I am very sad to tell you that I?ve 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.
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 !!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not I, in fact I thought Yahoo dissolved when they cut off yahoo messenger chat rooms. lol
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Originally Posted by sheff
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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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".
To all,
I am very sad to tell you that I?ve 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
What would make this even funnier would be if it too was signed "Sent from my iPad"
gc
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'.
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.
... 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
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.
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.
Except that Zune has no email capabilities
The Zune HD does.
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"
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.
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.
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.
Who's here use Yahoo Search? Quick poll....
Me....always have been since using www even with people bitching about Google.
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...
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
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!"