Lindsay Garvey, a 28-year-old woman living in Somerville, Massachusetts, claims she lost her job as a server at a restaurant because her iPhone alarm failed to activate. As a result, she was late to work and handed a pink slip, the Boston Globe reports.

That sounds like one of the oldest excuses in the book -- right there next to having a flat tire -- but this happened on New Year's Day. Garvey isn't the only way who complained about her iPhone alarm not ringing on New Year's Day, and Apple confirmed the glitch affecting non-recurring alarms set for January 1 or 2, Engadget says.

"Upon my termination, I was told that I was wonderful, but that my tardiness was unfair to the other employees," Garvey wrote in a letter to Steve Jobs. "So, Mr. Jobs, I'd like to let you know that you have officially, directly contributed to unemployment in 2011."

Garvey's accusation might not be entirely fair, to Apple or to Steve Jobs.

"Unfortunately, [Garvey's] tardiness on New Year's Day was not an isolated incident and it is with great regret that she was let go," wrote David Flanagan, co-owner Foundry on Elm where Garvey worked. "We value all of the team members of our staff and hold them to a very high standard of excellent hospitality."

There have been rumors that Yahoo's latest round of layoffs nixed the entire Del.icio.us team, and now it appears the social bookmarking site is not long for this world, TechCrunch reports.

Former Yahoo employee Andy Baio posted an internal Yahoo team meeting slide showing various business ventures listed under three categories: Sunset, Merge, and Make Feature. Del.icio.us falls under the Sunset heading, as does Altavista, MyBlogLog, Yahoo Bookmarks, and a handful of others.

"Part of our organization streamlining involves cutting our investment in underperforming or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond," Yahoo said in a statement. "We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months such as Yahoo Buzz, our Traffic APIs, and others. We will communicate specific plans when appropriate."

Yahoo recently handed out pink slips to 4 percent of its staff (around 600 employees) in what the company described as "a tough call, but a necessary one."

Clark Griswold went off the deep end when he received a "Jelly of the Month" membership in place of a holiday bonus check, but at least he wasn't laid off. The same can't be said for some 650 to 700 Yahoo employees expected to lose their jobs today, AllThingsD.com reports.

Yahoo's product division will bear the brunt of this round of layoffs, and mostly here in the U.S. If all this weren't crummy enough, those laid off will be asked to leave immediately.

If there's a bright side to all this, it's that the number of pink slips is about half of what was initially reported. Back in November, TechCrunch said Yahoo was planning on severing about 20 percent of its 6,500 workforce, which Yahoo said was "misleading and inaccurate."

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a legal complaint on behalf of Dawnmarie Souza, who was fired from her job as an emergency medical technician after she posted critical remarks about her supervisor on her Facebook page, followed by exchanging disparaging messages with other employees, Star News Online reports.

"It's the same as talking at the water cooler," said Lafe Solomon, the board's acting general counsel. "The point is that employees have protection under the law to talk to each other about conditions at work."

As far as the NLRB is concerned, the Connecticut ambulance company Souza worked for has an unlawful policy that prohibits depicting the company "in any way" over the Internet without first getting permission. What's most interesting about this case is that it could set a precedent for more to follow.

"This is the first complaint we've issued over comments on Facebook, but I have no doubt that we'll be seeing more," Solomon said. "We have to develop policies as we go in this fast-changing environment."

To be fair, John Barr, an attorney representing the ambulance company, said Souza was fired following two separate complaints about her "rude and discourteous service" within a 10-day period, and would have been canned whether or not she posted on Facebook.

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