An hour or so ago, some more delightful news came across the wire. Ellen “Chairman” Pao is going to have to pay her old employers, Kleiner Perkins, $275,000 dollars in trial costs. If you follow me on Twitter, you know that she’s still trying to hold them up for $2.7 million. Apparently she can make the appeals process go away for that low, low cost! What a bargain. I guess she will now make her bribe offer $3 million. What a sad, sick individual.

Anyway, here’s the report:

A Superior Court judge ruled on Wednesday that Ellen Pao, the former venture capitalist at the center of the high-profile sex discrimination case earlier this year, must pay Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers nearly $276,000 to reimburse the venture capital firm for its expenses during the five-week trial…

In March, a 12-member jury found in favor of Kleiner on each of Pao’s four claims of sex discrimination and retaliation during her seven years at the firm; she was fired in October 2012, five months after filing the lawsuit. She sued for $16 million, but walked away with nothing…

Kleiner offered to waive all of its trial fees if Pao agreed to drop an appeal. She rejected that offer, and earlier this month filed a notice to appeal the jury’s decision; she has until mid-July to file her argument with an appeals court. Pao, however, has agreed to drop her appeal if Kleiner will pay her $2.7 million so she can recover her own costs from the three-year legal battle. Kleiner has said it won’t pay Pao a dime.

I guess you’ll have to hope that Reddit doesn’t fire your ass after they get through putting all the censorship on you. I think that’s likely to happen, by the way. She’s going to end up being the fall-guy if this takes them down a bad path. You notice that she’s still the “interim” CEO, right? That’s not an accident, and it will make it a lot easier to get rid of her down the road. Hopefully that day comes sooner rather than later. I’m not saying Reddit will be saved either way, but I’d like its chances better if she was given the boot.