Yahoo! VP Calls For a Shakeup

prostoalex writes, "Yahoo!'s Senior VP Brad Garlinghouse sent out a company-wide memo calling for layoffs of 15-20% of Yahoo! staff and reversal of priorities to concentrate on major issues facing the company. (The Wall Street Journal posted a copy of the memo.) MarketWatch quotes Garlinghouse: 'I've heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular. I hate peanut butter. We all should.'"

Do not support

[gQuigs]

Do not support Yahoo, in their war against peanut butter. This is exactly what Google is trying to prevent with their "Do No Evil" Clause.

I've never seen a memo that confusing..

[Channard]

... that didn't have any buzzwords in it. Let's hope just that it doesn't get Yahoo into a jam - otherwise that VP could be toast.

May I be the first

[Anonymous Coward]

...to call this guy a corporate douchebag.

The thing that really convinces me is the peanut butter metaphor. It's unforgiveable. What has this guy got against peanut butter? It's delicious. I think these guys come up with these ideas as they grunt on the toilet. It makes the blood pressure fall in your cerebral arteries and so you should be suspicious of any epiphany you have there especially if you are in management.

He also bleeds purple and yellow and he brags of having shaved a Y in the back of his head. I'd say that means case closed.

Re:Google could be accused of the same thing

[alexhs]

(luckily they've stayed away from horoscopes for now)

With all personal data you're giving them when using their products, they could probably come up with a better horoscope than any astrologer... and even without knowing your astrological sign...

Pro-Peanut

[umbrellasd]

I like peanut butter.

Re:May I be the first

[dattaway]

What has this guy got against peanut butter?

WARNING: THIS MEMO MAY CONTAIN NUTS.

I see what's going on here.

[Anonymous Coward]

Normal people drunk dial, VP's drunk memo.

When I saw the title of this memo....

[8127972]

..... I thought it was another mod for Grand Theft Auto.

Re:peanut butter

[ByTor-2112]

Only natural peanut butter. Don't eat that processed partially-hydrogenated sugar-enriched peanut-flavored garbage also known as Jif, Skippy, Peter Pan or one of the many other faces of this great Satan.

Re:I've never seen a memo that confusing..

[drsquare]

Don't you mean, thinking outside the jar?

Re:what a poorly managed metaphor; dude is a clown

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think you understand his metaphor. Peanut butter is a verb in this case. Of course, you're free to hate an MBA who thinks that "peanut butter" should be a verb ;)