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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. Happy now? by Scottoest · · Score: 5, Funny

    I blame this on all of you Slashdotters. For years you just HAD to casually point out how crummy their service is, and how morally repugnant their business practices are, and now look at what has happened!

    Have you no morals? Will you not rest, until every poor person working for an underwhelming ISP has lost their job?

    For shame, Slashdot!

    - Scott

  2. Re:Obligatory: by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've got a pink slip!

    For more information, go to AOL Keyword: Unemployment

  3. You've Gone Pale! by stabbycabby · · Score: 5, Funny

    AOL Keyword: Inevitable

  4. Re:Here's to hoping they eliminate the other 80% by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    AOHell should never have existed.

    That's not true at all. At one time, they provided a crucial service to the PC users in this great nation: a boundless supply of free floppy disks, conveniently delivered almost daily right to our homes and offices. It was only with the demise of the floppy drive that AOL's reason for existence went away.

  5. They're totally screwed... by nick_davison · · Score: 5, Funny

    AOL's trained its employees too well.

    Boss: You're fired!

    Employee: Sorry, AOL employees only accept termination notices between the hours of 1:13am and 1:16am, Ugandan time. Please call back at this deliberately inconvenient time. Until then, we will continue to bill you for our services.

    Boss [several hours later]: OK, now you're fired!

    Employee: Sorry, please hold.

    Boss [several hours later]: Look, you're freaking fired!

    Employee: OK, I'm going to sign you up for one more month of free employment.

    Boss: I don't want a month's free employment, you're freaking fired, you stupid cretins!

    Employee: I'm sorry, we accidentally disconnected that call. Please begin the process again.

    Management may want to fire them. If the employees have learned anything from their time working there, it'll be next to impossible to make them actually leave. Karma's a bitch.