Could the real reason for Sheryl Sandberg’s Meta exit be linked to probe of alleged resource misuse?

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Many are still shocked over the abrupt departure of Meta’s COO Sheryl Sandberg, who stepped down after 14 years during an investigation into her alleged inappropriate use of corporate resources for her upcoming wedding.

Sources according to the Wall Street Journal are reporting that a review is underway of her use of corporate resources to help plan her upcoming wedding to Kelton CEO Tom Bernthal, the brother of actor Jon Bernthal.

A Meta spokesperson told the Daily Mail that “Sheryl did not inappropriately use company resources in connection with the planning of her wedding. This has nothing to do with Sheryl’s departure from the company.”

Sandberg claims that she never meant to stay in her position at Meta for longer than five years and that she is “burned out.” She asserts she feels like a “punching bag” over the criticisms Meta and Facebook have faced in recent years, according to the Wall Street Journal. She reportedly claimed that she felt pressured, an unnamed source close to her alleged because she was the company’s most powerful woman.

“She sees herself as someone who has been targeted, been tarred as a woman executive in a way that would not happen to a man,” one colleague who has worked with Sandberg for years told the Wall Street Journal. “Gendered or not, she’s sick of it.”

Those same sources contend that Sandberg also felt drained since her scheduled 30-day vacation, which Meta awards to its top members once every five years, had been postponed twice after she and her fiancé caught COVID.

Sandberg will remain on the Meta board after she departs.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg and top executives at Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook are under pressure to revamp its social media services after a whistleblower in 2021 revealed the company was cognizant of the negative effects that Instagram was having on teens but did almost nothing to change it.

Sandberg does not appear to hold a grudge against the company or Zuckerberg. She asserts that she is excited in regard to the company’s future advances.

“Sitting by Mark’s side for these 14 years has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime,” she wrote in her lengthy resignation post on Facebook. “I am so immensely proud of everything this team has achieved.”

Sandberg previously worked at Google as the vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations for four years before Facebook went public and she signed on as the chief operating officer in 2008. She was also chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under former President Bill Clinton and worked as an economist at the World Bank.

It is not clear what Sandberg’s plans for her future are at this point. Her immediate concerns ostensibly deal with her impending wedding and with charity work.

Whatever she plans, Sandberg will not be strapped for cash. Her estimated net worth is $1.6 billion and she is a successful author.

Her late husband, Dave Goldberg, died in 2015 at the age of 47 after suffering a heart arrhythmia on a treadmill. They had two children together.

In February 2020, Sandberg announced her engagement to Bernthal.

The Verge is also reporting that Vice President of AI, Jerome Pesenti, is leaving the company as well.

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10 thoughts on “Could the real reason for Sheryl Sandberg’s Meta exit be linked to probe of alleged resource misuse?

  1. So surprising that a Clintonista basically took over FB and turned it into a political tool for the Clintons’ DNC… she probably had the Clintonistas’ that ran CTCL and CEIR (the groups the $400M ZuckerBucks went to in 2020… to commandeer many elections offices) on ‘speed-dial’ as well as her top-ten ‘friends on Facebook’. You know the only ‘ex-Clintonistas’ that aren’t STILL Clintonistas seem to have ‘unfortunate accidents’, actual opposition members are the ones mysteriously ‘Arkancided’.
    Because she’s a Woman! W. O. M. A. N.

  2. What? She feels she’s being “tarred as a woman executive in a way that would not happen to a man”?

    Did she ever hear of Dennis Kozlowski?

    EVERYONE….can we just stop using NWM (non white man) as the excuse for everything?

  3. Just another elitist Zuckerpuke trying to destroy our Constitution and Bill of Rights !

  4. Oh, WAAAAA!!!!! Because I’m a woman, I’m being targeted. If I was a man… if only I was a man…

    1. One of this woman’s pet peeves, too, BigBrick! Not one time in my long professional career — not once — have I ever felt “put-upon” because I’m a woman. Some though simply can’t face the fact that they just may not be good enough — or the best person for the job/opportunity! 🙄

      1. My sister once complained that her application for a Bank Manager had been turned down because she was a woman. She was not happy when I said that all bank managers I was aware of were women. The glass ceiling is never shattered until you’re the one that cracked it, and to hell with the rest.

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