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countrygirl said:
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081114/yahoo-layoffs-set-for-december-10-and-no-jerry-yang-is-not-leaving-too/

Here's a link on the layoffs.They will happen 4 days after the Christmas party. Nice huh!
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They should have a showing-of-hands over whether to have the Christmas party at all, knowing that these cuts are coming.

Then, those who vote yes, they're the ones who get laid off.
 
Joe Williams said:
countrygirl said:
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081114/yahoo-layoffs-set-for-december-10-and-no-jerry-yang-is-not-leaving-too/

Here's a link on the layoffs.They will happen 4 days after the Christmas party. Nice huh!
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As an aside: We just announced we're passing on parties and picnics or whatever the various outposts have had in 2008, and donating much of the savings to charity.
They should have a showing-of-hands over whether to have the Christmas party at all, knowing that these cuts are coming.

Then, those who vote yes, they're the ones who get laid off.
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Now that the dust has settled, any specifics on cutbacks regarding the sports operation at Yahoo?
 
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Fran Curci said:
Now that the dust has settled, any specifics on cutbacks regarding the sports operation at Yahoo?
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NASCAR side was gutted -- Jerry Bonkowski (big loss) and Bob Margolis (not so big loss) didn't have their contracts renewed ... Jay Hart, who was brought on just a few months ago to be the section editor, was kept on, but I understand he's having to oversee stuff other than NASCAR now ... now, all their content is coming from NASCAR.com and AP ...
 
Bonkowski is a huge loss. I don't really follow NASCAR, but I still enjoyed his stuff when I read it.
 
SportsGuyBCK said:
Fran Curci said:
Now that the dust has settled, any specifics on cutbacks regarding the sports operation at Yahoo?
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NASCAR side was gutted -- Jerry Bonkowski (big loss) and Bob Margolis (not so big loss) didn't have their contracts renewed ... Jay Hart, who was brought on just a few months ago to be the section editor, was kept on, but I understand he's having to oversee stuff other than NASCAR now ... now, all their content is coming from NASCAR.com and AP ...
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When people are losing their jobs because of economics and management fiat or whim, it's kind of rough to classify which ones are big losses and which ones might not be big losses, don't you think? Helluva time to kick someone, when he's down through no fault of his own. It's not like anyone here asked a pit crew chief about his daughter's choice of husbands.
 
I agree with SportsGuy, and what is the "From the Marbles" crap....now Yahoo's blogger added he will be writing 4 stories a day (you mean rewriting PR releases) and these blogs are more like chat lines if you read the comments. Most don't pertain to the story....which is a total joke. This stuff makes Fanhouse look like Pulitzer material.

He couldn't hold Bonkowski's or Margolis's jock, but because he comes cheap probably, he's now the new "star"? What a f-ing joke. Yahoo should be ashamed and embarrassed for letting those two guys go. I bet a lot of people that came to Yahoo for NASCAR news are going to go elsewhere. Why go to a place that gives you the same exact stuff its main competitor gives. Makes no sense at all. Yahoo basically gave up on NASCAR, and is making NASCAR.com more popular and richer. Stupid, stupid business move.

And what I really love is Busbee's "coup" to get Jenna Fryer on a Q & A on on his blog. Is she Yahoo's new guest columnist? How original....I thought AP is supposed to report the news, not make the news. Everyone picks her stuff up anyway because there's no other place to choose from so everyone is stuck having to go along with the same old kool-aid.
 
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