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AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music

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Re: AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music

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Post by anigbrowl »

dopamean wrote: post #17
anigbrowl wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you want to hire someone that live tweets everything that goes on at your firm? Most companies would rather not risk being held hostage (so to speak) by their employees if the management decides it needs to shut down a department or stop offering a product.

How did live tweeting that you're being fired get turned into "everything that goes on at your firm?"

I should have had the word 'potentially' in there.

Re: AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music

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Post by teraflop »

dkulchenko wrote: post #6
nathanb wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the same. Should probably read "AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music And Spinner; Staff Live-Tweet the Whole Thing"

The fact that they didn't write it that way makes it seem like a deliberately misleading headline.

I suspect they just omitted a comma; it should have been "AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music And Firing Staff, Who Are Live-Tweeting The Bloodbath".

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Post by eli »

traeblain wrote: post #2

WinAMP and ShoutCast are no longer a fit for AOL. This is most likely the writing on the wall for them. Sad because WinAMP is still a great product.

If you haven't already read it, this long Winamp retrospective from Ars last year is really worth it:

Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-...

Re: AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music

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Post by weitzj »

Man... That's bad.Aol Music really has unique, good, high quality video content. For me the content was always hard to find, but when I found a star I wanted to watch/listen, I was amazed what exclusive videos they have had produced with that particular star.

- maybe I confuse Aol Sessions with Aol music - Aol sessions is great.

Re: AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music

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Post by eli »

eterm wrote: post #12
Zikes wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Are they in danger of being fired for it?

There's a difference between being fired and being made redundant usually. (Although perhaps US terminology is different, in the UK usually "fired" refers to dismissal, redundancy is a different process with more compensation and a process employers must follow.)

The equivalent phrase here would probably be "laid off" but the definitions are a little fuzzy. People say "laid off" as a polite euphemism for fired and people use "fired" when they're upset about about being laud off.

Re: AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music

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Post by adventured »

notmarkus wrote: post #8

Live tweeting that you're getting fired seems like a terrible idea to me.

The only reason I can think of that it'd be a terrible idea, is the company might then choose to be dicks about how they treat you post firing, regarding negotiations on benefits or any number of smaller details.
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