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Are Scott Thompson's Days Numbered?
- AllThingsD , Monday, May 7, 2012 12:24 PM
In the wake of accusations that Scott Thompson padded his resume, Web watchers are counting the days before Yahoo’s latest CEO becomes Yahoo’s last CEO. “At this point, it seems unlikely that Thompson can regain the confidence of many at Yahoo --- even though a company spokeswoman said he received a lot of incoming support too, both externally and internally -- until he can render some cogent explanation about how the borked bio got into both Yahoo’s public site and also its more critical regulatory filings,” writes to AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher.
According to comments on internal Yahoo message boards -- relayed to Swisher over the weekend -- some of Thompson’s biggest critics appear to be within the company. “Resume padding is one thing, but lying about something that is so easy to check is puzzling,” wrote one Yahoo employee, while another explained: “There is no reason to let it slide by … This isn’t some guy who’s trying to impress a date … It’s sad that we just accept this kind of stuff from corporate heads and politicians.” What appears to trouble employees most, as Swisher notes, “was the nonchalance of the initial Yahoo statement about the issue, which called the addition of a fake degree on Thompson’s bio an “inadvertent error.”
