It doesn’t take much for a Frenchman to strike. And that’s what French Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) engineers did Wednesday, protesting – very publicly – Carol Bartz’s decision to close an R&D centre that only opened a year ago.
The centre at Grenoble in the Alps had belonged to price comparison site Kelkoo but, when Yahoo off-loaded the site at a loss of more than
No one will begrudge a hack in a hurry an old tired cliché, but while you may consider that this doesn’t amount to “much”, the closure of facility employing 78 people is reason enough to strike, in France or elsewhere.