AOL Cutting 2000 Additional Jobs

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.'"

Obligatory:

[oahazmatt]

Boss to Employees: "Goodbye".

There, now it's out of the way.

Happy now?

[Scottoest]

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

Re:Obligatory:

[eln]

You've got a pink slip!

For more information, go to AOL Keyword: Unemployment

You've Gone Pale!

[stabbycabby]

AOL Keyword: Inevitable

Re:AOL and TW Merged

[StikyPad]

He said "pull the wool of their eyes." It's like the strings of their heart, only softer and with a higher risk of retinal damage.

Re:Here's to hoping they eliminate the other 80%

[Waffle Iron]

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.

Re:People still use AOL?

[peragrin]

My boss does. $20 bucks a month we get charged just so she can use the "internet" as she likes too.

When she got a new computer running windows XP, I made sure to "install AOL". In reality I set AOL.com as her IE 7 home page, changed the shortcut icon and name, and locked down bits and pieces of the browser the best I could. Installing the abomination that is AIM completes the illusion. she has had a hard time adapting to the "new"AOL but accepts it as is.

We do still pay $20 bucks a month for AOL though. I can't seem to break that one out. At least the book keeper is helping me.

If only losing your job at AOL...

[themushroom]

...were as hard as quitting your account with AOL.

Employees would get another three months of employment rather than terminated immediately.

They're totally screwed...

[nick_davison]

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.