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Re:Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree by wisty on Thursday May 03, 2012 @06:28PM (#3926121)
People always make this mistake. "Sure, she's a snake, but she'll be our snake". Yeah, right.
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Re:Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree by CaptainZapp on Friday May 04, 2012 @02:50AM (#3927390)
Pfizer's shareholders most certainly regret the day when the company thought Mary McLeod, their global head of HR, who was their snake, was a great hire.

A most interesting, alas lengthy, read about the whole sordid affair and why it may be a bad idea to hire a snake (or a multitude of them) can be found here : http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/28/pfizer-jeff...

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