Two years after he left, the ghost of TV executive Lloyd Braun still haunts Yahoo. Which is why a report of lost perks in Yahoo's L.A. office turned into an evisceration of the ex-exec.
The Los Angeles Timescarried a report about lost perks in Santa Monica, the home of the Yahoo Media Group:
"Screw You, Yahoo!" is a "9 to 5" anthem for the YouTube generation, a cri de cubicle for a creative class which discovered Internet companies are just as stultifying as the rest of corporate America.
It's also really terrible, in a way that veers on high camp, but doesn't quite cross the border.
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Yahoo had set plans for a holiday party in L.A. right after Wednesday's mass layoffs — and it invited the victims. But just in case any were armed, Jerry Yang's guards set up metal detectors.
No one seems to think the right employees were let go at the bloated Internet giant.