Well I guess the beatings will continue until morale improves at AOL.
The call was supposed to be Armstrong's attempt to rally the troops.
During
the first minute or so of the recording, Armstrong says things like:
"If you don't believe what I'm about to say, I'm going to ask you to
leave Patch…We have to get Patch into a place where it's going to be
successful."
But then things go suddenly awry.
At exactly two minutes into the recording, Armstrong addresses someone in the room with him.
He says, "Abel, put that camera down, now."
Then, without taking a breath, Armstrong says, "Abel, you're fired. Out."
Yup whoever Abel was he got fired for holding up a camera. Supposedly he was supposed to take pictures for that Patch website but I guess the CEO didn't want that happening. If I was on that board I would look into replacing Armstrong with a decent human being.
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I have better feelings about douche than this guy.
You should also note that in his little pep talk he mentioned how if anything at all happened it was HIS responsibility and that they were one big happy FAMILY. I think he mentioned if it was anything from the copy machine...blah, blah, blah. And he said he was totally OK with anything anyone wanted to leak to the press, well, except for anyone taking pictures.
So, fast forward a few months. Patch is on the skids, losing between $200-300 million, over the half the employees are fired in a very classy manner. Herd employees into two rooms, and depending on how you look at it, Room A wins(?) and keeps their jobs, Room B gets fired en masse.
Now, a couple of his "family's" babies were near death and they had to spend a whole $2 million so they could live. Gosh, families are so darn inconvenient. aren't they? So let's punish everyone else by making sure their 401Ks aren't as profitable and use them as enslavement leverage.
Meanwhile, Timmy's raking in a mere $12 million. One wonders how he manages to survive on such a pittance.
Also wondering how Faux News is going to spin this one.
I have better feelings about douche than this guy.
You should also note that in his little pep talk he mentioned how if anything at all happened it was HIS responsibility and that they were one big happy FAMILY. I think he mentioned if it was anything from the copy machine...blah, blah, blah. And he said he was totally OK with anything anyone wanted to leak to the press, well, except for anyone taking pictures.
So, fast forward a few months. Patch is on the skids, losing between $200-300 million, over the half the employees are fired in a very classy manner. Herd employees into two rooms, and depending on how you look at it, Room A wins(?) and keeps their jobs, Room B gets fired en masse.
Now, a couple of his "family's" babies were near death and they had to spend a whole $2 million so they could live. Gosh, families are so darn inconvenient. aren't they? So let's punish everyone else by making sure their 401Ks aren't as profitable and use them as enslavement leverage.
Meanwhile, Timmy's raking in a mere $12 million. One wonders how he manages to survive on such a pittance.
Also wondering how Faux News is going to spin this one.
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