Category Archives: Yahoo!

I have your 15 cents

You left it in the vending machine, and it’s mine now. I’m still trying to figure out how you got 15 cents of change buying a 45 cent drink, though. It boggles the mind. Since you can’t count, you probably won’t miss it.

A Quandary

When one of the founders of the company is squatting in your conference room at 5 past, what do you do?

  1. Kick them out
  2. Find another conference room
  3. Cry like a baby

Hmm, a quandary.

Heading to Bangalore

Tomorrow I’m flying to Bangalore, India via Seoul, South Korea and Mumbai, India:

I’ll be visiting Yahoo! India and giving them some training on MySQL. I’m hoping for nice weather and really nice food! I’ll be sure to take plenty of pictures for the gallery.

Here’s my itinerary:

From San Francisco to Bangalore:

Depart San Francisco  Mar 30 @ 13:20        Korean Air 24
Arrive Seoul          Mar 31 @ 19:00        (12h40m)

Depart Seoul          Mar 31 @ 20:50        Korean Air 655
Arrive Mumbai         Apr  1 @ 02:10        (8h50m)

Depart Mumbai         Apr  1 @ 06:15        Indian Airlines 105
Arrive Bangalore      Apr  1 @ 07:45        (1h30m)

From Bangalore to San Francisco:

Depart Bangalore      Apr 11 @ 22:30        Jet Airways 2412
Arrive Mumbai         Apr 12 @ 00:45        (2h15m)

Depart Mumbai         Apr 12 @ 04:00        Korean Air 656
Arrive Seoul          Apr 12 @ 14:45        (7h15m)

Depart Seoul          Apr 12 @ 18:15        Korean Air 23
Arrive San Francisco  Apr 12 @ 12:35        (10h20m)

On Employee Blogging

Jeremy Zawodny recently wrote a pretty good summary about employee blogging. A few people have asked me why I haven’t blogged more about working at Yahoo!, and what it is that I do there. Basically, I always follow these basic criteria when I blog about work:

  • Is it about anything sensitive in any way?
  • Is it disrespectful to either your employer or any coworkers?
  • Would you flinch in the slightest if your boss, his boss, all the way up to the CEO and the board of directors read it?

Does that leave you with anything? Is what you have left interesting? No, I mean interesting to other people. Yes, that’s what I thought. You’re not left with much.

Hey, it sucks that Mark Jen got fired from Google, but it looks like he pretty consistently violated my three rules above, and apparently posted something that in itself pushed it over the top, since he was forced to remove it. There’s a huge difference between writing an occasional blog about your employer (as Jeremy Zawodny often does, and is fine!) and blogging about your employer as though the whole exercise of working there was a documentary writing project.

Let’s move on, guys!