Microsoft's chief marketing officer Christopher Capossela, who just cashed out $4.4 million worth of stock, told employees angry about lack of salary raises that their best way to increase their pay is to make the stock go higher, according to screenshots of an internal conversation viewed by Fortune.
"The most important lever for almost all our employees' compensation upside is the stock price," Capossela wrote in a chat with employees last week on an internal social networking tool called Yammer. "So great quarterly results contribute to making the stock attractive which in turn drives everyone's total compensation up."
