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Even Yahoo's security guard is worried about Marissa Mayer

Apr 28, 2016, 19:18 IST

Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo, participates in a panel discussion at the 2015 Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco, California November 3, 2015.REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's status at the company is so precarious, even security guards are asking if she's going to be fired.

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In a telling anecdote from a recent Bloomberg feature on Yahoo, a security guard at Yahoo's New York office asked a reporter and editor, "unprompted," whether Mayer would stay in her job. When they asked the question back to him, the security guard "shook his head, grimaced, and tugged at his collar."

"Those hedge fund guys," the security guard said. "They really don't like her."

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Additional reporting by Eugene Kim.

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