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Mayer is not there to clock hours or save Yahoo with her brilliant ideas. You don't hire a pregnant CEO to get things done. Yahoo has to take a number of unpopu
by schoper 14y ago
Mayer is not there to clock hours or save Yahoo with her brilliant ideas. You don't hire a pregnant CEO to get things done. Yahoo has to take a number of unpopular actions in order to get back into the game. Remote workers tend to be mediocre workers and they need to go. So do others.
Mayer is there to absorb and deflect criticism during Yahoo's readjustment period. For various reasons, people don't like to criticize her, and when they do, they aren't criticizing Yahoo. She'll continue to slash and burn for a couple of years, and then she'll be gone, leaving Yahoo with a sort-of-clean reputation.
- xentronium 14y agoThis is some extraordinary claim. Do you have any extraordinary evidence besides her pregnancy?
- wutbrodo 14y agoNot to mention the fact that she _IS_ getting a lot of criticism (and she's not even pregnant anymore...)
- schoper 14y agoShe was sidelined at Google for years and basically forced out. Despite that, and despite her pregnancy, Yahoo still hired her. Every indication is that she is at Yahoo as an Image CEO. Further, the only thing that makes my claim "extraordinary" is that Mayer is someone who garnered elect status on HN shortly after her tenure at Yahoo began. A similar (though opposite) phenomena was the story yesterday about Mark Pincus, which generated a lot of heat for saying something positive about one of HN's "damned" personalities.
- fnordfnordfnord 14y agoI'm not sure about your "Remote workers tend to be mediocre workers" bit. I think that mediocre workers tend to be mediocre workers, whether working from home or office. If a person has a good work-ethic, they will choose the correct environment for themselves. But the rest of it sounds at least plausible, if not likely.