March 2nd, 2013 → 8:21 am @ Lea // No Comments
“Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.” – Julius Caesar
How disappointing of Marissa Mayer. The new Yahoo! CEO has decided that telecommuting doesn’t work (and in a tech company!). That and her recent comments about how easy motherhood is (well yes, if you’re rich and can build a nursery next door to your office) has sealed it for me – I don’t like her and I think she’s going to be an awful leader. If you can’t put yourself in other people’s shoes, if you can’t understand the need for certain options in circumstances other than your own, then your blind, selfish, and ineffective.
Chris Clark
11 years ago
Unfortunately, Ms. Mayer’s approach is fairly typical when the unemployment is high. Employers know they’ve got the upper hand so upper management either puts off implementation of or removes existing work alternatives that thye consider inconvenient without considering productivity implications.
I’ve got a friend who’s been a big Yahoo supporter for years and had repeatedly bought more of their stock when it took big price hits. After her announcement, he dumped all of his shares. Granted, it was less than 2,000 shares so I doubt anyone at Yahoo will notice (or care), but when I asked him about it, his comment was, “The writing’s finally etched in stone; Yahoo’s not going to recover, and I don’t care to watch the slow death-spiral.”
Lea
11 years ago
That’s interesting about your friend. If I had shares, I’d sell them too. It’s just so disappointing. I really want to support a young female CEO and all that, but I just can’t when she’s being an idiot.