Yes, let's not forget the acquisition of foxytunes! That could be the key to the Yahoo! turnaround.

Hard work and strong commitment are more important now than ever before!

However, I couldn't be bothered to capitalize and grammar-check this email.

If this actually happens and yahoo sells out to ms, i'll drop all the services i use at yahoo.com what's worse, any open source projects i have to believe would get closed down. i don't understand why they aren't fighting this more. just seems weak of them.

The tipster had to manually copy the protected memo. My company uses WRM to prevent copying of emails and I assume YHOO does too.

Is this thing real? Looks like it was put through a grammatical obscuring filter. Hire an editor!

With the new traffic payment system maybe some Valleywaggers would help for a small fee.

At least Jerry is trying to communicate and uplift his employees- which is more than you can say for AOL's management...

if by "leaked" you mean "filed with the SEC," then, once again, you've proven that VW is above sensationalizing its YHOO coverage.

Apparently Jerry has a distaste for capitalization (except for the letter I), apostrophes. He does, however, love serial commas, regular commas, and exclamation points (the lattermost being part of the Yahoo! new employee orientation).

I don't even work for Y! and I feel like he was talking to me.

Actually, the unique writing style is a sort of digital signature so that we know it came from Jerry.

Here is a copy of a email sent directly to jerry yang and his crew. THIS shows why yahoo is declining.

Hello Jerry,

Sorry to bother you, and I apologize for troubling you with this, but I felt my story needed to be heard by someone who holds Yahoo! as close to their heart as I imagine I do.

My name is Mark Hannah and I, up until yesterday, worked for the Tier 3 Broadband Connect Life Support Team in Hillsboro Oregon. This Team is managed by Ted Yuzon.

Yesterday, I quit. I started working for Yahoo! through Workforce Logic in Sept of 07. I was previously working for another company in Vancouver Washington, making about $5.00 more an hour than the $11.50 I was making working for Yahoo!/WFL. My resume was referred to Yahoo! and Ted Yuzon through a friend of mine, Jonathan Gray.

I was excited about coming to work for Yahoo! as my personal Yahoo! ID, Nevermore781, has been active since 1999. I even met my girlfriend through Yahoo! Chat over 7 years ago, so Yahoo! is very near and dear to my heart and I write this email now with the utmost contempt for what happened to me.

When I was first told about this job, my friend, Jon had told me about his experience. How he had been rolled to perm employment with Yahoo! in less than 90 days and they had a position open as the last person had moved on to another position within the company. I decided to give him my resume and have him drop my name to the manager in the hopes I could get perm employment with Yahoo!. They were interested in me and my skills based on my resume and I was brought in for an interview. I explained to both Ted and Nick my team lead when I was interviewed about my situation. The pay cut I was taking. I explained to them I was interested in the position based on what I had heard from Jon about being rolled over before 90 days and was told that I would more than likely be rolled over before 90 days if not at 90 days.

Now as I stated previously, I left a job paying me 5 dollars more an hour. I wasn't happy at the job making more money, it was about an hour drive each way to and from work, and there wasn't much room for growth from my position and Yahoo! Hillsboro being only about 10 minutes away, well I did the math and I figured as soon as I was rolled over to perm, the dollar difference wouldn't be much anymore due to the time and gas savings, plus, its Yahoo!. As I said previously, Yahoo! was already near and dear to my heart, so the opportunity to work there was just amazing to me.

So I put in my 2 weeks at my previous employer and started working for Yahoo! on Sept 3rd after passing the background check. Everything was great. I loved the position and I took to it quickly. If you check the performance for the team since I started, you will see exactly how quickly. I was told by my manager that I was "raising the bar" and was complimented on my end of day reports so frequently that other team members were getting offended by the way this performance was singled out by Ted Yuzon.

My end of month totals for YCAMS tickets processed for January alone eclipsed the rest of the team by over double. If memory serves me, I was over 200 tickets ahead of the next closest agent with the same level of access to tools and systems. I don't quite remember exactly the data from December and previous months, but I'm sure my performance and numbers for previous months put me in either 1st or 2nd position for each month. I had good QA's and good CareSATs on my tickets too. Please Check! I think you'll find the numbers interesting.

I'm stating the numbers for fact, not to brag about them. The members of this team are amazing. The team lead is probably the best direct supervisor I have ever had, so I don't mean to make to make the numbers sound as if they did anything wrong. Basically, the numbers only contribute to my frustration with this situation.

September goes by, and by the end of November, I start feeling the $5.00 difference in my bank account pretty hard. I told this to Ted, and he explained to me about the hiring freeze and how they'd like to roll me over but the hiring freeze and they had no firm date as to when it would be lifted. Since there was no way to get hired at the time, I asked if there would be any way to increase my pay through Workforce Logic. Ted asked the powers that be and was told that the paperwork for getting a pay increase through WFL would be just as long of a process as waiting for the freeze to end would be.

December comes and I am literally praying that the freeze ends so I can be rolled perm. I wrote an email detailing my situation to Ted and I believe he did forward my concerns on to his boss. I had to move back in with my parents to be able to afford my bills on the $11.50 an hour I was getting paid, so you can probably imagine the strain put on me through that alone.

January comes, I keep asking and dropping comments about when is the freeze going to be over and how bad I need to be rolled over. Pleading. I asked my manager time and time again for information and "no news" was the answer I was given most of the time. I was kept in the dark about what was going on.

So Yesterday, I contacted Workforce Logic to try and see if they had any information as to when the freeze would end, hoping they may know something or have more information than "no news", but unfortunately, they didn't. That was my limit and I quit. It's not what I wanted. I don't like it. I am not happy about it at all.

I wanted Yahoo! to be the place where I made a career and not just another job. I owed Yahoo! a lot I felt. I wanted to make a difference within the company, and now, I am so distressed over this, and I feel like deleting my account and never having anything to do with Yahoo! again.

Again I apologize for having to bother you with this, I just felt like you deserved to know what happened to an ex-Yahoo!

Thank for your time,
Mark Hannah II

I am an ex Yahoo!. I just quit on 2/4. Yahoo! is declining because they are letting good people leave. I had over double the work output of my co-workers and better attendance than them as well, yet Yahoo! decided to not roll me over to perm from contract work. If you want a copy of the email I sent to Jerry Yang, Sue Decker, Laura Narducci and co, i am more than happy to give it out.

'a next generation e-mail and collaboration suite' - thank God, I don't think people get how to do email yet.

did he really type this with the typos? (i.e. "weve")

Leaked? This was an SEC filing:

[www.sec.gov]

Where exactly does he say anything even remotely like "anyone but Microsoft"?

"as weve said, no decisions have been made about microsofts proposal. our board is thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives in what is a complex and evolving landscape. and weve hired top advisors to assist through the process."

They are looking at alternatives, but haven't made any decisions about the MS proposal.

Jerry motivates like George W. Bush.