"... suspicious foreign person Arianna Huffington". I know that he's not a big fan of Arianna's but that statement makes him sound like a Xenophobe.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the kind of post that really should not be TL;DRed, because it's so much fun to read. The story is sad and even infuriating, and not very original either (since all corporate takeovers are done in the same cowardly manner by weasels); but the writing is wonderful. > The transition was going to be arduous and complicated. This was particularly true for the people who write AOL's press releases, who had to work…
I think that AOL/Huff has actually been fairly distinct in how badly they have handled these layoffs. It seems like "Transition 101" to share the fired/staying personell information all at once. To drag it out over any period of time just seems extremely odd.
It was handled in a Monthy Python's way, as per the opening credits of The Holy Grail:
> A Møøse once bit my sister ...
We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
Møøse trained by TUTTE HERMSGERVORDENBROTBORDA
(...)
The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
(etc.)
- - -
It's unwise to fire the firers at the same time as the firees.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the kind of post that really should not be TL;DRed, because it's so much fun to read. The story is sad and even infuriating, and not very original either (since all corporate takeovers are done in the same cowardly manner by weasels); but the writing is wonderful. > The transition was going to be arduous and complicated. This was particularly true for the people who write AOL's press releases, who had to work…
I think that AOL/Huff has actually been fairly distinct in how badly they have handled these layoffs. It seems like "Transition 101" to share the fired/staying personell information all at once. To drag it out over any period of time just seems extremely odd.
AOL has long tradition of laying people off sporadically: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-aol-layoffs-....
Don't assume this a new thing.
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#24I didn't want to even read that, but it was so well written that I couldn't stop.
Ditto, pretty hilarious. "You've got fail."
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#26Money quote is - AOL: you've got fail. Just one of the many points where this guy made me chortle with schadenfreudige glee.
really? ... I thought it was "Please. We may be whores, but we are not sluts."
OK, that's the other money quote. Actually, there was a lot of quotable material in there.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
really? ... I thought it was "Please. We may be whores, but we are not sluts."
OK, that's the other money quote. Actually, there was a lot of quotable material in there.
Indeed, at least one of the lines was lifted directly from a film. When I ran across that all-caps line at the end of the please-don't-reply-all section, I couldn't help hearing it in Gene Wilder's voice ala Willy Wonka.
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#28Money quote is - AOL: you've got fail. Just one of the many points where this guy made me chortle with schadenfreudige glee.
"suspicious foreign person Arianna Huffington" made me snort my coffee...
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#30TL;DR: It's a well written chronicle of the corporate communication that occurred during the restructuring of cinematical.com/moviefone.com under AOL after they were bought from Huffington. The author wrote freelance for cinematical. After the editor-in-chief at cinematical resigned (and two other editors there had resigned), the editor-in-chief of moviefone was apparently put in charge of corralling the freelancers.…
> TL;DR
But then you'd miss this:
"Non-paid blogger system"? Please. We may be whores, but we are not sluts.
Genius.