Some cried. Others were speechless. How front-line workers walked away with checks averaging $240,000 when KKR sold their company
By Shawn Tully••Fortune
They knew they were getting a payout. But employees at CoolIT had no idea just how much they'd profit from KKR's sale of their employer.
It was showtime for the employees of CoolIT.In the late afternoon of March 25th, as an unexpected snowstorm blanketed Calgary, Canada, around 600 mainly front-line workers of CoolIT Systems gathered …