the internets is dying? aol to lay off 20% of its workforce

<a href="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/A/AOL_LAYOFFS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-10-15-18-18-44">Here's the link</a>

sucks for those folks, i hope they find jobs, and it sucks for us looking for jobs to have more folks out there

i guess newspapers aren't the only media industry struggling

BLOGS!

 

No, the internets are owned, on occasion, by the same greedy bastards who run the corporate class elsewhere.

 

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

 

We warned TBL that if he kept up his shaky practices....

 

Isn't AOL like 'the newspapers' of the interweb, in terms of relevance?

 

Certainly in terms of Human Resources, it seems to be.

 

the difference? aol is "re-investing in high-growth areas."

 

Dial-up ain't what it used to be.

 

You've got ... to clean out your desk. Oh, and other layoffs/downsizings/firings in Flint and Riverside today.

 

Just means their higher ups know how to write a better release.

 

A lot of these AOL employees made a ton of money on AOL stock when the company first started.


I'd have to search for the link, but a lot of those people were just regular employees too. So yeah, they may be out of a job, but a lot of them won't be hurting.

 

The guy who was sitting down the row from me in a pressbox a week ago and using AOL dial-up will be heartbroken.

I think his laptop ran on coal.