PassiveAggressiveNotes.com » Yahoo http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Yahoo! in the toilet? Read the writing on the wall. http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2008/04/27/is-yahoo-in-the-toilet-just-read-the-writing-on-the-wall/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2008/04/27/is-yahoo-in-the-toilet-just-read-the-writing-on-the-wall/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:36:59 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=644 What’s employee morale like inside Yahoo’s Sunnyvale headquarters, amid all the chatter about coming layoffs, the possible Microsoft takeover, and everything else? well, according to one anonymous Yahoo! employee, in the toilet would be one place to look.

Says our Yahoo! tipster: “First they took away our right to stand on the toilets. Then they took away our right to surf on the john. But now — they’ve gone too far.”

is yahoo! in the toilet? just read the writing on the wall.

related: Yahoo! — Servicing over a half-billion people…each and every day

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hostile takeover

related: just in case you didn’t catch the sarcasm

]]> http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2008/02/05/hostile-takeover/feed/ 75 At least it wasn’t “Grand Valse” http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/09/16/at-least-it-wasnt-grand-valse/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/09/16/at-least-it-wasnt-grand-valse/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:34:18 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/09/16/at-least-it-wasnt-grand-valse/ According to a 2006 Harris poll, office-workers say annoying ringtones are one of their biggest pet peeves — second only to office loud talkers. So I’m actually surprised we haven’t seen more notes like this one, which Flickr’s Heather Champ found taped to her (chirping) cell phone once upon a time.

ringtone.jpg

What’s your pick for the most obnoxious ringtone award?

]]> http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/09/16/at-least-it-wasnt-grand-valse/feed/ 191 “Servicing over a half-billion people…each and every day.” http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/06/15/servicing-over-a-half-billion-peopleeach-and-every-day/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/06/15/servicing-over-a-half-billion-peopleeach-and-every-day/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:45:52 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/06/15/servicing-over-a-half-billion-peopleeach-and-every-day/ From the Bay-area offices of Yahoo! HotJobs…

Those programmers…so literal-minded, sometimes.

can u not uz hand lotion in toilet plz? work-wanks r creepy, thnx

(thiz onez fer u, slackferno.)

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