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Originally posted by attgig
so did you work for enron? 
too bad they declared bankrupcy or else you might've been able to file a lawsuit against them.
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Ha ha, no thank goodness it wasn't that bad... just a failing dot bomb. However, I know of at least one guy in the office who was out over 100k of his own personal money, and lost options that at one time were in the 7 figures.
Brings me back to the good 'ol days of the money flowing like water... I was interviewing for a job with Microsoft back in '98 or '99, and part of the interview was giving a presentation in front of about 20 MS employees. While I was waiting to begin, one of the MS guys was talking to the recuiter about how his wife was bugging him to sell his Indy race car. She had told him that if he sold it, he can buy whatever he wanted as long as it was street legal, so he was looking at the Lamborghini Diablo.
I'm glad I didn't take the job (way too much travel), but I always wonder how much I would have been ahead if I had.