These clever posters went all up over the Yahoo! campus a few weeks ago. They are part of an internal campaign to get people excited about the upcoming search monetization panacea known as Panama. Not only do I have an issue with the company in general devoting what seems to be more time, energy, and dollars to marketing product launches to the 12,000 people in the world most likely to try them anyway (i.e. Yahoo! employees) than to the rest of the world, but this just seems like a bone-head move (as opposed to previously cited lapses in good taste).
I am assuming that the company knew when these posters went up, mere weeks before the announcement that Panama would be delayed, that it was behind schedule (if not, then we have much bigger issues). Considering that most people here have a non-trivial portion of their compensation in equity and that this announcement prompted a 20% drop in Yahoo!’s share price, doesn’t it seem a bit brain-dead to taunt us with these posters!?
Did you see the 2010: The Year We Get Panama posters?