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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Led Illegal Purge of Male Employees, Lawsuit Charges (mercurynews.com)
A prominent local media executive fired from Yahoo last year has filed a lawsuit accusing CEO Marissa Mayer of leading a campaign to purge male employees. "Mayer encouraged and fostered the use of (an employee performance-rating system) to accommodate management's subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo's male employees," said the suit by Scott Ard filed this week in federal district court in San Jose. From a MercuryNews article: Ard, who worked for Yahoo for 3 and a half years until January 2015, is now editor-in-chief of the Silicon Valley Business Journal. His lawsuit also claims that Yahoo illegally fired large numbers of workers ousted under a performance-rating system imposed by Mayer. That allegation was not tied to gender. Yahoo spokeswoman Carolyn Clark said Yahoo couldn't comment on pending litigation, but she defended the company's performance-review process, which she said was guided by "fairness." "Our performance-review process was developed to allow employees at all levels of the company to receive meaningful, regular and actionable feedback from others," Clark said. "We believe this process allows our team to develop and do their best work. Our performance-review process also allows for high performers to engage in increasingly larger opportunities at our company, as well as for low performers to be transitioned out."
She was probably just trying to curtail cost by firing the male employees.
Wasn't this reported in The Onion?
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
And start a new company that combines their core strengths of incompetency, fraud, and perpetual social injustice. They can name the company "Loss Carry Forward, Inc."
My wife used to work for hospice.
When she says "transitioned" she means "died."
Which is what Yahoo's going to do, shortly.
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BMO
Dude. There are no feminists on this web site.
Don't you know better than to step in front of Slashdot's SJW hate train?
I had a boss that was man angry after 3 failed divorces and purged all men from managerial positions.
Ok, I have to ask: how exactly do you fail at a divorce, let alone three of them?
People have failed marriages all the time, but I've never heard of a failed divorce. I've heard of people changing their mind and deciding to stay together, but I wouldn't call that a "failed divorce".
"Our performance-review process was developed to allow employees at all levels of the company to receive meaningful, regular and actionable feedback from others," Clark said. "We believe this process allows our team to develop and do their best work. Our performance-review process also allows for high performers to engage in increasingly larger opportunities at our company, as well as for low performers to be transitioned out."
Mayer still has a job, therefore something here isn't true.
Do you have ESP?
She tried to get divorced three times, and each time she filed for divorce the judge pointed out to her that she wasn't actually married to any of her 36 cats.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Don't forget the ULTIMATE evil in the world: White HETEROSEXUAL men. I shudder to think of them plotting all their evil deeds.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.