[Craig T]

Originally Posted by KC911

I lived it Chris...you are not wrong

I agree. I lived it too. It was a three month panic cycle of trying to make earnings so the stock didn't tank. Most our income was from shares vesting ratably.

Related story...The company we took public specialized in the prognosis of many types of cancer, as well as a tumor registry and cryo-banking. We were super top heavy in institutional investors (hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds). One morning a University released a paper on a successful therapy targeting angiogenesis in tumors, possible a future cure for cancer. The institutional investors DEMANDED we hold an investor relations meeting. All these arrogant rich Fu@Ks sat around a conference table demanding a strategy for handling this crisis. I stood up and said..."I can think of a lot worse things than your investment crashing because they found a cure for cancer!", and I walked out. I was never allowed to speak to investors after that.

Flatbutt, SKB was an awesome company. My favorite job of all. During the change, the diagnostic division was spun off. All downhill from there.