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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."
Sanders lost b'cos another vaJINO Democrat - Debbie Wasserman Schultz - rigged the game for Clinton w/ Superdelegates and all. The leaked emails proved that the DNC did have a dog in this fight. While a part of the problem was that all the millennials - those college kids who attended Sanders rallies - didn't turn out to vote in big numbers beyond IA and NH, the superdelegates meant that even if they did, Clinton would still have pulled thru. Obama won in 2008 only by a miracle. In fact, the GOP establishment tried the same thing w/ Trump, but there were too many 'Clintons' there for that to be successful. I mean who was the GOP establishment to pick? Bush? Christie? Kasich? By the time they settled on first Rubio and then Cruz, it was too late.
One thing I'm hopeful about. If the millennials couldn't drag their sorry asses out to vote for Bernie - despite attending his rallies - they will do even less for Hilary. And they do have choices in Jill (a female Bernie w/ a party of her own) and the ex GOP governors best known for supporting legalization of pot than anything else.