Abrasive CEO fires a bunch of people and generally pisses underlings off; her bitter victims leak some genuinely salacious details of her behavior to the press;

Abrasive CEO fires a bunch of people and generally pisses underlings off; her bitter victims leak some genuinely salacious details of her behavior to the press; story picks up eyeballs and board that has grown tired with her affect on morale decides it's time to pull the trigger on getting rid of her now that the cat's out of the bag. I don't understand why a conspiracy is necessary here.