Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone!

theodp writes "Over at The Daily Beast, Dan Lyons says Resumegate is overblown and says it's time to stop picking on Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson. Even without the circa-1979 CS degree some incorrectly thought he possessed, Lyons argues that Thompson is still perfectly capable, his critics have ulterior motives, and his competitors have all lied before. 'Forgive me for being less than shocked at the idea of a CEO lying,' writes Lyons. 'Steve Jobs [college dropout] used to lie all the time, and he's apparently the greatest CEO who ever lived. Google lied about taking money from Canadian pharmacies to run illegal drug ads, but finally had to come clean and pay $500 million in fines to settle the charges. Mark Zuckerberg [college dropout] last fall settled charges brought by the FTC that his company had made "unfair and deceptive" claims—I think that's like lying—and, what's more, had violated federal laws.' So what makes the fudging of a 30-year old accomplishment on the Yahoo CEO's resume a transgression that the 'highly ethical and honest folks in Silicon Valley' simply cannot bear? 'Facebook is a cool kid,' explains Lyons. 'So is Apple. Yahoo is the loser kid that nobody likes.'"

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Re:It's the hypocricy

[Zapotek]

This is baffling, why does everyone assume that all people are equal and of equal worth under all possible circumstances? Yes, the CEO is far more important to the company than the sandwich guy.
This can either mean that a lying CEO can mess up the image of the company so it's imperative that he be sacked immediately or it can go completely the other way, i.e. he's the CEO, he can't just be fired over an irrelevant typicality.

Anyways, my point it that there's not a single drop of hypocrisy in this.