Comments on: Another 2,000 Heads Roll at AOL http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/ Startup and Technology News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:02:09 -0800 hourly 1 By: Jesika Robert http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-2552880 Jesika Robert Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:03:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-2552880 Thanks for info! How is it possible to be visble on AOL of a site targeting <a href="http://www.gaypedia.com/en/home/tag/Gay" rel="nofollow">gay</a> peoples. Thanks for info! How is it possible to be visble on AOL of a site targeting gay peoples.

]]> By: AOL Makes Big Budget Cuts Across Blogs http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-2419097 AOL Makes Big Budget Cuts Across Blogs Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:13:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-2419097 [...] even minor ones. One person complains that they’re cutting things like free bagels. Are more big layoffs coming across AOL as it gears up for a sale to Yahoo or another suitor? We’re looking into [...] [...] even minor ones. One person complains that they’re cutting things like free bagels. Are more big layoffs coming across AOL as it gears up for a sale to Yahoo or another suitor? We’re looking into [...]

]]> By: Jon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1677823 Jon Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:14:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1677823 Let me get this straight... NOW AOL wants to become the next Google of online advertising... maybe if we where 1995 it would have a shot but now, with dwindling demand for dial-up as things progress and coming so late to the game... I figure an IPO is the last thing they should be focusing upon (he doesn't say it directly but between the lines, that's the only way out). Jon Let me get this straight… NOW AOL wants to become the next Google of online advertising… maybe if we where 1995 it would have a shot but now, with dwindling demand for dial-up as things progress and coming so late to the game… I figure an IPO is the last thing they should be focusing upon (he doesn’t say it directly but between the lines, that’s the only way out).

Jon

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1677341 David Mackey Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:07:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1677341 Ouch. I feel bad for those losing their positions. Ouch. I feel bad for those losing their positions.

]]> By: nemrut http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1677308 nemrut Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:35:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1677308 ...this should be a wake-up call to all the silicon valley drones pulling in 12-14hr days. your company feeds you free food as long as it's in their best interest to do so. Otherwise, you're expendable once the business is no longer profitable.. …this should be a wake-up call to all the silicon valley drones pulling in 12-14hr days. your company feeds you free food as long as it’s in their best interest to do so. Otherwise, you’re expendable once the business is no longer profitable..

]]> By: Gary Mckenzie http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1677086 Gary Mckenzie Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:33:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1677086 ok, so this is the kind of traffic techcrunch is charging customers 10k a month for.. Ridiculous !!!! ok, so this is the kind of traffic techcrunch is charging customers 10k a month for.. Ridiculous !!!!

]]> By: Biff http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676893 Biff Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:46:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676893 Chris, Man you are one incredible know-it-all fuckwit aren't you. At least on a blog where it's not easy for someone to bust your melon in an unanticipated reflexive motion, you are a very big man aren't you. Now, far be it from me to defend the likes of AOL senior management but I do now know and have known some really great programmers from AOL, particularly their mobile group in Seattle. Your descriptions of AOL employees, in my very real experience, are inaccurate and slanderous. Perhaps you should tone down your rhetoric and tone up your humility. You mind find you don't have to spend as many nights alone posting to obscure groups because you can communicate with real people face to face. Biff Chris,

Man you are one incredible know-it-all fuckwit aren’t you. At least on a blog where it’s not easy for someone to bust your melon in an unanticipated reflexive motion, you are a very big man aren’t you.

Now, far be it from me to defend the likes of AOL senior management but I do now know and have known some really great programmers from AOL, particularly their mobile group in Seattle. Your descriptions of AOL employees, in my very real experience, are inaccurate and slanderous.

Perhaps you should tone down your rhetoric and tone up your humility. You mind find you don’t have to spend as many nights alone posting to obscure groups because you can communicate with real people face to face.

Biff

]]> By: Bob http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676853 Bob Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:57:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676853 AO Who? AO Who?

]]> By: Steve Ballmer http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676684 Steve Ballmer Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:24:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676684 All Out of Luck! lol http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com All Out of Luck!
lol

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

]]> By: Chris http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676679 Chris Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:20:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676679 That should read: "Though I am doubtful about the durability of this product, I do know there is a market for it." That should read: “Though I am doubtful about the durability of this product, I do know there is a market for it.”

]]> By: Chris http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676677 Chris Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:17:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676677 "sojo - nice website. geocities?" Lots of people pay for vehicle lettering. Though I am doubtful about the durability of this product, but I do know there is a market for it. There are shops around here that survive on vehicle graphics and commercial signs alone. Lots of them. “sojo – nice website. geocities?”

Lots of people pay for vehicle lettering. Though I am doubtful about the durability of this product, but I do know there is a market for it. There are shops around here that survive on vehicle graphics and commercial signs alone. Lots of them.

]]> By: jr http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676668 jr Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:11:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676668 sojo - nice website. geocities? sojo – nice website. geocities?

]]> By: sojo http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676605 sojo Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:06:23 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676605 anyone care about AOL at all? umm, no anyone care about AOL at all?

umm, no

]]> By: Chris http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676602 Chris Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:03:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676602 The superbowl report was the first result on Google, but the reports I read in the day were about snorting coke inside the actual building. The manager I personally know there is a complete wacko. (no joke, he's for real) The superbowl report was the first result on Google, but the reports I read in the day were about snorting coke inside the actual building. The manager I personally know there is a complete wacko. (no joke, he’s for real)

]]> By: Chris http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676599 Chris Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:00:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676599 "employees are a burden if they are not generating cash for your business. directors are a burden if they can not archive the above. capitalists are a burden if they have no vision" AOL's employees did this: youtube.com/watch?v=xmpDSBAh6RY and this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massive-amounts-of-user-search-data/ They hire the most screwed up people you could ever hire as programmers and tech support, in my opinion. People that are truly out of their mind. Even if they threaten a few people for a few dollars their insanity has a net effect of driving the company straight into the ground. They LOVE to play rough with customers, and have shown very little concern for their data. Then the digg clone with netscape and all the other stuff they did. Reports that the execs at AOL would take helicopter rides for stuff like personal lunchens. And there were reports that they did cocaine openly in the building. media.guardian.co.uk/city/story/0,,979524,00.html "Klein quotes one AOL executive describing a group of colleagues openly snorting cocaine from the bonnet of a car before the 2001 Super Bowl." If anybody walked through my door and said they had experience at AOL, I would turn them right around and walk them out of the building. “employees are a burden if they are not generating cash for your business. directors are a burden if they can not archive the above.
capitalists are a burden if they have no vision”

AOL’s employees did this:
youtube.com/watch?v=xmpDSBAh6RY
and this:
http://www.tech...er-search-data/

They hire the most screwed up people you could ever hire as programmers and tech support, in my opinion. People that are truly out of their mind.
Even if they threaten a few people for a few dollars their insanity has a net effect of driving the company straight into the ground.
They LOVE to play rough with customers, and have shown very little concern for their data.

Then the digg clone with netscape and all the other stuff they did. Reports that the execs at AOL would take helicopter rides for stuff like personal lunchens. And there were reports that they did cocaine openly in the building.

media.guardian.co.uk/city/story/0,,979524,00.html

“Klein quotes one AOL executive describing a group of colleagues openly snorting cocaine from the bonnet of a car before the 2001 Super Bowl.”

If anybody walked through my door and said they had experience at AOL, I would turn them right around and walk them out of the building.

]]> By: ElyFall http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676598 ElyFall Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:59:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676598 Jason. I did not mean this in a sarcastic way. What i was trying to say is that most likely several of those guys will eventually go on to start their own company, which in return can be a great step. I was in the same situation not too long ago. It was coming so I left before it happened. I can tell you that although I make less money, my future as well as my present are much brighter. Sorry if i offended you or anyone Jason. I did not mean this in a sarcastic way. What i was trying to say is that most likely several of those guys will eventually go on to start their own company, which in return can be a great step.
I was in the same situation not too long ago. It was coming so I left before it happened. I can tell you that although I make less money, my future as well as my present are much brighter.
Sorry if i offended you or anyone

]]> By: Richard Corsale http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676593 Richard Corsale Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:53:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676593 then there were 8,000 .. what do they do exactly? I suppose that includes tech support , accounting , management , custodial, legal etc etc.. But I wonder what percentage of resource allocation gets to to R&D. then there were 8,000 .. what do they do exactly? I suppose that includes tech support , accounting , management , custodial, legal etc etc.. But I wonder what percentage of resource allocation gets to to R&D.

]]> By: ben http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676589 ben Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:47:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676589 employees are a burden if they are not generating cash for your business. directors are a burden if they can not archive the above. capitalists are a burden if they have no vision ah all's lost and the game goes on. ;-) employees are a burden if they are not generating cash for your business. directors are a burden if they can not archive the above.
capitalists are a burden if they have no vision

ah all’s lost and the game goes on. ;-)

]]> By: Chris http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676575 Chris Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:35:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676575 Instead of hiring just anybody and firing people, you should hire GOOD people and invest in them. That's what I did. I invested in our employees again today. http://www.beercosoftware.com/blog/2007/10/15/employee-lounge-now-cool-mission-accomplished/ They should fine tune their interview process. I know at least one AOL employee who is a psychopath and not very qualified. He threatened to kill me at least twice a year or so ago. Then there was the Vincent Ferrari incident. youtube.com/watch?v=xmpDSBAh6RY AOL is a bloated corporation that collapsed under it's own weight. I will make sure that will not happen with us even after our search engine is released. It's all about people, and making sure that you don't get people that are lazy or that suck. Instead of hiring just anybody and firing people, you should hire GOOD people and invest in them. That’s what I did. I invested in our employees again today.
http://www.beer...n-accomplished/

They should fine tune their interview process. I know at least one AOL employee who is a psychopath and not very qualified. He threatened to kill me at least twice a year or so ago. Then there was the Vincent Ferrari incident.
youtube.com/watch?v=xmpDSBAh6RY

AOL is a bloated corporation that collapsed under it’s own weight. I will make sure that will not happen with us even after our search engine is released. It’s all about people, and making sure that you don’t get people that are lazy or that suck.

]]> By: Jason http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676573 Jason Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:31:23 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676573 ElyFall, I see you not being in touch with reality. ElyFall, I see you not being in touch with reality.

]]> By: Deals and Coupons http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676572 Deals and Coupons Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:31:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676572 Good luck to all! Good luck to all!

]]> By: Rons Dixon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676554 Rons Dixon Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:16:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676554 This is very common, when a business refocuses and changes strategy. Quantity doesn't always means quality. So I am guessing here that the new strategy calls for a much leaner work force. Where profits can be maximized, hopefully they will return aol to its glory days or not.. This is very common, when a business refocuses and changes strategy. Quantity doesn’t always means quality. So I am guessing here that the new strategy calls for a much leaner work force. Where profits can be maximized, hopefully they will return aol to its glory days or not..

]]> By: ElyFall http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676549 ElyFall Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:13:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676549 You see 2000 layoffs, I see 2000 startups. You see 2000 layoffs, I see 2000 startups.

]]> By: former NC beauty queen http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676543 former NC beauty queen Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:05:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676543 @New Customers Online did you only read the headline? The article spells it out. @New Customers Online did you only read the headline? The article spells it out.

]]> By: New Customers Online http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1676531 New Customers Online Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:59:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/15/another-2000-heads-roll-at-aol/#comment-1676531 thank god i didn't take their job offer. 2,000 of how many? thank god i didn’t take their job offer.

2,000 of how many?

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