Anonymous wrote:The Board wants to sell the very business she was brought in to save. She wasn't just a bad CEO - she was a dumpster fire.

On the plus side, women in tech have matched men in terms of pay for failure:

"Despite a lack of growth in the core business, the board has continued to approve higher pay packages for Ms. Mayer. Her compensation totaled $42 million in 2014, a 69% increase from previous years. Her high pay has been flagged by U.S. proxy-advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services, which said earlier this year that “shareholders should continue to closely monitor the company’s pay programs and in particular, the magnitude of CEO pay.”"

Why did the board approve such a large increase?

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Anonymous wrote:honestly two weeks is enough if you have good childcare

+1000. Honestly those who feign shock at this are just living in the past. Or you are not very successful.

Or your delivery was more difficult.

what a fraud and failure. Stick to pumping out babies Marissa!

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Anonymous wrote:honestly two weeks is enough if you have good childcare

+1000. Honestly those who feign shock at this are just living in the past. Or you are not very successful.

Your post is clearly not based in any fact. I guess leaving a newborn with a nanny is fine but babies (under the age of 1 year) should not be left in daycare more than 30 hours a week, according to numerous studies.

Anonymous wrote:honestly two weeks is enough if you have good childcare

+1000. Honestly those who feign shock at this are just living in the past. Or you are not very successful.

The Board wants to sell the very business she was brought in to save. She wasn't just a bad CEO - she was a dumpster fire.

On the plus side, women in tech have matched men in terms of pay for failure:

"Despite a lack of growth in the core business, the board has continued to approve higher pay packages for Ms. Mayer. Her compensation totaled $42 million in 2014, a 69% increase from previous years. Her high pay has been flagged by U.S. proxy-advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services, which said earlier this year that “shareholders should continue to closely monitor the company’s pay programs and in particular, the magnitude of CEO pay.”"

Compare her approach to Zuckerberg:
http://mashable.com/2015/11/20/zuckerberg-paternity-leave-facebook/

"Studies show that when working parents take time to be with their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families."

Anonymous wrote:The trainwreck might be coming to an end soon. Published within hours of each other:

http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-insiders-criticize-marissa-mayer-management-2015-11

http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2015/11/19/the-last-days-of-marissa-mayer/

http://fortune.com/2015/11/19/yahoo-starboard-alibaba-spinoff/

She is such a clown.

It's interesting how women fail badly at running tech companies but do a decent job running f500 defense contractors.

You can't blame sexism because it isn't like defense firms and the defense community is totally women friendly.

Interesting to read the articles. She was going to lay people off, she was just going to do it slowly over time but for a company like Yahoo that wasn't going to work because they just couldn't afford it. She should have followed the advice of the Board and reduced staff right at the outset by 50% or more.

Then she could have limped along and decided which products and which strategy she was going to focus on and then go full tilt.

Yahoo was never going to recover to their glory days - well I shouldn't say never because look at Apple after all -but they had a chance to eek out something new and become a stand out. They still could but they need to shrink way down on their their products and refocus only on the very specifics that people still use and then go from there. Of course, they would have had to shrink the staff again as well.

She never had a plan. She had a good slogan, a good campaign. But it was obvious from the get go she really had no idea what to do.

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Anonymous wrote: And she actually did give an interview where she bragged about how her first baby was extremely easy and always slept through the night. she basically said she didn't know what all the other women were complaining about

I had a ridiculously easy first baby. And then I had twins ... NIGHTMARE first year.

Yea, but she has an unlimited supply of money. Money buys time and sleep.

Anonymous wrote:plans on taking off limited time and working throughout. didn't really take a maternity leave for her son's birth a couple years ago.
I can't wait to see how she does (or doesn't ) do this.

Won't be hard. She's a billionaire and can bring thr babies and nanny to work. NBD. It's a filthy rich person thing, nobody expects you to understand.

"FASHION BLOGS and society pages always go crazy for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit, New York’s most exclusive and chic event. This May, somewhere between the entrances of Lady Gaga and George Clooney, there was Mayer, strolling the red carpet in a scarlet Oscar de la Renta beaded gown. Mayer was ­cochair of the event, along with Wendi Murdoch, actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Gong Li and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

Yahoo paid close to $3 million for the privilege—$2.5 million for the sponsorship and the rest for ancillary events. Besides the celebrity press photos and mentions of Mayer in her dress, Yahoo didn’t have much to show for its money. Its name was mentioned on the program, but its iconic corporate logo was nowhere to be found. Yahoo ad sales executives hoped to invite their best clients to sit at one of their two tables, but Mayer instead filled them with a few employees and a larger group of friends."

She burned 3 million to play dress up.

The links show she is a batshit crazy micromanager. She needs to move to get a job in DC so she can post here. Would fit right in

The trainwreck might be coming to an end soon. Published within hours of each other:

http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-insiders-criticize-marissa-mayer-management-2015-11

http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2015/11/19/the-last-days-of-marissa-mayer/

http://fortune.com/2015/11/19/yahoo-starboard-alibaba-spinoff/

She is such a clown.

It's interesting how women fail badly at running tech companies but do a decent job running f500 defense contractors.

You can't blame sexism because it isn't like defense firms and the defense community is totally women friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do so many people hate her...I never heard of her before until just now, and I don't really feel like dreading through every single comment, but from what I've seen here seems to be a large amount of vitriol surrounding her. Is there actual evidence that she is a bad mother? Or is it just the usual jealousy because how much much money she has (and therefore the opportunities she has that most others do not). Didn't she earn her money working at google? So it's not like she married for the money or inherited her riches. Seems to be a hard worker. And she is not the first woman to use a nanny.

Women are jealous of her, plain and simple.

Maybe, but she doesn't seem to be someone who wants to use her power to create a better working environment for families and thus for women. Therefore I am jealous of her and also I do not like her.

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Anonymous wrote: And she actually did give an interview where she bragged about how her first baby was extremely easy and always slept through the night. she basically said she didn't know what all the other women were complaining about

I had a ridiculously easy first baby. And then I had twins ... NIGHTMARE first year.

Same here. I/we had lots of help, too: I was already a SAHM, very easy vaginal birth and recovery with the twins, DH had a generous family leave policy and took four (paid) weeks off, we had a highly competent f/t nanny who knew her shit, a house cleaning service, and family who came by to help a lot, etc. All of that definitely took a lot of the pressure off but it in no way made dealing with three kids under two years of age remotely easy.

Anonymous wrote: And she actually did give an interview where she bragged about how her first baby was extremely easy and always slept through the night. she basically said she didn't know what all the other women were complaining about

I had a ridiculously easy first baby. And then I had twins ... NIGHTMARE first year.