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by nozzlegear 25 days ago
What makes you think that?
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If she didn't get paid to be the face of the blood letting then she didn't negotiate well enough.
She's a corporate executive. Maybe she's not willing to crash the business and take a golden parachute, but if so she's one of a vanishingly small crowd. I would personally bet that she's willing to slash and burn just like other corpos are.
Classic "glass floor" hire. Take the fall, get paid.
Almost! The common term is "glass cliff":

> The glass cliff is a phenomenon described by psychologists Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslam, in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in business and government) during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

She works for Microsoft. It's kinda their thing.