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Yahoo's shocking memo
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2013/05/29 - 8:25am
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I just got my first peek at Yahoo's memo explaining that there is no longer to be any work-from-home employees.
Yahoo's memo

It is shocking, unprofessional, and demoralizing. And it is that with the first nonboilerplate word: Yahoos. Really? Yahoos? It goes on to say "Being a Yahoo isn't just about your day-to-day job, ... ."

Is calling your employees Yahoos (capitalized) supposed to be clever humor? If I were an employee, I would not be amused. How about it if upper management reserves the term "Yahoos" for themselves, and refers to their salaried and contract workers as "employees" or "professionals." How humorous would that be?

"We Yahoos have decided that our employees ... ."

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2013/05/29 - 11:11am
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David Filo , 1 of the founders, still calls himself  Chief Yahoo.
I believe Jerry Yang also called himself that.
If I get paid enough (as probably most of them do), I wouldn't mind it.
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