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Laying off George

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Re: Laying off George

#11
There seems to be a clue or two missing in middle management.

Its like throwing out the projector because they figure that now that they have the image on the wall, who needs it?

I sense a hard lesson about to be learned. Good luck in your next endevour, George.

Re: Laying off George

#12

Here's the real link (question to poster: Why did you link to an unnecessary reference?) http://george08.blogspot.com/2008/12/not-quite-what-i-had-in... My comment: Congratulations to the affected. A website that does little besides arranging "img" elements is fundamentally lame. I was hit in the 2001 blowout, and it was probably the best thing that could have happened. Find something good.....

I would wager that a comment flippantly (and ignorantly) disparaging a very useful site which unleashed quite a bit of creativity everywhere, is much much lamer.

Re: Laying off George

#13

I'm sorry to hear how hard it's been for George. Flickr is a great product and has had huge returns for Yahoo. That said, my uninformed reaction is to consider this a good move. The last thing Yahoo needs is another project with no clear business model, regardless how cool. This is the kind of work that should be funded by massive donations like wikipedia. If it's going to be supported by a company, it shouldn't be o…

Yeah, I don't know much about this person, but flying a guy (edit: oops, sorry, girl! that's what I get for writing first thing in the morning) around the world to talk about "the commons project" sounds like lots of money that could be better spent elsewhere. That said, if she's bright and a good worker, why not at least give her the chance to do something else in the company?

Re: Laying off George

#15

There seems to be a clue or two missing in middle management. Its like throwing out the projector because they figure that now that they have the image on the wall, who needs it? I sense a hard lesson about to be learned. Good luck in your next endevour, George.

"like throwing out the projector because...they have the image on the wall, who needs it".

You just made my day. Thank you.

Re: Laying off George

#16
post #13

I'm sorry to hear how hard it's been for George. Flickr is a great product and has had huge returns for Yahoo. That said, my uninformed reaction is to consider this a good move. The last thing Yahoo needs is another project with no clear business model, regardless how cool. This is the kind of work that should be funded by massive donations like wikipedia. If it's going to be supported by a company, it shouldn't be o…

Yeah, I don't know much about this person, but flying a guy (edit: oops, sorry, girl! that's what I get for writing first thing in the morning) around the world to talk about "the commons project" sounds like lots of money that could be better spent elsewhere. That said, if she's bright and a good worker, why not at least give her the chance to do something else in the company?

George is a girl http://www.flickr.com/people/george/

Re: Laying off George

#18
post #12

Here's the real link (question to poster: Why did you link to an unnecessary reference?) http://george08.blogspot.com/2008/12/not-quite-what-i-had-in... My comment: Congratulations to the affected. A website that does little besides arranging "img" elements is fundamentally lame. I was hit in the 2001 blowout, and it was probably the best thing that could have happened. Find something good.....

I would wager that a comment flippantly (and ignorantly) disparaging a very useful site which unleashed quite a bit of creativity everywhere, is much much lamer.

Flickr's interesting because it's a Web 2.0 darling. There was an article I read that stated that Photobucket got 7x the traffic of Flickr but Flickr got 40x the press mentions of Photobucket. Facebook now owns the online photo-hosting market. The big weakness of Flickr is that its main interaction model is between photographers - Facebook's is between photographers and people in photos.

Flickr may be a cool technology but in a business sense it's an also-ran.

Re: Laying off George

#20
post #17

You can't be fired without some sort of severance pay or package, correct? Or am I just crazy.

No, not correct. If it's in your employment agreement then yes (rare). If the company is nice, or feels bad for you then yes. But otherwise they have no obligation to do so.

PS. This is US.

Other countries especially france have different rules.

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