Meg Whitman: “Are you fucking kidding me with this shit? Do I have to fucking do everything myself?”

[Amerigo Vespucci]

At eBay, Whitman Was Known for Fierce Temper
Former employees say her angry outbursts and imperious management style raise questions about how she’d govern
By Elizabeth Lesly Stevens on October 29, 2010 - 9:40 a.m. PDT



http://www.baycitizen.org/governors-race/story/ebay-whitman-was-known-fierce-temper/

“She makes up her mind on as little information as possible to get to the conclusion she wants,” said Brad Handler, eBay’s associate general counsel and director of law and public policy from 1997 until 2001. “She does not move off her position once she has staked it out. She does not tolerate dissent. She had no interest in government while I was there. She operates like one of the boys in an old boys’ network. She gets people who are extremely loyal to her, surrounds herself with that bubble, and that is the only information she wants to hear.”

A number of other employees who agreed to speak on the condition that they not be identified painted a similar picture.

One employee vividly recalls a late-2006 meeting about potential candidates for a job opening at eBay that left her physically afraid of Whitman.

“Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?” the eBay chief executive screamed at the executive recruiters who were on the phone, the employee recalled. Whitman was angry because a candidate was not being brought in for an interview. “Do I have to fucking do everything myself? What is wrong with you people?”

[nmbluesky]

1. "Real World Leadership"

If you see her background..
She isn't good leadership, does she?

[woodsprite]

2. She sounds exactly like Bush

especially the part that says "She operates like one of the boys in an old boys’ network. She gets people who are extremely loyal to her, surrounds herself with that bubble, and that is the only information she wants to hear.”

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Exactly what I was thinking!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. “She makes up her mind on as little information as possible to get to the conclusion she wants,”

That reminds me of someone... A former pResident, perhaps?

[lumberjack_jeff]

33. It is this characteristic in some people that I hate most. They're okay with being wrong...

... they just want the power to make their incorrect views policy.

[Vincardog]

5. Will someone please tell me what entitles these reichWingNutz to destroy companies and be paid LOTS

to do it?

[woo me with science]

6. ...

[K8-EEE]

25. LOL.....she totally seems like the boss from hell!

She always has seemed that way to me!

[lpbk2713]

7. In short --- she's a psychotic despot.

It pleases me to no end that she's flushing almost $200,000,000 down the crapper. :rofl:

[JuniperLea]

8. I simply LOVE that she's stimulating California's economy!

:rofl:


I really love all the glossy paper she fills my mailbox with daily!

I'd put it all in the bathroom, but even my ass doesn't want to see that face!

:rofl:

[customerserviceguy]

23. Too bad you don't want to use it

It would improve it!

[HillWilliam]

27. Liable to give you an awful rash n/t

[Quantess]

9. A lot of otherwise great people sometimes have angry verbal outbursts.

Not that I think she's a great person, but it seems like petty gossip, compared to what else we know about her.

[JuniperLea]

10. The "you people" remark is pretty telling though...

Condescension is a pet peeve of mine.

[Quantess]

15. Good point. Me too, actually.

The cursing and raised voice can be overlooked sometimes, but the overall sentiment is important to look at. We already know about the condescension toward her long time undocumented housekeeper.

I don't begrudge anyone for simply cursing and shouting. People can be just as hateful and venomous with a calm voice. It's more about the message.

[petronius]

22. I don't know - aimed at a specific organization "you people" doesn't strike

me as condescending - it just means "you" in the plural. The first paragraph in that snip is far more damning than the example, IMO, although if the example was just one of many it's another flaw...

[blondeatlast]

12. Ex-leadership position vs. future leasership position. Very relevant.

As one who has quite the temper, I've learned how to control it because I do play a leadership role.

Sorry, your logic fails here.

[Quantess]

18. Thanks. We were just discussing condescension.

Looks like you know how to play that game as well. :hi:

[blondeatlast]

21. I apologize. I'll let my post stand but I shouldn't have added the last part.

Indeed it was condescinding. I'm sorry.

[Quantess]

28. Apology accepted.

:)

[Skidmore]

26. So becoming great is an excuse for incivility and treating others

with rudeness?

[Quantess]

29. What? I'm sorry, I don't understand your point.

Maybe starting by reading the whole thread would be a good idea.

edit spelling

[Richard Steele]

30. If she had ever done anything "otherwise great", your comment might be worthy of consideration....

But she hasn't, so it isn't.

[Quantess]

31. Maybe you would like to read my other comments in this thread before judging me,

or my "worthiness".

[lumberjack_jeff]

34. The fact that she once used a cussword isn't the problem. n/t

[dgibby]

11. This woman makes Leona Helmsey look like Mother Theresa.n/t

[blondeatlast]

13. Well, no, but they both are creepy as hell. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. Mother Teresa was NOT a saint.

She was a fraud. She collected millions and did not spend ANY of it on medical care for her so-called "patients". A place where people lay around and suffer and die, and get NO medical treatment is NOT a hospital. Sorry. She thought suffering was redemptive. Her suffering and agonized and dying patients did not agree with her.

[Name removed]

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[stopbush]

19. Yep. Hitchens' book on MT should be required reading around here.

[lolly]

24. O/T, but Thank You

Mother Teresa's views on the redemptive properties of suffering always creeped me out too. She didn't fund or create any programs that made people independent, healthy, and well-fed. She liked to keep them dependent on church largess.

My mother used to say she would have done more good if she'd given out birth control instead of blankets.

[The_Commonist]

16. No she doesn't.

At least Meg TRIES to do something relevant, even if she fucks it up.
Leona was just a parasite.

[lpbk2713]

20. Now it can be told, the real reason why NutMeg fired her housekeeper.

It was the wire hangers.

[Quantess]

32. Why did I even post on this thread, with all these ASSHOLES.

self-delete.