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Re:Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit ... by utopkara on Thursday March 15, 2012 @10:10PM (#3711615)
First of all this is non-merit discrimination; which should bar yammer from doing business with government, and contractors. Check out their fron-page, the top of their customer list is Pitney-Bowes.

Second, he is creating a hostile work environment for his own employees who may feel differently about the case, or who have come from companies that collapsed as he is expecting Yahoo would.

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Re:Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit ... by marshray on Friday March 16, 2012 @01:16AM (#3712103)
I think he's saying that it is an issue of merit, in the sense that he considers it a negative indication of the judgment of an applicant.

Hostile work environment? Meh. Sure maybe somebody could bring a suit, maybe they could even have a chance at winning if he was beating people on the head with it every day. But I doubt many startup execs would worry about it to the point they would let it censor their behavior.

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