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post #41 of 72
9/7/11 at 12:03pm
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Originally Posted by Mazda 3s View Post

To all,

I am very sad to tell you that Ive just been fired over the phone by Microsoft's Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.

Steve

Sent from my Zune

Except that Zune has no email capabilities
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post #42 of 72
9/7/11 at 12:08pm
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Originally Posted by UIGuy View Post

Not sure what is more disturbing...

Having a CEO who had to be fired by phone - or having a Chairman that didn't know to contact HR/IT and have her network privileges revoked first...

I thought CEOs where allowed to "leave to spend more time with their families." which is standard corporate talk for "fired".
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post #43 of 72
9/7/11 at 12:13pm
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Originally Posted by Mazda 3s View Post

To all,

I am very sad to tell you that Ive just been fired over the phone by Microsoft's Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.

Steve

Sent from my Zune

Sent from my Slate

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post #44 of 72
9/7/11 at 12:15pm
Perhaps I misheard the Lines of the song . Something about the brave and free and America . Perhaps I thinking of an other country ,,,, Oh well someday I will get it right !!!
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post #45 of 72
9/7/11 at 12:24pm
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What would make this even funnier would be if it too was signed "Sent from my iPad"

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post #46 of 72
9/7/11 at 12:37pm
I want to know exactly how the conversation went, because at some point, I bet Bartz provided a very quotable and profanity laced line.



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post #47 of 72
9/7/11 at 12:41pm
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton View Post

I thought CEOs where allowed to "leave to spend more time with their families." which is standard corporate talk for "fired".

While this may work for male executives, I would never, ever, ever try this with a female executive - too high a chance that it would be considered / construed as condescending - regardless of how it was intended.

Nope, just 'fired'.
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post #48 of 72
9/7/11 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by tcphoto View Post

Poor Carol, how much is her severance package worth?

A decent amount:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/07/tech...rtz_severance/

That's the thing when you reach this level of pay: if you do a good job, you earn millions, if you do a bad job, you walk away with millions. If only we all had the opportunity to become bad CEOs.

You even get to have dinner with Steve Jobs and the US president.
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post #49 of 72
9/7/11 at 1:03pm
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Originally Posted by Marvin View Post

... If only we all had the opportunity to become bad CEOs.

You even get to have dinner with Steve Jobs and the US president.

I see what you did there, very slick

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post #50 of 72
9/7/11 at 1:27pm
I would not like to be CEO of a company like Yahoo. No products you can hold in your hand, just a website. Being forced to swamp your own customers with advertising, just to make ends meet. What a nightmare job.
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post #51 of 72
9/7/11 at 1:30pm
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Originally Posted by UIGuy View Post

They need to regroup. Get rid of the clown pants interface. And make me want to use their product again.

What exactly IS their product? Search? Please. I don't know anyone who uses yahoo search. I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't know anyone who even knows yahoo has a search engine. Yahoo is a 1990's web company that never found its way into the next decade. And that was a decade AGO. Yahoo tried to be all things to all people and it failed to excel at any of them. Yahoo became a brand name without a brand. It's like that car commercial from the 90s where they didn't actually show the car, except that in yahoo's case, there is no car.

The real story isn't that Yahoo fired its CEO by phone. The real story is that they didn't keep swinging the axe. Everyone in management there should be blown out.
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post #52 of 72
9/7/11 at 1:39pm
Yahoo needs a complete marketing overhaul and possibly a name change. I never cared for the word "yahoo" it's kinda cheesy.
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post #53 of 72
9/7/11 at 1:50pm
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I would not like to be CEO of a company like Yahoo. No products you can hold in your hand, just a website. Being forced to swamp your own customers with advertising, just to make ends meet. What a nightmare job.

That's exactly what Yahoo should do: buy a struggling handset manufacturer and sell an iPhone ripoff called the YahooPhone. Everyone else is doing it. Plus HP is trying to unload Palm.
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post #54 of 72
9/7/11 at 1:55pm
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Except that Zune has no email capabilities

The Zune HD does.

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post #55 of 72
9/7/11 at 2:18pm
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I thought CEOs where allowed to "leave to spend more time with their families." which is standard corporate talk for "fired".

At our place it's "Exploring other opportunities"
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post #56 of 72
9/7/11 at 2:26pm
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Originally Posted by cvaldes1831 View Post

Yahoo Search is my default as well. Works well enough in most situations. If I think Yahoo is not giving me good results, I'll try Bing then Scroogle. The last thing I'll do is try Google.

Ironically when you use Yahoo you are actually using Bing anyway because Yahoo partnered with M$ a few years ago.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/29/tech...ahoo/index.htm

I quite like Blekko.
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post #57 of 72
9/7/11 at 2:29pm
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Originally Posted by Splash-reverse View Post

Who's here use Yahoo Search? Quick poll....

Stopped using it years ago when it started returning nothing but sites who paid to be listed. Sadly Google is now starting to go the same direction, though at least they don't fill my screen with pictures I don't care about.

I've tried Bing a couple of times but the format of their page is horrid, they seem to think the average user is still working on an 800x600 screen. I also hate that it shows pictures in with the sites, if I want to see pictures then I click the images option (which tries to be way too fancy). Typical Microsoft, they threw all their money at advertising & forgot to pay their UI people.
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post #58 of 72
9/7/11 at 2:31pm
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At least it wasn't via text message.

Man doesn't that suck being dumped by text message. I have been there and it sucks like you can't believe.
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post #59 of 72
9/7/11 at 3:16pm
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Who's here use Yahoo Search? Quick poll....

Me....always have been since using www even with people bitching about Google.
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post #60 of 72
9/7/11 at 3:19pm
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What would make this even funnier would be if it too was signed "Sent from my iPad"

Won't fit in pocket so can't hide but iPhone4 he sure can receive his firing call and the quikie email away from public eyes...
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post #61 of 72
9/7/11 at 5:54pm
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Originally Posted by Splash-reverse View Post

Who's here use Yahoo Search? Quick poll....

Not I, in fact I thought Yahoo dissolved when they cut off yahoo messenger chat rooms. lol

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At least it wasn't via text message.

I agree that calling was low rent. Who makes phone calls anymore?! I'm surprised a tweet wasn't leaked by the Chairman of the Board: "Can I call Carol and fire her now?"

The call probably went like this (to the Yahoo-o-o jingle): "You're Fii-i-ired!"
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post #62 of 72
9/7/11 at 6:07pm
Not used yahoo for years! I remember reading somewhere about yahoo still having a huge number of people using their email services.

Yahoo reminds me of the 90's so much.... Alta vista, metacrawler, geocities, AOL, 28.8k dialup, icq, Asianavenue, mIRC...... Bliss
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post #63 of 72
9/7/11 at 8:50pm
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Originally Posted by bluedalmatian View Post

My thoughts exacty. Any 'normal' down to earth person would say 'for the future'. Its only up-their-own-ass business suits that come out with phrases like that, becasue they think using phrases like that makes them sound good. you dont need to speak business twaddle to make money


i cant imagine jobs saying 'going forward' or 'actioning'

If it was possible to do a facebook Like on a post I would have done it to this. Jobs showed what we all know: that real leaders of companies speak English, not Business-ese, that this crap way of speaking is the sign of both a low IQ and even lower humanity.
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post #64 of 72
9/7/11 at 9:28pm
She is cute for a 62-yr old.

No biggie, she will get another job.

Yahoo was dead already before she arrived. It will take a miracle to resurrect the dead.
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post #65 of 72
9/7/11 at 9:28pm
The Chairman of the Board should be fired for being a cowardly little prick that doesn't have the balls to fire someone over the phone.
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post #66 of 72
9/8/11 at 1:04am
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Sent from my Kin?

At least not sent from *next* of kin...
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post #67 of 72
9/8/11 at 1:09am
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Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Kubrick View Post

The Chairman of the Board should be fired for being a cowardly little prick that doesn't have the balls to fire someone over the phone.

Yup, and it wasn't chivalrous one bit. Not that Carol should have got preferential treatment, but a gentleman would have at least taken her out for coffee before dumping her.

On a unrelated note, I admit I was unable to do this with one of my ex-girlfriends because she was already freaking out and calling me 10 times an hour before I could even try and communicate "we should take a break".
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post #68 of 72
9/8/11 at 2:18am
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Originally Posted by UIGuy View Post

Not sure what is more disturbing...

Having a CEO who had to be fired by phone - or having a Chairman that didn't know to contact HR/IT and have her network privileges revoked first...

It would have been better if she had been fired by Yahoo Messenger... At least they would've been using their own product!

"There were a lot of zingers thrown Yahoo's way tonight after the embattled Internet company announced CEO Carol Bartz's firing. Several people used it as an opportunity to take a stab at Yahoo services, particularly Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail. "Yahoo fired its CEO via a phone call, they were going to use Yahoo Messenger but couldn't find anyone with it installed," tweeted Paul Haddad."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...#ixzz1XLq2WhPy
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post #69 of 72
9/9/11 at 12:03am
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Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Kubrick View Post

Yahoo needs a complete marketing overhaul and possibly a name change. I never cared for the word "yahoo" it's kinda cheesy.

It's not a word, it's an acronym for:
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
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post #70 of 72
9/10/11 at 8:41am
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Originally Posted by UIGuy View Post

Not sure what is more disturbing...

Having a CEO who had to be fired by phone - or having a Chairman that didn't know to contact HR/IT and have her network privileges revoked first...

But seriously, Yahoo has great potential. I liken them to a pile of Legos sitting in the corner - a great opportunity... But most people will just build something that nobody else recognizes.

They need to regroup. Get rid of the clown pants interface. And make me want to use their product again.

Actually, she was given some time to decide if she would resign herself. She even switched hotel to avoid being served with termination papers, and used that time to send the email. Having said this, it is quite common that the Chairman would not know how to contact HR/IT directly. In many cases, the Chair of a company would step foot on the premises less than 10 times a year, unless the Chair and CEO are one and the same.
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post #71 of 72
9/10/11 at 8:43am
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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie View Post

It's not a word, it's an acronym for:
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

It's not truly an acronym. They picked the name Yahoo first and invented something after the fact to make it sound legit.
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post #72 of 72
9/11/11 at 3:45am
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Originally Posted by stelligent View Post

It's not truly an acronym. They picked the name Yahoo first and invented something after the fact to make it sound legit.

Aha! Didn't know that. Guess it both is a bit lame, at least to me. Not as lame though as Zuckerbergs' I'm the CEO - bitch! business card (or whatever). Yep, to me facebook tops it all. Even Google, but I digress.
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