Originally Posted by
HighLife
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not in a business in which share options are possible or issued as an incentive and so have always been curious as to how these function.
As for the rest of it; worthless ranting provoked by uniformed journalists or journalists who deliberately misinform in order to juice up their story. The addition of the house values of the directors is particularly nauseating and barrel-scrapingly populist.
No probs.
I'd read the original Mail article and thought that even for them it was an apalling bit of journalism. Perhaps my response to the thread was a bit severe ... mpst people don't understand these schemes .... but BA do have enough problems at the moment without their own staff thinking that this is more than it is. I do realise most people take these issues on face value.
This particular offer is not particularly attractive and hardly going to get the juices running. In fact they will only earn (very little) if they get their staff back on-side. Exactly the sort of incentive staff would want their bosses to have.