Humor

Internally, we’ve talked about doing videos of things ranging from the instructional to the campy.  Check out what our partner Workday did with their American Idol spoof, below.  The editing is actually very good.

Dave Duffield is a master of culture-building, among many other things.  Good to see the PeopleSoft-in-its-glory energy resurfacing here.

It’s Friday and there’s no better time to look at real examples of management speak gone awry.  BBC News has a list of 50 office-speak phrases you love to hate, and some of the better ones score a seriously impressive nonsense/ridiculous rating.  See them after the jump.

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Argh.  I wrote “Web 2.0″ already when I promised myself I wouldn’t do that until at least my 100th post.  Man.  What a letdown.

Anyway.

So Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, has tendered his resignation letter to Yahoo, as has his wife and fellow co-founder Caterina Fake.  Check it out:

Put simply, Yahoo lost focus and Butterfield doesn’t feel he has a place anymore.  The metallurgical storytelling is just clever metaphor.  But that’s not the point.

A great many of our customers are involved in HR/HRIS, so resignations and their accompanying letters are nothing new to them.  But what do you most notice about Butterfield’s parting shot?

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