<prompt> Human: My current employer is paying me an hourly wage and an additional 60 shares of class B non-voting rights shares per hour. The shares are valued at 0.20 per share. The company is a startup and the stock isnt publicly traded yet. The company has a total of something like 3 million shares.My employer now informed me that he thinks we should change up my stock compensation to avoid excess taxes on my behalf. He thinks that I will have to claim these many thousands of shares as income for tax purposes at the current valuation of 0.20 per share. He said I may want to take advantage of one of two possible options. 1 receive the shares now but at a valuation of 0.0001 per share, or 2 receive no shares but have stock options that allow me to buy the number of shares I could have accrued from my hours at a price of 0.0001 per share if the company is bought out or we have our IPO or whatever.I know a whole lot about my area of expertise, but all this finance stuff is far outside that range. Which of these three situations is best for me? Is there anything I need to look out for, it terms of my boss trying to screw me over?  <response>: Man.. this whole situation sounds like youre getting fucked. Ive worked for 2 start-ups, and we talked percent, not shares. Goto rstartups and ask there. Someone can help you not get screwed over. 