Meg Whitman on How to Reprimand Employees

[marmar]

from HuffPost:



"Meg was a pretty good swimmer. But at meets, I had to be there, because if she wasn't at least first or second, she'd be screaming with rage." ~ Meg Whitman's Mother

This week, the New York Times uncovered an incident where Meg Whitman -- billionaire CEO and nominee for Governor of California -- lost her shit at the office and it cost the stockholders two hundred grand to make it go away.

The people who don't like her took a certain amount of pleasure in that, her godlike management skills being the only argument for her candidacy. (Since she's never held elected office, associated herself with any charitable or advocative movement or agency, spoken out on a single public policy, written an editorial on any subject, or voted.) Her anger issues got a little less funny towards the end of the week, when the website Gawker discovered that one of her sons likes to beat up women in bars.

To be fair to Griffith Rutherford Harsh V, the woman he hospitalized had insulted his fraternity.

I think, on the workplace violence thing at least, some people just don't understand hands-on management. According to the Times:

The employee, Young Mi Kim, was preparing Ms. Whitman for a news media interview that day... Ms. Kim later told at least one colleague that Ms. Whitman used an expletive and shoved her. According to one of the eBay employees knowledgeable about Ms. Whitman's version of the incident, Ms. Whitman said that she had physically guided Ms. Kim out of the conference room.

But it must have been some kind of serious physical guidance, because Whitman had to go into counseling with eBay's human resources department, mediation with its lawyers, and pay Kim $200,000. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/you-wont-like-meg-when-sh_b_617297.html

[Scuba]

1. Showing her right-wing credentials at a very early age...

..."Meg was a pretty good swimmer. But at meets, I had to be there, because if she wasn't at least first or second, she'd be screaming with rage." ~ Meg Whitman's Mother

[rurallib]

5. too bad her parents weren't rich enough to just pay the other

swimmers off. What a deprived childhood she had.
Hope she smacked her parents around a little for that.

[roguevalley]

11. for the entirety of my life, if anyone ever shoved or touched me in

anger, my reflexes ate them back. I have never been able to control it so if Meg ever touched me, she would still be looking for her false teeth. just the way I am wired I guess. I wish someone would plant these bastards into the ground just once. I would send money for their lawyer. As for her son, not only is his name stupid but apparently he is too. didn't fall far from the tree.

[Taitertots]

12. The Internet ninja award goes to...

You are wired to be a violent maniac? Threatening to knock someone's teeth out because you don't have any self control sounds like the actions of a violent maniac, and it also won you the internet ninja award.

[roguevalley]

13. ah, net nannies. lets go over this again. getting hit or punched makes

an automatic reflex happen to me that usually results in a push back or a shove. Had it all my life. For you to come to the conclusion you did is just about as comical and knee jerk as my reaction to getting punched or slapped by others. Homicidal maniac? You are sooooooo sad. Kneejerk, thy name is taitertots.

[Dulcinea]

18. I would never stand for that from my kid.

I would have removed Meg the brat from the swim team immediately. Or told her to work harder if she wanted to win every time. But that's just me.

[Orrex]

2. I'll bet that if a janitor in eBay's office building had shoved Whitman...

then they'd simply send him to counseling, pay a pittance, and be done with it.

[WinkyDink]

19. How about: No counseling; no pay; and fired on the spot is more like it.

[midnight]

3. I can't seem to open the link. So I will go to Huffington post and finish reading.

[saltpoint]

4. The GOP gubernatorial and U.S. Senate noms in California this year are

about as ruthless a couple of monsters as could be found.

Good god.

[Scuba]

6. The State that brought us Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown. Go figure.

[JDPriestly]

7. Hey! After the governors we have had to put up with in recent years, Schwarzenegger, Wilson

and Deukmajian in particular, I am looking forward to Jerry Brown's next term as governor. I firmly believe he will win.

Nutmeg Whitman will not be the people's choice.

[Scuba]

8. Absolutely. I'm a Jerry Brown fan. Man of conscience.

[Hannah Bell]

16. jerry brown loves charter schools.

[saltpoint]

9. Hi, Scuba. But wait. I'm a big Jerry Brown fan.

Ronald Reagan, ehhh, not so much.

[lunatica]

10. I'm voting for Jerry Brown and happy to do it

[Cleita]

14. Jerry was the last successful Governor that we have had. n/t

[Cleita]

15. Jerry Brown was a great Governor who had to go in and clean up

Reagan's mess. You can't put them in the same sentence.

[WinkyDink]

20. And your problem with Jerry Brown would be....?

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Sounds like Mad Meg was sharpening her groping skills to be

able to take on the GroppenFuhrer's chair.

Being a Nazi is hard work...BTW Meg, I won't be shopping on Ebay anymore.