Yahoo! Lays Off 14% Of Workforce

American VoicesOpinion 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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