and there was no SEC investigation , then that ' s incredibly fucked and I ' m sorry your employer screwed you . However you might have grounds to bring a civil case . Please correct me if my legal interpretation of this situation is incorrect , but to my knowledge it is