Email from a Yahoo employee
This is worth reading, just for the writing.
Awareness of recent Yahoo news makes it even funnier.
Poor Jerry Wang, he’s on thin ice in the real world, and now he’s been fired from his temp job in the parallel universe of Fake Steve.
(Mom, I should tell you that Fake Steve link has quite a bit of profanity. You have been warned. :-))
This entry was posted on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 6:21 pm. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on June 27, 2008 at 9:27 pm Tom wrote:
Wow, the Yahoo memo is hilarious. It’s akin to Hillary running up and down the street, grabbing people by the arm and telling them (unsolicited) how relieved she is to not be the Democratic nominee because the hours stink so much and it frees her up to be Queen someday. Yeah, whatever.
on July 2, 2008 at 7:41 am tvp wrote:
Microsoft should stop buying (or trying to buy) companies that are about to die out on their own anyway.
Many people initially fell in love with Yahoo! not realizing that there were other sites out there offering all the same things and doing an even better job at it. Once that particular wave of new Internet users slowly stretched out and began exploring the Internet, they found out that it is actually possible to get along without EVER even visiting Yahoo!
For every service sector Yahoo! tries to serve, I can name a competitor that does it better.
You want online games like chess, backgammon, hearts, etc? Check out EA Games.
You want a comprehensive Internet search engine? Google is your friend.
You want to find a job? Can you say “Craigslist”?
You want to buy something? I heard of this one site that’s pretty good, it’s E-something…
You want to chat with someone? Your choices are endless, so why limit your conversations to people dumb enough to be stuck on Yahoo!?
I say that company is a total turkey. I sure wouldn’t want to buy it. (However, the advertising department that managed to draw so many people in may be a good place to headhunt for talent.)