Layoffs Yahoo in real time
Yahoo may be reducing costs by laying off 1,000 staffs, but the price its giving is a free-for-all, courtesy of discontented and articulate former staffs in the blogosphere. As former “Yahooligans” started leaving their posts 12 Feb, they flooded the Internet with stories filled with anger, puzzlement, and plenty of sarcasm. For all blogger using the recount to Internet his or her story, there are at small a dozen sympathetic responders presenting a shoulder to cry on—or a possible job.
The narrative getting the most experience is a series written by Yahoo’s Ryan Kuder of San Jose. Kuder, who was laid off Feb. 12, twittered concerning his every step on layoff date in a series of bittersweet accessing. “This is a downer serious,” he wrote Feb.12. “Trying to drown it in free lattes. Which I will miss,” study one entry. “On the plus side, my convert just got a lot shorter,” reads one more. Several hours later, he added, “title into my HR meeting.
The area is called Lucy. Cute, eh?” Kuder got a pour of sympathetic and cheering twitters from fellow workers tech in response. “I sense your pain, Ryan,” wrote Reh Mulji. “I miss my free vitamin bars.” wrote Grfx303, “Hang in there Ryan. A new creation awaits!” The maintain seems to have helped Kuder in the modification to unemployment. “Kicking off the present day of joblessness with a run, Then…maybe a nap,” he wrote Feb. 13.