<p>Okay, fine, Nrdsb4, I’ll call it falsification. He lied. </p>
<p>I still think it’s possible that firing the guy may not be the best thing for the company or, necessarily, the only remedy. Does Yahoo have a zero tolerance policy for this sort of thing? I could see, possibly, if they hired him in reliance on this one piece of information. But it strains belief to think they did. The official bio on the site, for reasons that are mysterious to me, makes this claim. That’s not the same as getting a job based on a false statement … </p>
<p>I’ll bet you we could find lots and lots of false statements on this order on many executives’ official bios. Lots. Should they all be fired? I agree, the lying is damaging. But this guy saying he majored in something he didn’t major in does not make him unfit to lead the company. It does make him look like an idiot and he should acknowledge that straightaway. (PR people going to the “inadvertent error” defense. Ugh. So unimaginative and transparent.)</p>