DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter Generator

By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews

Lending a little humor to the semi-frenzied executive departures at Yahoo! is this Yahoo! resignation letter generator. After all, since last week the following have announced their departures:

Jeff Weiner, Executive VP of the network group, and Usama Fayyad, Executive VP of research and computing infrastructure; Qi Lu, Executive VP in charge of search and monetization, Brad Garlinghouse, Senior VP of communication and communities, and Vish Makhijani, Senior VP of search.

To make matters easier for more Yahoo! executives, Mathew Honan from 123 Fake St (ha, ha) in SF registered the domain yahoorezinr.com, and placed a ready-made Yahoo! resignation letter generator there - and just on Friday, no less.

And yep, that’s the same Mathew Honan who’s a contributing editor at Wired. The resignation letter generator is also on a page linked from his own site.

In a Mad Libs-type format, the resignation letter allows you to create your own custom resignation letter to Jerry Yang, or to “whomever is running things today.”

A few tidbits from the generator:

It is with great
sadness glee self-interest

that I ask you to accept this letter as my official resignation from Yahoo!

As you know, for some time now I have been desiring
more time with my familya more challenging positionyou guys quit destroying all my net worth

and thus I feel the time has finally arrived for me to
move ontake a new directiontell you to go f*** yourself

I have come to realize that management does not seem to fully understand
social mediahow to make a profitsearchhow to run a taco truck, much less a $30 billion business

Yeah, well, it’s not 100% clean. Anyway, have fun with it, and if you’re working at Yahoo!, this will make your life easier if you decide you need a change of scenery.