Former Yahoo CEO Bartz Could Lose $10 Million for Calling Board Members ‘Doofuses’
- Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:16pm by
Liz Klimas
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When Carol Bartz was fired earlier this week as CEO of Yahoo! She was given a healthy severance package of $10 million and a non-disparagement clause.
That $10 million is now in question after Bartz, still a member of the board herself, called the other members a bunch of ‘doofuses’ in an interview with Fortune magazine.
And that’s not all. According to Fox News, Bartz also told the magazine, “These people f*ck*d me over.”
Thanks to the non-disparagement clause, Fortune (via Fox News) reported, Bartz could likely kiss the money goodbye. In fact, Fortune writes, it may be “the first time in history that the term ”doofus” has cost — or made — anyone a substantial amount of money.”
Is Bartz going to have a Steve Urkel “Did I Do That” moment?
The former CEO worked for Yahoo! since 2009 and announced to employees Tuesday via email she had been fired. Since then, there has been speculation over what Yahoo! will do next and whether it will sell.
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Comments (49)
South Philly Boy
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:43pmGood
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:06pmwouldnt that be DUFFI???
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:57pmLooks like the dufuss is on her now. lol
:)
Report Post »fizzycist
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:55pmNormally, I try to think of Capitalism with enthusiasm….until I see , what I consider useless people, get 10M severance packages…and for what?…..FAILURE….Amazing….Amazing…..Amazing….
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:15pmJust love the classy liberal women!
Report Post »Hope she will give most of the $10m to the government for re-distribution
The Third Archon
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:33pmThat‘s an awfully big assumption to make that she’s liberal. Why would she be liberal? She’ was a CEO, and a member of a least one board of directors, for a multinational corporation. Sounds really liberal to me.
Report Post »Arminianism
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 9:02pmThats not a stretch at all. Google her name and add political donations. She is a very active donor and they are all dems, including Obummer. No wonder she was a lousy CEO with that mindset and worldview.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 9:22pmCorporations give to both parties all the time–they want to cover their bases and they don’t really care about political ideology beyond how it will serve their immediate material. Although you may be right–maybe she does hold liberal personal beliefs. I don‘t really care since it doesn’t affect me in the slightest, I just thought it seemed odd that she would be given her occupation. But stranger things have happened.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 9:51amDoes the average American really care? This overpaid troll blows 10 million because she can‘t keep her mouth shut and most of us don’t make that much in a lifetime. If someone gave me 10 million to quit I would take the money, shut my mouth and leave town .
And people wonder why our economy is messed up – you can bet the money was going to be charged off to customers with higher rates and I’ll give you good odds that it is not going to show up as a profit. Governmenrt and private industry are out of control.
Report Post »waggie
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 8:47pmCalling them doofuses (is that really how that word is spelled?) is one thing, saying the F word is quite another. Off with her head!
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 11:41amAnouther english major from HARVARD showing what a first class education she recived.
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 10:57amLets see… now that’s a pink slip with a 10M check attached to it yet she says she got put over a barrel.
I wonder if the people standing in unemployment lines in this country would agree with her on that?
Report Post »AZ_Dennis
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 10:41amMy Yahoo USED to be my home page. Over the past two years their news section becaame increasingly leftist — and I mean way beyond MSNBC leftist. This is especially true of the news articles written by Yahoo staff. So last winter I moved to another home page (igoogle) that gave me more control over the news coverage. Now my daily news includes Drudge, Blaze, Malkin, Townhall, Infowars — as well as Reuters, CNN, BBC, and a few other mainstream news organizations. Yahoo is killing itself. Good riddance.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:01pmyahoo…just another propagada arm of the DNC Commune Crowd…AOL/HUFF-PUFF even worse..sure would like to have an AMERICAN server…any suggestions???
Report Post »p00gles
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 10:38amGross, she has a cursor in her mouth!
Report Post »curtisgb
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 10:54amAwesome! ROTFL!!
Report Post »wildturkeywatcher
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 7:19amMaybe the way she was fired speaks for itself – and “doofus” doesn’t cover it…
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:51amDamn Blaze! – Now you’ve done it! – The cat’s out of the bag… just when we had the neighborhood Democrat convinced that calling her a doofus was a compliment!
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:56amThat’s a good one! lol
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:35amIt would have been better used for Obama and the Democratic Party!
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:14amShe works for a left leaning lib corp. and she’s surprised they f–ked her over?
Look what Zuckerberg did to the real inventors
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:13amShouldn’t that be doofusi?
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:27pmWhat a dillweed.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:24pmMan, it‘s a good thing there’s nothing going on in the news right now, like, oh, I don’t know, the Israeli Embassy in Cairo being invaded and ransacked. Because THAT would be big news. Hell, THAT would be an act of war.
Report Post »applehill
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:23pmWay to go Carol Bartz, you doofus.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:16pmIn the immortal “word” of the great Homer Simpson….D’OH!!!!
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 12:01amlol
Report Post »goobert
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:09pmnondisparagement clause
Report Post »A provision in a contract requiring one or more parties to the agreement not to make negative statements about the other(s). A nondisparagement clause is often included in a settlement agreement that resolves a dispute. http://www.nolo.com/dictionary/nondisparagement-clause-term.html
MODEL82A1
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:09pmLet’s see, Obama, Soros, Sunstein, Axelrod, Alinsky, Holdren, Van Jones, Cloward & Piven….Hmmmm…… this story doesn’t seem to serve any purpose whatsoever…. Wait! Yahoo is an internet search engine. And Google is an internet search engine. We all know of the nefarious evil of Google. Got it!
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:23pmYes, and I had Yahoo removing “theBlaze” from the first 2 pages when I tried to search fr it back in the beginning. This was the same time when the Cheif Editor of HufPo, also served on the board at Yahoo, and was trying to get Yahoo to buy Huff Po. The actually result that came up first was a link that took me to a liberal page supporting Obama. This was going on for like a week, then it changed back. I always wondered if this wasn‘t a ploy by Huff Po’s chief editor to make the hits on Huff Po appear much greater than other similar or competing wed sites. Don’t know, but I don’t trust any of these Liberal Hacks.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:01pmLike I said before, I don’t give a poop. (Is that better blaze?)
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:59pmI think it goes to court and it costs her say 20% of the 10M.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:54pmShe got 10 million and got effed over ? … who’s the doof ?
Report Post »johnj1952
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:53pmA WHAT? Come on who cares.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:19pmDoes meaningless name calling REALLY constitute “disparagement”?
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on September 9, 2011 at 11:00pmChuck
I am with you.. I don’t think that would amount to“Disparagment”. If she loses the money over that
Report Post »it would be ridiculous. I would think it would have to be something a lot more serious and demeaning.