Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers

baby wrote: post #4

meddlepal wrote: post #3

Yahoo is in full self-destruct mode this week.

Someone could wonder if all this is being triggered by people with an agenda.

To what end? Yahoo is dead and being purchased by Verizon already for an agreed upon price. I guess they could back out, but that seems unlikely.

Re: Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers

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Post by argonaut » Fri, Oct 07, 2016, 4:22 AM UTC

I'm extra-suspicious of this lawsuit because of the opportunistic timing. He was fired in January 2015, more than 1.5 years ago. And yet the lawsuit is only filed now during Verizon's process of closing its acquisition of Yahoo. Whether or not he has a case, his motives now have an antagonistic taint because he no doubt timed this to maximize the PR damage and his chances of getting a quick settlement.

Re: Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers

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Post by matt4077 » Fri, Oct 07, 2016, 4:25 AM UTC

grawlinson wrote: post #2

With all the hubbub surrounding Mayer/Yahoo, why hasn't the board or shareholders fired her?

Mostly because there are people with opinions that differ from the hn/reddit echo chamber.

Nobody denies that yahoo failed, but most people also believe that it's fate was sealed the day it refused to buy google, and that she did about as well as anybody would have.

...but also: she'd get a 60$ million bonus if fired, and considering that yahoo has already lost 90% of its former value and is being sold of, people probably stopped caring.

Re: Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers

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Post by sytse » Fri, Oct 07, 2016, 4:26 AM UTC

meddlepal wrote: post #6

baby wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone could wonder if all this is being triggered by people with an agenda.

To what end? Yahoo is dead and being purchased by Verizon already for an agreed upon price. I guess they could back out, but that seems unlikely.

Not totally unlikely https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/06/report-verizon-wants-1-bil...

Re: Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers

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Post by rdtsc » Fri, Oct 07, 2016, 4:29 AM UTC

> “We believe this process allows our team to develop and do their best work. Our performance-review process also allows for high performers to engage in increasingly larger opportunities at our company"

Ok so has that worked out well for Yahoo? Clearly it's been enough time by now to do an evaluation of Yahoo practices looking back and say something like: "Yeah thanks to these great management practices we have reconquered market share / are the new exciting place where everyone wants to work / or we lead this revolutionary research"? It ended up being owned by a phone company in the end.

So if Yahoo is a failing company, what they did there, will be associated with failure. It seems they effectively moved the cause of promoting women in technology fields backwards. When someone will say "we should find a way to promote women more" ... "Oh, right, Yahoo was heavily into that, yeah that was ugly, the lawsuit and all...".

It is a bit like the crazy person advocating for your favorite language or framework, it's nice to have a fan, but because they are crazy, they are pushing everyone away with their behavior.

> as well as for low performers to be transitioned out.”

"Transitioned out" ... there is an almost a positive ring to it. "We've reached out to them, found their pain points and helped them transition out to a new stage". Is that how everyone talks now? Or is it just me who finds it grating.