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Getting Fired At Yahoo: A Twitter Log
- lyime 19y agoThat is sad but this story just makes twitter even more awesome. There is something about it, i cant really seem to understand why its so popular but its amazing. I am pretty sure that because of twitter he will find a job in no time.
- jgrahamc 19y agoI'm blown away by your comment. I felt like the entire thing made the writer seem vacuous (or perhaps it's the medium and not the author that's the problem).
- bayareaguy 19y agoI can't decide if the first comment Sad that yahoo is firing such productive employees. is serious or sarcastic.
- apathy 19y agoI'm thinking the latter. Hopefully that IP routes to Yahoo HR. golf clap
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- donal 19y agoHe was posting to his network of friends/subscribers and the columnist grabbed the thread and decided to show it to the world. Twitter is an odd medium, most people's audience is their friends, but then it is also a public forum. Like having a conversation through a megaphone in a crowded public park. Everyone can hear you, but it is still a chat with friends. That line about people whispering because they are afraid to find out who is gone is fantastic. Perhaps it isn't Twitter, but the way journalists have been using it?
- lyime 19y agoNaw man, I didn't mean it in that way. When you choose twitter as a medium to post those stories, you should know that the whole world can possibly read it. I am really confused where my comment thread is going...?
- Tichy 19y agoHe will be a lot better off if he stops drinking so much coffee...
- jmzachary 19y agoA new form of literature? I hope not. That was boring. Twitter is a vacuous way to waste time reading about boring details of stranger's lives.
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- nirmal 19y agoIt's a new way to kill the last remnants of thought out sentences. Paragraphs are SO last year.
- henning 19y ago@nirmal eh, whatever. hey you wanna go ride bikes??
- wallflower 19y agoStartup idea: Convince celebrities (A,B,C-list) to twitter (Significant privacy issues aside)
- yters 19y agoLike reality tv is a new form of theatre.
- xirium 19y agoFrom the article: "Trying to drown it in free lattes. Which I will miss." I miss the huge amount of free tea that I drunk in my last job. I'm sure that the caffeine boost paid for itself.
- apathy 19y agoYou do realize that loose tea is very inexpensive, yes?
- xirium 19y agoI was using about eight Twinings' Earl Grey tea bags per day, five or six days per week.
- alaskamiller 19y agowhen i was wee lad i worked as a beantrees barista and shift manager at yahoo. prior to the move up north to sunnyvale, the cafes were located in the cafeteria/break room of each building and we also managed the multiple coffee stations on every floor. we went through at least 20 gallons of milk each day per station and served quite a lot of lattes. the indian engineers loved the oregon chai tea, which was actually quite expensive compared to the espresso. at the end of the week we would report total costs and yahoo would just pay the bills, i think it was close to 100,000 a month. most of us just took home extras, whip cream or coffee or milk.
- josefresco 19y agomaybe Y! canned him because he was drinking too many free lattes and twittering at least 18 times a day. /tongue firmly in cheek
- hollywoodcole 19y agoTongue-in-cheek... I guess thats a British thing.
- sspencer 19y agoNo, that's American slang as well. It just means "speaking purely in jest" or as I think of it "trying not to laugh." At least, that's my understanding of the meaning.
- josefresco 19y agommmm correct, I'm sure Y! encourages social participation and a well caffeinated workforce.