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View submission: Kn0thlng Admits He was Behind Vlctoria's Termination: Was E|len a Patsy?
What would the primary interests of yishan, ex-CEO, be?
Alexis wasn't some employee reporting to Pao, he was the Executive Chairman of the Board, i.e. Pao's boss. **He had different ideas for AMAs, he didn't like Victoria's role, and decided to fire her.** Pao wasn't able to do anything about it. In this case it shouldn't have traveled upstream to her, it came from above her.
Then **when the hate-train started up against Pao, Alexis should have been out front and center saying very clearly "Ellen Pao did not make this decision, I did." Instead, he just sat back and let her take the heat. That's a stunning lack of leadership and an incredibly shitty thing to do.**
I can lighten up a bit based on /u/kickme444 's comment/clarification above given that in-one-capacity you weren't her boss, but I am still extremely disappointed in you.
**It wasn't "we didn't handle it well" - Ellen actually handled things very well, and with quite a bit of grace given the prejudices arrayed against her and the situation she was put in - you didn't handle it well.** There was tremendous amounts of unnecessary damage done as a result, and we are only able to say that things might turn out ok because Huffman agreed to return and take up the mantle.
Comment by [deleted] at 13/07/2015 at 10:09 UTC*
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I go to cinema
Comment by partanimal at 13/07/2015 at 14:47 UTC
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We all know this wasn't only about Victoria. It is a combination of a lot of decisions. And the use of the word "prejudice" is disturbing. She's being shit on due to her actions, not her race or gender (although her detractors use slurs to attack her - they would use other slurs mocking her for other things regardless of what demographic she belonged to).
Comment by EtherMan at 13/07/2015 at 14:42 UTC
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If Pao had no power to stop Alexis, then Pao should never have been made CEO because it means she does not have the powers of a CEO. If you wish to claim that kn0thing made the decision to fire Victoria as an executive chairman and forced Pao to accept it because of that, then you better have something to prove that, because that's actually illegal. The board, including an executive chairman, only has strategic powers over the company. They have ZERO executive powers that does not stem from the CEO. Executive chairman, does not mean he's a chairman with executive powers, it just means he's the leader of the board. It only outranks the CEO in the same sense that shareholders outrank the board.