Lots of comments about how this is unfair.
Sure. But could it work?
Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit in next 60 days
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#82Re: Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit in next 60 days
#83While I hadn't ever heard of Yammer, just one look at the home page makes it seem as though it's a Facebook rip-off (no other way to really say it) just for use in a corporate setting.
Seems as though he's just a little worried that if Facebook bows to the patents his company will be next on Yahoo's hit list.
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#84While it's a perfectly fine choice to ostracize Yahoo for their actions, Yammer's CEO is going to end up looking like little more than a hypocrite at the least, and maybe a dipshit, if he doesn't apply the same rules to all companies equally based on behavior. The odds the CEO will apply the same rule to all other companies acting with patent belligerence? Approximately zero. They'd need a substantial piece of tracki…
It can be done. Look at the US. Ever had to fill out, 'Not a member of the Nazi Party between 1933-1945? The US Citizenship test in no way makes the US look like a 'serious jerkwad.'
Nice, pretty solid bit of Godwin's Law trolling. I'm not interested in debating this to the level of detail that will spare me being called a nazi by someone on the internet, so suffice it to say that _any_ blacklist based on generalized attributes and affiliations will unfairly target innocents.
Companies have lots of tactics to shorten applicant stacks ("wrote a personalized cover letter", "minimum 12yrs experience HTML5", "name printed in blue"). Power to Yammer if they want to add "dates employed at yahoo" to the list - talented folks will have little trouble finding work.
Re: Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit in next 60 days
#85While I hadn't ever heard of Yammer, just one look at the home page makes it seem as though it's a Facebook rip-off (no other way to really say it) just for use in a corporate setting. Seems as though he's just a little worried that if Facebook bows to the patents his company will be next on Yahoo's hit list.
And worse, the whole layout is a Facebook ripoff. My girlfriend uses Yammer for work and when I took a closer look at it today it seems that most of the IU elements are 1 to 1 copies of Facebook. Pretty sad to be honest.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
"If my employer suddenly got into the business of mulching orphans for fertilizer, I'd consider it my personal responsibility to quit/move on as soon as possible." You mean you wouldn't leave the same day? What's the point of using an example like that?
Using humorous examples generally increases understanding. See http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20151750?uid=3739560&#... (or your local psych textbooks :p)
The comparison made and context is ridiculous. Why not make it "funnier" then? "If my employer got into the business of raping children then...or "If my employer walked into a high school and..." The point being made by the OP is pretty obvious and doesn't require humor to increase understanding.
Humor might enhance learning of a harder to grasp concept. If done appropriately.
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#87What a pig. Jump when I say or I might not hire you.
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#88Isn't this illegal? Discrimination laws.
No, it isn't legal. He is just being a troll for Yahoo decreasing the value of his prized facebook shares.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
It can be done. Look at the US. Ever had to fill out, 'Not a member of the Nazi Party between 1933-1945? The US Citizenship test in no way makes the US look like a 'serious jerkwad.'
Does checking that off automatically disqualify you from being a citizen or does it simply spark an investigation into what your role was in the party?
One of my friends Dad immigrated here after WWII from Germany and he was HY (forced) and he got his citizenship. From his decription, it only triggers a check against of list of people the US would like to have a "deeper conversation" with.
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#90I won't hire any one who ever worked at Yammer :)