The options and total comp troughRsu,dsu,options,whatever. All are created to tie a large chunk of management comp to the performance of the stock price. Which is the ultimate report card. Suck it up kids, all ceos and senior mgmt at all oil companies, and all other companies are compensated the same way. If we do well, they do well. Simple. Now human nature is such that when the stock is getting creamed it's because all mgmt teams are idiots and should be fired. But WHOA! When it's going up,up,up it's because I'm a genius for buying the stock and I deserve a 4 or 5 bagger while management are just overpaid parasites. That about right? If you begrudge the dumb@sses that run ATH a million or two, for god sake don't look at tesla,Amazon,Microsoft,Facebook, etc etc etc. the richest people in the world owe their massive billions to "free" shares. Not because they bought stock in the market. That's hilarious. Just look at Elon musk's comp the last couple years. He's the richest man in the world AND he got one of if not the largest total comp packages on earth. We all sound ridiculous when we whine about comp. if you don't like it, work harder, be smarter, and get their jobs instead of whatever you're doing now.