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Yahoo Management's Layoff Instructions (YHOO)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Yahoo management put together a deck to instruct its managers how to conduct layoffs. Valleywag's Owen Thomas landed a leaked copy. ...
News Bits: Bebo's New One-Stop Social Shop
Contentinople: —
... at Yahoo, which means some 1,500 employees will say good-bye to their jobs sometime in the next 12 to 18 hours. And now we have the company's instructions on how to let employees go , courtesy of Valleywag . Included in the slides are Yahoo's suggested messaging to sacked employees (Boss: "Hello, Ryan. I need to talk with you about something important..." Employee: "Hrm, I wonder what this could be about?"), as well as some dos and don'ts (DO: Own the discussion; DON'T: Own the employee's feelings). Very few fans will be able to watch the NBA All-Star Game live and ...
Another Sad Day For Yahoo: Layoffs Begin, While Employees Vent
BoomTown —
... Valleywag has apparently obtained the script for those exits, which–as typical as they are for these situations–truly bleed purple. ...
How To Fire People
Silicon Alley Insider —
... In any event, thanks to Yahoo's layoff consultants, we now have a step-by-step guide. Valleywag published most of the slide show here. It's worth reading the whole thing, but here's the most important part: What to say. ...
Yahoo Layoffs Today May Not Be Last
Bits —
... to laid off employees on the company’s blog. If you want to know how managers are supposed to notify employees whose jobs are being cut, check out Valleywag . Many investors say the layoffs were a necessary cost-cutting measure, but argue that a more dramatic change will be needed to turn Yahoo’s fortunes around. On Wednesday, Ivory Investment Management, a Los Angeles-based fund that owns about 21.4 million shares, or about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, urged the board to ...
Being Yang means never having to say you're sorry to departing Yahoos
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... If ever there was an appropriate moment for Jerry Yang's famous lower-case missives, it is now when the struggling Internet company is feeling about as low as you can get.
Today is the day when 1,500 purple-bleeding employees officially get their pink slips. So the soon-to-be-replaced CEO and founder sent out this e-mail to Yahoos with no reason to yodel as their colleagues get sacked, Yahoo-style.
Among the casualties: a still unknown number in Santa Monica and, reports Mike Arrington, at the Brickhouse in ...
Jerry Yang: Yahoo! Layoffs Were 'Unfortunately Unavoidable'
AppScout —
... UPDATE: Valleywag got a hold of some PowerPoint slides Yahoo made up with a list of do's and don'ts when laying off employees. ...
Yahoo's plan to 'get fit': go on a crash diet
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... are hardest hit, while Owen Thomas at Valleywag has the scripted PowerPoint for managers on how to do the firing (in short, if your manager says "I have some information about the organisation that I want to tell you personally," then run for the hills.) ...
That’s not yodeling, it’s ululating
GMSV —
It starts with a phone call or maybe a cubicle visit from the boss: “I need to talk with you about something very important are you available right now? I have some information about the organization that I want to tell you personally.” And if you’re at Yahoo today, you know what’s coming next : “challenging year … tough decisions … your position is one of those being eliminated.” Then it’s a hearty thank-you, an introduction to the outplacement consultant and two hours to get your gear and clear out. It’s ...
Yang: Layoffs ‘very hard,’ ‘very necessary’
Between the Lines —
... , Yahoo! Inc. , Workforce Management , Human Resources , Larry Dignan Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang on Wednesday confirmed the company’s layoffs in the U.S. were underway and said the restructuring was “ very hard, but they are also very necessary .” Yahoo’s job cuts, reportedly 1,500 or so, are essentially being broadcast live via Twitter , blogs like BoomTown , Silicon Alley Insider and Valleywag, which even has the slides detailing how a manager should cut a worker ( Techmeme ). In Yang’s letter to ...
Yahoo Layoffs result in Epic Sensitivity Fail
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... The delightful Yahoo slides as follows (via Valleywag). If you’re completely inept at laying people off, maybe you can use them as well ...
Inc.com Blogs: The New Bebo, Yahoo Layoffs, and Bailouts
Inc.com —
... , Valleywag has the answer . Based on the documents it looks like Yahoo is using firing consultants to smooth things over once the deed is done, a practice you can read more about ...
“Thank you, reader, for coming in…”
The Next Web —
... The text you just read is straigh out the Yahoo! “How to Fire Employees for Dummies” manual. Condensed into a few easy to understand PowerPoint slides. Valleywag obtained the slides (clearly marked “Yahoo! Confidential. Do Not Forward”) and published them on their blog. Here is one of the the slides: ...
The craziest Yahoo layoff stories [Rumormonger]
Gawker: valleywag —
... before the mat-leave was to end, I got the layoff-speech. - The temp-manager made sure to re-org (another typical yahoo move), and give herself a new managerial role, so that when the mat-leave does end, that person now reports to the person who was her temp-replacement. And from Southeast Asia, word comes that people had access to Yahoo's Backyard intranet a day before the layoffs. That also happened in the U.S. in February's layoffs. The leaked layoff instructions we ran proved helpful: I too received the tell-tale ...
