Update: now on 2.8.5 – woooo!!!
Growing tired of the constant WordPress updating! Sigh…
See the changelog for details on what is new in this release. Honestly I didn’t even read it. Instead I chose to fall asleep while watching the jazzy intro video.
Rejoice, Governator: I will be paying the state tax after all. Job prospects here in Texas are not all that great for Anne. In contrast, she has a number of opportunities in California. So, since it don’t matter where I work from now that I’m officially a telecommuting Yahoo!, we will be heading back west next week, after my uncle and aunt return from their trip to Europe.
This time, we intend to take the northern route, via Oklahoma and Salt Lake City. As usual, stay tuned to the Twitter for updates!
We have decided to move back to Austin, TX. Our appartement lease is up, all the stuff is in boxes, and I’m getting ready for the transition from too much Sushi to too much Mexican food.
I’ll still be working (remotely) for Yahoo!.
The dot in the middle of the map is Roswell, NM – where we will obviously stop for some dorky tourist trap. For realtime updates during the roadtrip follow the Twitter.
I was not laid off today, but another set of co-workers were, including my immediate counterpart. Bits Blog (NYTimes.com) thinks that the Yahoo Layoffs Today May Not Be Last…
Yahoo began laying off 1,500 workers on Wednesday as part of a plan, announced in October, to slash expenses by $400 million a year. The cost cutting, however, may have to go deeper in the coming year.
“There could be additional staff reductions next year,” said Brad Williams, a Yahoo spokesman. “It depends on the decisions we make about prioritization, and on things we can’t predict in the economy.” Mr. Williams added: “We are trying to instill a culture of cost-discipline in our business.” [He] also said that the job cuts today will affect most parts of the company, but that Yahoo executives are still evaluating which projects will be de-emphasized or cut altogether. “This is more of a cost reduction rather than business prioritization,” he said about the layoffs. “Business prioritization will continue going forward. We are looking at businesses we may put into maintenance mode.”
Yahoo’s chief executive, Jerry Yang, penned a farewell note to laid-off employees on the company’s blog. If you want to know how managers are supposed to notify employees whose jobs are being cut, check out Valleywag.
Sad day.
Yahoo! said Monday evening that Jerry Yang, its chief executive, would step down from that role after the company finds a replacement.
Mr. Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo!, assumed control of the company a year and a half ago from Terry Semel, a Hollywood studio boss that he hand-picked for the job. His tenure has been a tumultuous period during which Yahoo! rejected a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft and failed to cement an advertising partnership with Google.