Carol Bartz waylaid her former employer in her first interview since she was fired over the phone from her job as Chief Executive of Yahoo.
Barely 24 hours after company chairman Roy Bostock fired Miss Bartz in a call to her cell phone, she rang Fortune magazine to let off steam over her removal from the high profile role.She laid into the Yahoo board that fired her after only two years in the job and said: ‘These people f***ed me over.’
She continued to eviscerate them, not only burning the bridge but ransacking the village, too.
The outgoing CEO, hired in 2009 to turn around the company’s fortunes, went on to describe them as a bunch of ‘doofuses.’Miss Bartz made the call to the influential business magazine from Silicon Valley as reporters waited outside to report the news of her departure.
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And she revealed that she was scheduled to call Mr Bostock at 6pm but when she did he promptly started to read a lawyer’s prepared statement dismissing her.
Miss Bartz told Fortune: ‘I said “Roy, I think that’s a script. Why don’t you have the balls to tell me yourself?”‘
She went on to explain that the by the end of the call she merely replied: ‘I got it. I got it’ as he finished reading the dismissal notice.
She told the magazine she had told her former boss: ‘I thought you were classier.’
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She said she plans to remain on Yahoo’s board as a director, which means she would be surrounded by people she’s just called ‘doofuses.’
Yahoo brass believes Bartz didn’t deliver in overcoming stiff GOogle competition to raise the company from its revenue slump. Bartz retorts that no revenue increase was expected by 2012 at the earliest, something the company knew when they moved to hire her and after celebrating the deal she brokered between Yahoo and Microsoft.
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