Michael and Ethan broke down and told everyone the news—we have NO money. They made sure Dad wasn’t around for the news, which was nice. We’d more or less suspected this all along, so in the end it came as no surprise. Suddenly Microsoft doesn’t look so bad. How could we have been so stupid to leave? Microsoft is a business first and only—not a social welfare state for 13,000 people who lucked in at the right moment.
