Yahoo! Lays Off 14% Of Workforce

American Voices • Opinion • ISSUE 48•14 • Apr 6, 2012

Internet giant Yahoo! announced it would lay off 2,000 workers in order to save $375 million annually. What do you think?

“So long as they don’t ax the person who keeps me up-to-date on the Kardashians when I go to check my e-mail.”
Kristen Gordon –
Systems Analyst
“Internet business is hard. I've had to fire my wife 10 times over the past year.”
Evan Fox –
Shaft Mechanic
“Thankfully, given the renewed unsustainable bubble in Internet stocks, they should be able to quickly find new jobs with disastrously overvalued companies like Groupon, Yelp, or Zynga for a couple months before being fired again.”
Stuart Herman –
Laboratory Assistant

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