I’m going to guess it’s a personalized page for people with yahoo accounts like the now defunct iGoogle.
Is there a my.yahoo for zombies?
Yahoo’s been on a downswing for years.
I’m not sure how any changes of whatever the hell my.yahoo is means she’s “ruining” Yahoo. A lot people would say it was well and truly fucked before she took the reins in the first place.
Like you said, it’s the pit.
When the hell did telecommuting become the exclusive domain of mothers of small children?
OP is bitching about a rule that says “we are paying you a salary. We expect you to be here during normal working hours”.
The horror! the horror!
Maybe she saw the numbers on just how much “work” these “telecommuting” employees are producing. I suspect a large number of “telecommuting” people do not do much, if any work.
I would not be surprised if a couple of them have figured out how to program their machines to keep their userids busy while they go to another job.
I once had a manager who came in at 9:00, hung up his coat, did his email, put on coat and leave. Repeat process at 3:00.
Then the (woman) who was his nominal boss got “disappeared” (never did find out why she suddenly left) and he was now a direct report to a (woman) who was one of the scariest bosses I’ve met. You know what you’re doing, and doing it right, she has you covered to Hell and back; screw up and Lord help you.
I was called into scary boss’s office to discuss tis dude - she had already filled a page of notes from talking to the folks before me - she had another half page when I left.
Then there was the guy working for the young boss who sent a nastygram to my boss re me. That guy and his manager were gone within a week. She was very effective.
I’m hoping the Yahoo boss is doing the same with kiss-off employees.
Yahoo needs a turnaround; dumping dead wood is a good start.
France has one of the highest productivity/hour in the world. So, that’s as much bullshit.
Well, if *you *don’t know…
Sounds like they won’t be for long.
Would your objection disappear if we called her an asshole.
The reason she is an asshole is because it is hypocritical to build a room for her hid next to her office and tell others that they can’t work from home.
It would be like getting rid of the employee’s parking lot and having the company limo pick you up and drop you off every day.
It sounds like an invitation to goldbrick.
It depends. A 10 year old doesn’t need a lot of supervision but you can’t just leave them at home alone. You might have a nanny for a newborn but still want to breastfeed for 30 minutes 2 or 3 times during the workday. If you are telecommuting with kids than need constant interaction, then yeah, you just need to choose between being a stay at home mom or a working mom that pays for childcare.
The “c” word?:eek:
I view “bitch” as the feminine equivalent of “prick” or “bastard”.
Personally, while I like the flexibility of being able to work from home time to time, I find it extremely difficult to manage teams of people with everyone, including the client, spread across multiple cities and countries. It is extremely inefficient to work when all communication has to be by email or WebEx call.
When did anyone say that?
Yes, the horror. A reasonable way of working that makes life easier is being denied for no good reason.
Who cares what you suspect?
She could have just said they need to work as hard at home as in the office. If she has such numbers, she’s obviously able to monitor them easily.
You mean like people have been job-searching from their offices since the beginning of time?
So productivity isn’t assured by making people come to an office either.
So what? That was a guy who worked in the office! How’s that help your case?
Again, relevance?
It’s not. By assuming telecommuting = lazy, it’s turning off some very good employees who are able to work at home effectively, while not catching losers who waste time at the office.
It’s a dumb mistake. And you’re making it too.
The saddest part is that a tech company did this. Tech made telecommuting possible, and some tech companies have embraced it.
I’m sure alot of Yahoo employees can easily find jobs at a more worker-friendly tech company. Heck, they’ll probably find a place that not only allows telecommuting, but has some stupid lounge and game room for employees to goof off in.
Let’s check the progress of our gold plated bitch, shall we?
Yahoo Sales Top Estimates as Mayer Pushes Turnaround:
I’ll be gol-durned! Making people show up for work can be detected in the bottom line :smack:
Wow, she is awesome, making $6.77B of net income on $1.09B of revenue. That’s a nice trick, having -$5.68B of cost in a quarter.
Wait, she got a $9B boost from selling their stake in Alibaba, I don’t suppose that had anything to do with it.
Operationally, their revenues are up 1.5% yty and their stock is down 1% this year, compared to +5% for the S&P. Truly amazing performance.
Try2B, maybe you should stop commenting on topics you know nothing about.
Uh, her faltering company beat estimates. Better than we can say for guys like Tom Gutierrez.
I know next to nothing about the health of tech companies. But I just looked at Yahoo’s stock since this thread began, and it has roughly doubled.
You seem to be saying that Yahoo isn’t doing a turnaround, but the stock price has indeed doubled. I’m unclear on how one squares that circle. Can you explain why you think he is wrong?
No kidding, a CEO is one of our regular members? **Do **go on.
Her faltering company beat the street’s estimates, which already incorporated the idea that the company was faltering.
Beating estimates is not an inherent measure of how well you’re running a company, it’s a measure of how well you’re running the company compared to the street’s most recent estimate of how well you’re running the company.
…and therefore contradicting that idea, no?
Okay, but I’m comparing the stock price doubling since March 2013 to your assertion that everyone knows that Yahoo is failing (obviously my words and not yours, but I’m trying to rely what I think is your gist).
If Mayer is failing to revive Yahoo, I’m not following why they are beating even very modest estimates and why people seem to want the stock quite a bit more than they did 18 months ago. What I think you’re saying is that someone must have no clue about what they are talking about if they conclude that Yahoo is doing better today than in early 2013, and I’m not following why that’s such a bad conclusion.
I think a big part of that is the one-time gain from the Alibaba sale.