Archive for the ‘WTF’ Category

Bloomberg: Yahoo to Offer Severance Plans After Microsoft Bid

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Now that a bunch of people have been cut, the games with severance pay, benefits, grants, and options are being played to either fend-off... or more likely "pump up the value" of Yahoo. From Bloomberg: Full-time employees would get at least four months of severance pay and executive officers will get ...

What they Did Instead of Making Software

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Trying to be eco-friendly is good and all, but if your company is having problems with the bottom line, we recommend putting some effort into making your software and services better, instead of making shiny buses... Oh yeah, and they made shiny purple Mini-Coopers too!  Seriously, folks -- how much ...

Yahoo! Buys Maven Networks - WTF?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

We thought the whole idea of laying off a bunch of people at Yahoo! was to trim its workforce, but on the same day the bad news broke out for almost a thousand employees, came the news that Yahoo! is purchasing a video ad company called Maven Networks. The NYT ...

LAYOFF ALERT (It’s about freakin time)

Friday, February 8th, 2008

After months and months and months of rumors -- new rumor has it the axe will finally fall as early as next week... Not that it was a surprise, but the feet-dragging was getting excruciating. HR's working around the clock over the weekend, and managers are mumbling, with deployment plans being distributed ...