i'm never really sure how to react when someone says "You got a new job? Congratulations!" i mean, i appreciate the thought (i assume it's along the lines of "You're pursuing your preferred career option! i'm happy for you") but being highly paranoid and overwhelmingly pessimistic, i can't help think that they're harboring other thoughts:
- "Wow, you managed to convince someone else you're actually worth hiring? Good Job!"
- "Oh Cool! You're Leaving!"
- "Yay! i get to ransack whatever you leave in your cube and put it up on ebay! Ca-CHING!"
There are others that use "Congrats!" as a mild expletive regarding their sudden burst in work load you're not going to be doing anymore, or somewhat pleading entre to hide in one of the boxes you're loading into the back of the car as well, but those are to be expected.
Thing is, when i find out someone is leaving, i'm a lot like everyone i'm usually fairly bummed about it. Sometimes for the workload/paranoid reasons, but mostly because it means i won't be able to bounce ideas off of that person as freely as i once was able to. i certainly wish them the best of luck, but i dunno, it just seems so.. well… prescriptive.
That's why i'm going to wish folks "Sheboygan!"
Granted wishing someone the tidings of a major lakeside city in Wisconsin is a tad unorthodox, and it may just be that someone recently traumatized by the residents of the 2005 13th ranked safest metro (possibly involving a rogue late trout, two under age co-eds, and a Jackie Mason impersonator) may not take it all that well, but it's just random enough that folks might appreciate not having to overly think it. They'll just presume (and rightly so) that i'm out of my mind and walk on to other adoring accolades and hardy Fare-Thee-Wells.
Well, unless they're equally insane and reply with something like "And a pleasant Muncie to you!".
You're (we're) a senior Yahoo! exec. I never knew that - and they didn't mention Jeremy once!
When Valette pointed out the article to me, my first reaction was that they only cited the three resignations to infer they were somehow related to Yahoo refusing Microsoft's offer, "jumping ship" etc. I really hope that's not the case and that the Mercury News is just trying to make more out of this than there actually is.
Well, in both my case and Jeremy's I can whole-heartedly say that our decision had NOTHING to do with Microsoft or Icahn. I'm also willing to believe it had precious little to do with Jeff Wiener leaving, but of course, he'd be the best person to respond about that.
A lot of folks are jumping to conclusions they really need to think a lot harder about. I'll add in that a lot of folks are jumping ship from Google too, but nobody's saying they're struggling.
I'm willing to believe that including me in the mix pretty much establishes the amount of effort put into the creation of this article. Well, that and the fairly heavy "borrowing" of the same sort of guesswork from Tech Crunch and Ars Technica articles.
sheboygan transcends state boundaries by being simultaneously in wisconsin and michigan.
What U.S. city do you reply for "Congratulations on being unwillingly-sourced in a poorly-researched, uncorroborated online news story!" ?
I would go with "Wauwatosa" or just "Tosa", myself.
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