Yahoo Lays Off 600; Free Beers and Jobs Flow

CWmike writes "Yahoo confirmed on Tuesday that it has laid off 600 people, following news reports often based on Twitter messages from employees who had been let go. The layoffs amount to about 4 percent of the company's global workforce, Yahoo said. The company said affected workers are receiving severance packages and outplacement services. Laid-off workers may find some comfort on Twitter, where they are receiving an outpouring of goodwill. One San Francisco brewery is offering a free beer to people from Yahoo who show their termination letters. People with companies including Aprendi Learning, Tucows.com, DirecTV, Combine Couture, OMGPOP.com, and Uptake.com all posted Twitter messages expressing interest in hiring former Yahoo employees. The site Quora is hosting a thread for companies in the San Francisco area interested in hiring laid-off Yahoo workers. So far, there are 14 posts about jobs with companies including Yammer, Mozilla, and Cloudera."

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Re:Beer is good.

[Chrisq]

Well, it's not like they're going to jump under a bus after having one beer. It's more like a token of sympathy which, along with supportive messages can go a long way in the other direction.

That's what I heard until I read that 90% of those sacked were Muslims, and the other 10% had connections with other terrorist groups.