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Reason for Leaving Last Job: Workforce "Realignment"

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Our outlook contemplates a workforce realignment of approximately 1,000 people that we will be implementing in mid-February.”

Yahoo CFO Blake Jorgensen

The streets outside Yahoo’s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters will soon be running purple with the blood of the “realigned.” The company will begin handing out pink slips today to the roughly 1,000 employees worldwide whose jobs are being eliminated.

What was it again that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang wrote in his latest all-hands memo?

You deserve the credit for the tremendously valuable business we have built. All of us in management, as well as the members of the board, deeply appreciate and respect what you have done and continue to do in order to maintain and enhance Yahoo’s leadership position in the online world.”


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— Ashton Kutcher’s investing philosophy