Always a Yahoo!

This is -in part- what I ended up sending in the afternoon. Somewhat a sad day for me, although I am very excited about what I'll be doing next week [actually tomorrow]:

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Colleagues, friends;

So, this is my last day at Yahoo.

HR told me yesterday, while taking my employee card away, that at midnight today my benefits –except health- will be cancelled. That didn’t hit me hard; but when I walked in to MC1 lobby this morning, I had to get an ID printout to be able to get in; that was a bit sad.

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I saw the following item on Entertainment Weekly’s 'big events of 2007' list. It kind of hit home, because I (a) am moving from one Web company to another, (b) know about servers going down –actually a single server taking the whole colo down-, (c) watched kitten videos on YouTube {they’re fun to watch}, (d) think that we work a bit harder than usual (e) got a brain reset while in Turkey, and (f) figured that it’s going to be worse when I saw one of the developers coming in to work at 7.30pm, while picking my new benefit documents at Yoriwa.

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Here is the article:
"On May 16, 2007, a plumber named Sal Perkins will forget to tighten a valve while servicing the restrooms at YouTube’s San Bruno, Calif., headquarters. The resulting flood causes a server to crash, starting a chain reaction that shuts down the entire site shortly after lunch. Without the ability to forward videos of kittens falling asleep, teenagers dancing in their bedrooms, and “D—k in a Box” to their friends, America’s workers get up from their chairs, wander out of their offices, and spend the remainder of the week staring at largest body of water then can find. (Nebraska residents find swimming pools.) Once their brains have been reset, they return to work and discover it doesn’t actually take as long to do their jobs as they originally thought. Everyone soon rallies together and forces employers to authorize a mandatory four weeks of vacation time, like Europeans get. By the fall, the entertainment business is once again a thriving, vibrant, and creative cultural force –both on- and offline. Also, there is world piece. And free cookies for everyone."

Speaking of cookies, can’t actually promise cookies, but Yoriwa has tea and chocolate at its current location on Saratoga Avenue.
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