Sue Black: the greatest threat to women in the workplace since Jack the Ripper

Submitted by Broadsword on Mon, 2011-09-12 14:15

Article here. Excerpt:

'Last week, legendary ball-buster Carol Bartz was dismissed from her position as CEO of troubled Internet giant Yahoo!. Carol Bartz was ousted because she is a potty-mouthed bully who failed to meet the expectations placed on her, despite being given free rein at the company to indulge in her favourite pastimes of firings before breakfast and impaling men on skewers in the courtyards of Sunnyvale.

That she was a woman was plainly irrelevant to her dismissal (though we may note, in passing, how much more testosterone Bartz appears to have flowing through her veins than the rest of the Yahoo! board). Yet, with depressing predictability, an English academic and management consultant has seized on the unhappy event as further proof that female quotas should be imposed on company boards.
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“Black the Ripper”, as she is coming to be known by other campaigners, who compare her damagingly crude analyses to the hatchet jobs performed by another well-known “women in the workplace” activist, struggles to marshall statistics to support her position in this piece, relying instead on data from that esteemed organ Marie Claire.'

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No sooner had the referenced article been published. :) But in all fairness, I know next to nothing about Carol Bartz and/or her mgt. or interpersonal style. I do know this: she isn't the first CEO to be fired by a Board via email, or phone call. Plenty of 'ordinary' workers get fired (or just laid off) that way also. If one is actually called into an office for a discussion with a manager, it's really become quite unusual. It's almost a compliment.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2011-09-12 17:18