An edict from Her Majesty: Yahoo's CEO betrays her womanhood and workers of both genders

[DonCoquixote]

56. The issue is not as much about telecommute

There can be work environments where it sucks and is abused, but it can also be incredible, especially when you have people scattered across the world. You expect Mr. or Ms. Park from Korea to commute here every time you need a prop gram fixed, or would you rather set up something where they can not only talk, but work with colleagues from the UK, Australia, New York and Chicago.

The issue is that when she did this, she sent a big old FU message by having the company build an on site private nursery, while leaving the rest of the female employees to scramble. Yes, she is the CEO famous for living in her cubicle, sleeping 5 hours a night under her desk, yadda, yadda, but the message is still clear that she did not give a damn about her employees. She could have actually set up an on site daycare center, or even made arrangements with one near the site, and that way she could have built solidarity, an esprit du corps, which is exactly what you need, if you want people working together making ideas.

Now, when you tell the employees that they are just drones, and that you are the spoiled CEO who has no loyalty to them (after all, she used to work for Google), then no one feels free to offer ideas, to work together as a team for a common goal. NO, this CEO has basically reminded the drones that the company owes them NOTHING, so that an employee that sticks his ir her neck out is a fool, one that will get a fool's wages when the axe falls. Of course, we know that the real goal could be to make people leave,as the stockholders like that.

Of course, you wonder when the stockholder will realize that CEOs can be outsourced too, for much cheaper. Even more so, you wonder how many of these stockholders realize that they are expendable ammo as well, after all, the billionaires cannot keep eating the middle class forever, they have to start eating the millionaires.

And as far as her gender goes, I will not deny that any CEO woman has a tougher time than the glorified frat boys who seem to get forgiven no matter what. However, just as I will not laud that fiasco Marco Rubio because he is a Latino, I would not laud this Ceo if I were a woman. As another Duer put it, if the ones that advance are the ones that are the "margaret thatcher" types, what do we gain?