[Novalug] AOL, anyone there?

[David Zakar]

I work in AOL's anti-spam operations' postmaster team. Standard disclaimers
apply as to me not talking officially for my employer, etc. Just my personal
opinions.
 
Let's be realistic: if they're moving HQ to NYC, there's a whole slew of
jobs that are going to have to move out there, too. I fully expect any cuts
that are coming will probably take the form of "move to NYC or get laid off"
- at least at first, anyways. I have NOT heard anything about any layoffs on
Tuesday, in any case. Some of my co-workers are fairly well connected, so I
feel as if I would have heard something about it if it had.
 
The technical/IT guys shouldn't have much to worry about - there's no
indication whatsoever that any of those jobs are going to NYC. I'd be a lot
more worried about layoffs due to us hemmoraghing dial-up subscribers
without generating the ad revenue to compensate for them. :)
 
-DMZ

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From: Kevin Chin [mailto:kevinchin5 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:26 AM
To: gregory pryzby
Cc: Northern Virginia Linux User's Group
Subject: Re: [Novalug] AOL, anyone there?


Had lunch with a friend who works there last week... Rumor is that "major"
cuts are expected.  I don't know what that means.  I do know that it's no
fun being in an environment when you don't know who or how many jobs are
threatened. 

--Kc




On 9/26/07, gregory pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote: 

Rumor is middle management took a hit on Tuesday and maybe more
happened or more to come. details are sketchy right now.

fwiw, every august (well, for the 3 I was there) it was time to time
the staff 10%.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:07:12AM -0700, Fearer, Mark wrote:
> What's the deal? I only heard about some executives moving to New York.
>
>
>
> gregory pryzby < greg at pryzby.org <mailto:greg at pryzby.org> > wrote:
>
>     Sounds like AOL is shedding some of the work force.
>
>     Hope our Novalug friends are ok.

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