Yahoo sent a lot of people packing as layoffs began in earnest, with a few of the departing using their blogs to comment on the situation.

Yahoo’s plans to cut 1,000 jobs in mid-February appear to have started at the company today.

The hammer has fallen. Yahoo will finally make the job cuts Wall Street has craved for a long time, before a backdrop of lower profits caused by higher expenses.

The ’sphere is buzzing with “anonymous” tips that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will soon be faced with the tough decision of firing up to 2.500 employees.

The U.S. search market appears to be pretty much wrapped up.  Neither Yahoo nor Google is especially strong in mobile matters, though, and the fight becomes even more of a tossup in India, where mobile services are expected to assume “a high growth trajectory.”

This coming Tuesday and Wednesday will not be remotely jolly for some AOL employees; according to various reports, another round of layoffs is in the making.

Orange is a huge communications corporation.  Research In Motion is a top wireless device company.  And now Kristof Fahy has moved on from those places of business to Yahoo Europe, where he’ll serve as vice president of marketing.

We’ve run several, several stories in recent weeks about Yahoo execs leaving the company, and the departures have been, as far as we can tell, completely voluntary.  But according to one analyst, a solution to most of the company’s problems would be for roughly 1,200 other employees to involuntarily follow suit.

You may not have much use for AOL as a corporation, but its employees, as people, probably deserve some applause – they’re handling a huge round of layoffs quite well.

Some U.S. workers may experience anxiety about opening email from their boss. Ten percent of U.S. employees say their company has used email to fire or lay off employees. Another 17 percent indicated their boss used emails to avoid other difficult conversations.

Mass firings can make people nervous – it’s only natural to wonder who’s next.  The remaining employees at Eons are apparently feeling peaceful, however, following a reorganization that saw 24 of their colleagues go.

The Charlotte-based financial company will buy MBNA for $35 billion, and will cut 6,000 jobs as it reorganizes.

Thanks but no thanks, say students to the prospect of entering the computer field in college.

Silicon Valley Watcher: Early next week IBM will introduce the largest ever corporate blogging initiative in a bid to encourage any of its 130,000 staff to become online evangelists for the company.

The number of layoffs planned by U.S. firms in March dropped 20% after rising in February.

A few days ago I went on a rant about Oracle having layoffs and that some of my friends would probably be losing their jobs.