Dan S. Wang on Thu, 10 May 2012 15:14:07 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Another insult of the 1 percent: everybody does it! |
My friend at Yahoo, a senior engineer, tells me that his co-workers are in a lather. Their CEO, known for a leadership style, reorganization strategy, and corporate housecleaning method akin to swinging a double-headed axe blindfolded, apologized twice last week for having made the mistake not of lying, but of including an ³inadvertent² false credential on his resume: that he had earned an undergraduate degree in computer science when in fact he hadn¹t, and had only a degree in accounting. This, in a company and a Silicon Valley professional environment full of engineers with honestly hard-earned CS degrees from Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, Cal Poly, Michigan, Purdue, Georgia Tech, etc, etc. The man has not been fired yet. Because apparently ³everybody does it.² Or ³it doesn¹t matter.² Or ³it¹s no big deal.² Or because the board just won¹t hold another multi-millionaire accountable. They just won¹t. Neutrality? Complexity? No. The question is this: how does one group of people make another group of people do something that they really don¹t want to do? http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-yahoo-ceo-20120509,0,4505704.story http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/09/technology/yahoo-ceo-resume-reactions/index. htm Dan W. <...> -- http://prop-press.typepad.com/ http://www.prop-press.net/ http://www.midwestradicalculturecorridor.net/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org