The rumor is true..

By the way, the rumor is true -- Laurie's escaped Yahoo. She has a new gig, which I'm sure she'll blog about once things settle down. Especially now that it looks like she doesn't have a management structure that considered even personal blogging against their personal standards (her old management had a bad case of "I don't care what yahoo's policy is... this is my policy")

One amusing insight into just how bad the brain drain at Yahoo is: For various reasons Laurie left mid-week, and in her exit interview, she was thanked for not leaving on a friday, because fridays have become hell for the HR staff trying to fit in all of the exit interviews.

Yahoo's tried to recruit me three times since the microsoft offer came down, which has mostly amused me, because when I was actively trying to hire in there, they didn't seem that interested. Now -- I'm not. ohwell.

Oh, a suggestion for Jerry: it's over. has been for a while. You're not making yahoo a better place or a stronger company, and it's time to quit killing the company in the name of trying to save it (or, from my view, save your own skin, since you seem willing to kill off huge parts of the company in the name of saving it, as long as you keep yours).

Take your huge buyout from Microsoft and go start a green tech company. That seems to be where you want to be these days, anyway....

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[chuqui]

except I'd have to leave my current job, and I like it too much...

[Derek]

If they're trying to hire you, give it a shot... if the acquisition happens, you'll have a crapton of acquisition-auto-vested stock options. If it doesn't happen, you can always leave. :-)