Somehow, Yahoo executive moves always seem to leak their way into the press. Once again, it was Kara Swisher who broke the news, this time that Yahoo's chief communications officer Jill Nash would be
leaving the company. Following that revelation, irate CEO Carol Bartz wrote a memo to Yahoo staff putting a bounty on the head of the whistleblower. Within minutes, this news was also
leaked to
The Wall Street Journal.
"Maybe we should have a weekly bounty on such people," Bartz
wrote. "I will throw in the first thousand dollars." In the memo, Bartz also blasted employees for being late to meetings. "Let's all work hard to start meetings on time," she said, adding she wanted
everyone to stop using the word "silos," which made her think "I am back on the farm in Wisconsin."
Meanwhile, Nash, the departing executive, does not appear to have any plans to move to
another company, indicating perhaps that she is "completely spent from her past two years at Yahoo, which have been very fraught from a public relations perspective, to say the least," said Swisher.
Indeed, from Terry Semel's departure, to Jerry Yang's handling of the Microsoft mess, to the Carl Icahn proxy fight, to the failed search deal with Google, it's been quite a few years for Yahoo in the
news.
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