Stock price be damned! Today there was a mass evacuation of my building at Yahoo! in Santa Clara. Apparently someone brought in their personal DELL laptop and had yet to heed their battery recall instructions. Here are the charred remains. The fire was on the 8th floor, and the acrid stench of burned plastic could be smelled eight floors down!
I have yet to find out who the person was; I would like to get a recount of how the events that led up to this transpired. If I get an update, I will let you know.
Update: The machine belongs to a Yahoo! Research Intern. It was his first week on the job, from what I’ve uncovered. He was simply sitting there at his desk, writing code when his machine started smoking, and then flaming. Welcome to Yahoo, grasshopper.
Find out if his hard drive survived. A friend’s daughter’s house had a fire that melted the outer case of her Compaq and the Seagate HD still worked.
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:08 am