Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Huffington Post Owner AOL Lays Off 5% Of Staff: 500 Workers Lose Their Jobs
Zero Hedge ^ | 11/17/2016

Posted on 11/17/2016 10:24:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last
To: Qiviut

“After this, it’s going to be darn near impossible to even get into the building at a GA (Gloaters Anonymous) meeting - it’s already standing room only.”

We are thinking about reserving the Rose Bowl for a West Coast GA meeting when Trump is sworn in.

However, we don’t want to give the LA area our bucks.


21 posted on 11/17/2016 11:20:10 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Raoul’s Law...


22 posted on 11/17/2016 11:22:15 AM PST by gogeo (That's my Trumpy!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Good. Their resumes have the kiss-of-death on them: working for huffington post.


23 posted on 11/17/2016 11:31:59 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
The mainstream media is going to take a MAJOR beating because they've shown themselves as essentially state-run media like the Soviet Union-era Pravda.
24 posted on 11/17/2016 11:40:07 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

While I continue to drown in a Sea of Liberal Tears, the Tsunami is picking up speed.


25 posted on 11/17/2016 11:41:46 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Grampa Dave

Well getting a good package but i suspect yes being replaced by Indian workers...


26 posted on 11/17/2016 11:46:12 AM PST by dpetty121263
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: dpetty121263; george76

Take the package, walk away and never look back.

In 1996, I and others in our company got a good separation package.

My package was good enough that I didn’t have to work a year. I developed new skills and got a job as an independent contractor that lasted 6 years until I saw the same BS happening with that company. So I quit consulting with them.

Many of those, who didn’t take the first offer from my original company, were treated like trash and then let go with a terrible separation package. A couple of years down the road or less depending on their managers. Many got canned within months after the first round of layoffs.

A few years later the skeleton crew of a once viable corporation was without a place to go to work. Their goodbye package was even less than the second one. They were ushered off the corporate property with a kinko box for their personal office stuff by armed guards to trailers for their separation from the company. Then, driven by the guards to their parked cars. Next, the security guards escorted their vehicles off the property to a city street near the plant and home office. They were told not to never come back on the corporate property. If they tried, they would be arrested.


27 posted on 11/17/2016 12:04:53 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Grampa Dave

LOL!!


28 posted on 11/17/2016 12:08:22 PM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Qiviut

Huffington Post........A liberal rag? Nothing could please me more to see their staff ‘unemployed’.


29 posted on 11/17/2016 12:52:55 PM PST by DaveA37
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
No wonder AOL is losing "members" -- they haven't been sending these out for a long time:


30 posted on 11/17/2016 12:59:37 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Grampa Dave

<< They were ushered off the corporate property with a kinko box for their personal office stuff by armed guards to trailers for their separation from the company. >>

Then ... cut up their company credit cards ..


31 posted on 11/17/2016 1:56:27 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: george76

<< They were ushered off the corporate property with a kinko box for their personal office stuff by armed guards to trailers for their separation from the company. >>

Then ... cut up their company credit cards ..Took/scraped their parking permits of their personal cars and ask for their business cards to get their separation packages.

Then, they and their cars were led to the local city streets and told to drive away.


32 posted on 11/17/2016 4:16:22 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: dpetty121263

Sorry to hear that. I hope you find something soon.


33 posted on 11/18/2016 1:53:49 AM PST by Read Write Repeat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Grampa Dave

Companies don’t do that anymore. We’re lucky to get a week or two of severance pay.


34 posted on 11/18/2016 2:06:10 AM PST by Read Write Repeat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Read Write Repeat

You are correct.

It depends on how damaging realities you have on the company trying to get rid of you, if they are trying to stay viable.


35 posted on 11/18/2016 8:09:00 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Grampa Dave

That doesn’t apply anymore. New rules are we’re lucky if they keep us around to train our H1-B replacements.


36 posted on 11/18/2016 12:14:44 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Sorry, but just what does AOL do these days

Will it make my 300 or so in the cellophane or plastic or metal boxes Floppy disks and DVD’s more valuable? They are all in virgin, unopened packages and trace AOL sales gambits from very early on.


37 posted on 11/18/2016 12:19:14 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closet?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson