Yahoo! Cutting Jobs

American Voices

January 25, 2008 | ISSUE 44•05

Yahoo!, the popular internet portal site, plans to trim its workforce by 10 to 20 percent at the end of the month. What do you think?

The exclamation point they insist on putting at the end of the company name seems so hollow and disingenuous now.

Marcia Wolstencroft
Systems Analyst
With my luck, they'll probably get rid of the guy who could tell me how to get rid of that goddamn toolbar from my browser.

Simon Bush
Cabinet Installer
Oh no! Does this mean that dot-com bubble of the '90s is about to burst?

Dave Schofield
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