So the vp of e-mail and instant messenging at Yahoo has written a "peanutbutter manifesto" complaining about the corporation's lack of vision, focus, and prosperity. His solution is to dump 20% of the folks who work there. Doing more with less has been the motto of human servitude agencies for quite a few years now. I suppose it was only inevitable that technology would follow suit. I suppose that computers could take over the jobs of some of the near-future missing workers though.
I've been referring to the mysterious folks in charge of censoring the Yahoo 360 bloggers as Y-bots. I wonder how many Y-bots will find their ways into the unemployment lines. And what the average Y-bot curriculum vitae looks like. "Yep, I was part of the crew that threw out such notables as Jeremy Crow and Weezie," should not be anybody's claim to fame.
Will a shake-up occur at Yahoo's famed purple and yellow corporate offices? Will Brad Garlinghouse beat up ol' Tony Semmel and toss him out before his retirement date? Will Yahoo's stock continue its' brief climb upward since the leak? Will Yahoo dump some of its' acquisitions? Will Yahoo be able to magically rejuvenate itself? Will I get my long-awaited chance to tell Yahoo to "Wave this?"
I remember some years ago when an off-hand remark by a school superintendent resulted in readers of the Amsterdam Recorder flooding his office with gifts of pencils. Maybe we should send the author of the leaked internal memo some peanut butter sandwiches. No jelly. Just gloppy peanut butter spread thickly on two slabs of Wonder-ful bread. Now that just might be something that would stick to the roof of Garlinghouse's mouth enough to get him to quit the yapping.
radical sapphoq
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The problem with Yahole in general is that it has gotten too far up it's own "you know what" and it doesn't matter how many employees work there at all. When it decided that it's only real claim was to comete with several companies at once it never took into account the "human element" of it all anyway.
It's commendable that they thought they could make a better IM than AOL, and could create a better Blog Community than Google, or do E-mail better than Microsoft, but the problems that endured by never actually being able to have enough human beings monitoring all of these things was thier actual downfall, and created an entire online nation of predators that operated like a bunch of welfare moms in need of a check.
As they amped up thier business models for invading as many homes as possible, they really did start catering to the lowest common denominator, so that anyone opposed to the clientel that they were gathering up and the cyber stalkers that were a large majority of them, they were incapable of handling who was and who was not a nare do well, and in the end decent people were left to defend themselves while Yahoo followed the Department of Human Services model of taking to the side of those with the biggest mouth as opposed to paying attention to who they were "dealing" with and in the end made thier services more dangerous through ignorance, and being the "All Powerful Yahole" ...
Again I say as I always have ... stay out of Yahole and you won't get burned, play with the wolves and get eaten ... I'm not playing anymore ;-) JC
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