Hacked TalkTalk CEO: Dead as a Dido? Nope, she refuses to quit

If the board and the major share holder support her, it only goes to show how clueless the whole outfit is. They screwed up big time, but how she handled the whole situation since last week was just abysmal. She should go, and she should take the CTO and CIO with her on the way out.

My opinion is that she should resign.

My opinion is that she should be fired. No excuses for this debacle, none what-so-ever.

Re: A happy ending then?

What's an oral update?

Sounds awfully rude...

>She's a liar and a cheat.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

The share price was up 5% today, not far off the pre-scandal price. So the City boys think it's all fine.

Does the opinion of anyone else matter to the Board?

If she had said she'll release customers from their stupid contracts

Oh, well I don't care about process, just release me from MY contract as I signed up like an idiot, despite looking up the complaints, then believing them to be a good ISP

here we have the me, me, me input

Re: Full support of the board

The company has failed three times in a year in a major way. The handling of this has been a shambles. The reputation of the company (never great) is in shreds. Its shares have taken a hit. Its desperately trying to stop people leaving which may stem immediate losses but they are to come.

She is the first and only CEO of the company since the split from CPW. Five years. If she doesn't take responsibility and the pearl handled revolver - who does? Or was all that money she trousered/skirted not justified on success and risk?

Absolutely sickening. But what do you expect from that one Chipping Norton cabal (Dunstone, Harding, Cameron, Brooks ...) rewarding themselves with knighthoods, peerages, horses and goodness knows what else and who have been mixed up in not just one corporate f***fest but many?

Unbelieveable.

Re: Full support of the board

Its your typical board/management they know best and the workforce who know better dont

Re: Women on top

"They can't fire her now, it'll look bad for the 'more women on the board' campaign."

OTOH it doesn't look good anyway.

Re: She should stay for the time being

"At least she had fronted up and faced the press. A lot of CEO's woul hide behind some faceless PR Hack."

No, she should have been clearing her desk & leaving a replacement CEO to deal with it. Being the CEO in place before the hack should have been an opportunity for any media interviewer to rip her to shreds the morning after.

Having the head of an organisation accept responsibility & quit after such a balls up is the first step to avoiding the balls up in the first place. It provides a massive incentive to understand what's happening day-to-day and avoid a culture that doesn't pass stuff that should be need-to-know up the line. At worst it eliminates the muppets by Darwinian selection. She has overall responsibility. It's what she's paid for. Accepting that responsibility for what goes wrong goes with the territory. So far her contribution seems to be being in denial of the magnitude of what's gone wrong.

Re: She should stay for the time being

"A lot of CEO's woul hide behind some faceless PR Hack."

She _is_ the faceless PR hack.

Remember: "The purpose of a president is not to wield power, but to distract attention from those who do"

Re: isn't she connected?

Yup. Baroness Hardup of Petherton, no less.

Oxford PPE. so absolutely one of the chaps, and absolutely clueless about technology, like Cameron et al.

Born on a pig farm and likes horses apparently.

@ chivo243 Re: isn't she connected?

> I find it hard to believe the board can do much against the "connected" woman

Most definitely in the past but I suspect much less so today. I suspect (and would like to believe) that shareholders and board members are more hard nosed these days.

No, Aqua Marina that's not a man, it's what your stereotypical

lesbian is supposed to look like.

Re: And now it is Vodafone's turn

They are ALL at it. Posted it elsewhere, will post it again.....

The big cheeses want to "save" money by skimping on security and dumping the workforce for cheaper labour elsewhere who really don't have a clue. Seen it half a dozen times now, and yes, I have worked for Telcos. Until these idiots at the top are made accountable for the half-arsed decisions they make that lead to security breaches of this nature, then the problem will never go away.