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Yahoo: "Let Us Eat and Drink, for Tomorrow Your Jobs Die"

John Paczkowski in News on December 9, 2008 at 12:05 am PT

Come Wednesday, Yahoo will sack some 1,500 employees, depriving them of their livelihoods and turning them into data points on a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment graph. That it will do this amid the worst recession in 50 years is understandable. That it will do it four days after a lavish holiday party is astonishing. Appalling, actually.

Yahoo: “Let Us Eat and Drink, for Tomorrow Your Jobs Die”

John Paczkowski in News on December 9, 2008 at 12:05 am PT

Come Wednesday, Yahoo will sack some 1,500 employees, depriving them of their livelihoods and turning them into data points on a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment graph. That it will do this amid the worst recession in 50 years is understandable. That it will do it four days after a lavish holiday party is astonishing. Appalling, actually.

RealDepressing: The Entire RealNetworks Layoff Memo

John Paczkowski in News on December 4, 2008 at 5:25 pm PT

Earlier this afternoon, Peter Kafka reported in Media Memo that RealNetworks was “next up in today’s layoff parade.” Here’s the official internal memo from RealNetworks founder, chairman and CEO, Rob Glaser.