Yahoo CEO wants employees to come to work

[kelpdiver 2]

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Yep, Yahoo is doing terrible.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=YHOO+Interactive#symbol=yhoo;range=1y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

Big deal...it popped up to 21 due to actions like this being taken. Let's not forget that 5 years ago MS offered *31* a share for the company. Your perspective as a short term trader isn't meaningful to most.

The reality is that Yahoo was the cool company to work at ... in the 90s. Now it is generally the place to go to if you can't get something better, or if you don't want to have to work hard. Marisa needs to change that in order for the company to attract good people again.

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And in addition, at home I have use of my own double-width rack of networking gear where I can replicate issues, and test proposed changes. Every instance I've seen of attempts to set up labs at the office always result in gear being commandeered for "emergency" deployment, or "temporary" use, never to be seen again. The result is the only thing left in the company "lab" is broken junk.

How'd you get them to pay for that?

Yep, we run into the same situation with permenary and piduction projects.

I'm a teleworker and have worked remote from tons of places.

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

[ryoder 1,590]

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And in addition, at home I have use of my own double-width rack of networking gear where I can replicate issues, and test proposed changes. Every instance I've seen of attempts to set up labs at the office always result in gear being commandeered for "emergency" deployment, or "temporary" use, never to be seen again. The result is the only thing left in the company "lab" is broken junk.

How'd you get them to pay for that?

Note the phrase "my own".
Everything at home is my own property.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[kelpdiver 2]

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Note the phrase "my own".
Everything at home is my own property.

My Security group may take issue with that approach.

Of course, they take issue with any action that involves the transfer of data...not sure how they approved the customers' use of it.

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I'm glad I bought yahoo stock last year. I hope they continue do do so terrible

I'm glad your position is working out.

you completely missed my point.

Not at all. Buying stocks based on past performance is not a good strategy.

[ryoder 1,590]

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Note the phrase "my own".
Everything at home is my own property.

My Security group may take issue with that approach.

Of course, they take issue with any action that involves the transfer of data...not sure how they approved the customers' use of it.

I'm not transferring data.
I'm testing router/switch/firewall/proxy configurations.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[kelpdiver 2]

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I'm not transferring data.
I'm testing router/switch/firewall/proxy configurations.

network configs = data.

[ryoder 1,590]

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I'm not transferring data.
I'm testing router/switch/firewall/proxy configurations.

network configs = data.

I'm not copying configs from the company net.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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>She must be crazy wanting to people to actually come to work.

No, but she's pretty shortsighted. We have a lot of people who work remotely. We get better people for less money.

I dunno, I think Marisa knows what she is doing.
Besr in mind she has come from somewhere where flexible working is absolutely fine but the majority of people go to the office because of company culture and that they love it there.

While this is a bit draconian I agree that a) its a housecleaning exercise and b) a way to get dysfunctional teams firing again. I think they will go back to flexible working once she has sorted things out.

In my mind, Yahoo's biggest problem currently is that they don't really have anything that differentiates them, they are basically a me-too company.

Never try to eat more than you can lift

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>I think Marisa knows what she is doing.

>Besr in mind she has come from somewhere where flexible working is absolutely fine
> but the majority of people go to the office because of company culture and that they
>love it there.

That's fine. That works for many places.

However, a CEO who changes a workplace's policies based purely on "that's what I'm used to" may not make great decisions overall - especially in a in industry that's changing as rapidly as Yahoo's. It would be like discouraging email for company communications because "paper has always worked for us."

>I think they will go back to flexible working once she has sorted things out.

May be true.

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I am a software developer and I hate the commute to and from work and for sure there are times that I can easily do the work I need to do from home as long as I am motivated to get it done. But if you are working on a project where collaborating with others is required rather frequently throughout the day, it is so much better to all be in the same office.

There are pros and cons to telecommuting.

But I think we can all agree being stuck in traffic during the commute sucks.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

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I think they will go back to flexible working once she has sorted things out.

As was said above, "sorting things out" will functionally mean that the talented people will say "yeah... fuck this" and leave. And yeah, they'll go back to the work from home policy as soon as someone realizes they're making counter offers to their best folks over this issue.

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I'm glad I bought yahoo stock last year. I hope they continue do do so terrible

I'm glad your position is working out.

you completely missed my point.

Not at all. Buying stocks based on past performance is not a good strategy.

no, you missed my point completely and still dont get it. i am fully aware of your point, fyi. the stock is up since you bought it therefore YHOO is not doing poorly. good for you, as i stated before i am glad the position is working out for you. however, you are not the only metric by which most would judge the company. if i'm only permitted to use your stock performance to evaluate YHOO's performance, than we would agree, they are fine. However, i am not bound by that so we will not agree.

My point is more broad and complex than you are either willing to discuss or possibly understand. i dont know you so cant say which. it is possible you are just being humorous also, if so, i get it. i could tell you a ton of humorous stories how i had great months trading from the long side of companies that went under. ICGI and CMRC come to mind. they went up a lot too. you should google them. (notice i didnt say yahoo them)

im not trying to be rude, fyi. we are not discussing the same thing and that is my main point. i fully understand that stocks go up and down.

"The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird."
John Frusciante