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AOL Cutting 2000 Additional Jobs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the never-saw-the-dialup-collapse-coming dept.

butterwise writes "AOL plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or 20 percent of its worldwide workforce, as the Internet division focuses on advertising sales to make up for subscriber losses. 'The latest cuts will pare AOL's staff to 8,000, down from about 18,000 employees in 2001, when the company bought New-York based Time Warner for $124 billion. The combination led to $100 billion in losses and a more than 60 percent drop in Time Warner's stock as customers dropped dial-up Web access.'"

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  1. donkey dong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    swamped cable ruled bind

  2. Not done yet by ZwJGR · · Score: 0, Troll

    2000 gone, another 8000 to go...

    Keep up the good work!

    --
    There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face - Ben Williams
  3. Luddites - No sympathy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    With Internet access nearly ubiquitous, AOL represents a Luddite Culture I find offensive. There is a segment of Humanity holding us back and in the past. Let me phrase this another way. Lets say you had a debilitating illness. Your only chance for survival was to swap out your brain and put it in a Synthetic body created for the purpose of removing the threat whatever cancer or Terminal Illness was eating you alive. Instead, however, you have this large faction of Luddites preventing you from developing your life saving technology.

    Thats what AOL Users are, people who fear change and advancement. Thats not good. For the Human species to survive, there has to be adaptation. Development. Innovation. AOL Users represent the reverse of that.

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