Yahoo! Cutting Jobs

Friday, January 25, 2008

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?

Marcia Wolstencroft,
Systems Analyst
"The exclamation point they insist on putting at the end of the company name seems so hollow and disingenuous now."

Simon Bush,
Cabinet Installer
"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."

Dave Schofield,
Wardrobe Consultant
"Oh no! Does this mean that dot-com bubble of the '90s is about to burst?"

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