[Nine, Frau!]

I was wondering if someone might have any thoughts on a situation I have. My company has an employee stock purchase program where workers can buy stock at a discount. Our stock got really low and the time to buy in the program arrived. Instead of letting employees buy a fixed number of shares, they kicked everyone out and refunded the money. They also revised the plan so no one could buy more than 5000 shares, which implies we could have bought that many shares when it was very low. Anyway, the stock is back up now and there are lots of people at work stewing about not being able to buy during that offering period. I bought some outside of the program on my own when it was low, but lots of my coworkers did not. So what do you think? Is there anything we the employees could do or say about getting kicked out of the stock program when the shares were super low?