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"The message here is that if you want to work at a company where people are doing big and important things, you have to give up everything. It’s okay to say tha
by silverbax88 14y ago
"The message here is that if you want to work at a company where people are doing big and important things, you have to give up everything. It’s okay to say that."
No, it isn't.
Yahoo! is certainly not doing 'big and important' things. They are a search engine that can't figure out how to get it's rapidly decreasing market share from rapidly decreasing. And the CEO wants everyone in the company to give up everything - happiness, work life balance, a life outside of search engine work -for that cause.
Unless Yahoo! decides they don't need you all of sudden - you know, if headcount is too high or they decide your department isn't part of the 'goal'. Then they can cut you loose, despite the fact that you gave up everything for them.
So, translation: Yahoo! and other companies want you to give up everything for them, but they will give up nothing.
Deeper translation: Yahoo! is doomed.
- erock 14y agoIt's also not OK to give up everything. This statement makes it seem like it's OK to try to get water from a stone
- Roritharr 14y agoEspecially if the CEO creates services at her workplace to mitigate her own need to give up her own family life [1]. [1] http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/marissa-mayer-yahoo-ceo-telecommuting-nursery http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-...
- snowwrestler 14y agoI'm so, so, sick of this line of argument. Remote work has nothing to do with raising kids or family life.
- bengillies 14y agoAs long as the person saying it understands that the majority of people already working at said company, and the majority of people who would otherwise be interested no longer will be, I think it's fine.
- seanp2k2 14y ago>"I'm going to be frank: because I have several dozen recruiter emails piling up in my inbox, and that's just from the last week. I have people swinging large six-figure paychecks in front of my nose day in, day out, all of whom are doing interesting things. I'd take them all if I could clone myself 100 times over." > So, translation: Yahoo! and other companies want you to give up everything for them, but they will give up nothing. Deeper translation: Yahoo! is doomed. slow clap
- Draiken 14y agoExactly. The article assumes the most important thing is the company at all times. Just because there are people that are willing to give up everything for a company, it doesn't make it right for companies to expect everyone to be like them. This just shows how wrong our society is. Corporativism in it's true form.
- walls 14y ago> They are a search engine Yahoo's search has been Bing for almost 3 years.