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Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food"

Posted by Unknown on from the ms-outlook-is-godzilla dept.

nk497 writes "Only 25% of Yahoo staff have obeyed the company's request to 'eat their own dog food' and switch to Yahoo Mail, a colorful internal memo has revealed. The leaked email, acquired by All Things Digital, implores staff to move over to the corporate version of Yahoo's webmail system, gently lambasting staff who refuse to part with Microsoft Outlook. The message goes on to take a swipe at what appears to be Yahoo employees' preferred mail client, Microsoft Outlook, describing it as 'anachronism of the now defunct 90s PC era, a pre-web program written at a time when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son's utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl.'"

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  1. What the hell is IN that dogfood? by themushroom · · Score: 4, Funny

    when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son's utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl.

    I think that dogfood's gone bad and grown some mushrooms. Also, how does a T-Rex imitate a Pterodactyl... flapping its little arms vainly?

    Rawr.

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  2. Re:Wagging the dog. by game+kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Expecting "reasonable" from Marissa Mayer's Yahoo is like expecting "class 1 laser emission" from Marisa Kirisame's Master Spark.

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  3. Re:Wagging the dog. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another reasonable approach from might be to task, "How does our service need to change, in order for our own employees to want to use it?"

    The more appropriate phrase in this case should be: "Eat Their Own Dog Poo".

  4. cat turds are dogfood, according to many dogs by themushroom · · Score: 1, Funny

    Next analogy down the pike: Marissa in the corner, licking her own balls.

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  5. Mail? by JBMcB · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure the employee's reaction was the same as everyone else's: Yahoo still has email?

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