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Since this is really play money for you - to the extent any money is - let's play with it.
Take the $40K. Use it to buy Shell stock. Sit on that stock for a time period equal to the duration of your employment. Keep us posted. Then sell, regardless of market timing.
Keep any profit for yourself.
Send the original $40K to either an environmental charity or a university department that specializes in harvesting petroleum natural resources - whatever you are comfortable with.
If the net after sale of the stock is a loss, keep whatever remains, safe in the knowledge that you tried to let the company do something charitable with your extra salary and they couldn't turn a profit - so 'eff 'em.
[note: this is clearly not a sound ethical argument - but I thought it would be more fun than the typically bravo sierra responses that any ethical question would garner.]
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