“You won’t get an easy headline from this,” Warren told me.

“And you may be blamed for whichever decision the board makes.”

“I didn’t take this job to be popular,” I said.

“I know.

I just want you prepared.”

The next morning an anonymous post appeared online claiming the new CEO had orchestrated a public humiliation of her husband’s secretary.

Another claimed Bridgett had been fired on the spot.

Neither was true.