My stock options should have materialized this spring, and I planned on buying a nice home somewhere.

Now its all worthless.

And I wanted to buy my wife a new car as a wedding gift....

*sigh*

Anyway, I'm still employed which is more than many of my friends got.

I worked very hard to get to where I am today.
I made some very good choices (like starting to work at 14 to buy myself a computer) and I worked hard to make my dreams happen.

So I'm proud of every cent I have, and dislike it when I lose them.
The money I lost wasn't a gift - it was hard-earned money.

Would you feel "amused" about workers fired from any losing enterprise or is it just from the hightech industry?

If the goverment would fire 5000 workers, no matter how high earning, non working they are the entire country would be on strike.

I wonder what is it about high tech workers that people just love hating.

They don't love hating them - they envy them. The salaries, you know. The supposedly easy money and all that.

Not really, many companies manage to bootstrap themselves.

Hightech company - like gilat, and low-tech companies like Ben&Jerries.

You start with two people and little money, and grow as you earn more.

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Care to explain this accusation?

Yes, but the economic growth of the last few years benefitted them, not to mention that there were more available jobs, for everyone (people had to clean those offices and all).

So it evens out.

When the economy is good everyone wins, and when its bad we all lose.

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