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AOL Exec Is Reportedly Locked Out
Associated Press
| August 14, 2002
Posted on 08/14/2002 6:56:07 AM PDT by HAL9000
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posted on
08/14/2002 6:56:07 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
You know the jig is up when your key doesn't work.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
You DON'T have mail, either...
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posted on
08/14/2002 6:58:56 AM PDT
by
ken5050
To: ken5050
As somebody else said on a thread a few weeks ago, "You've got jail!.
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:02:57 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
AOL/TW is caught between a rock and a hard place....Obviously, they feel he did something wrong, becasue they canned him summarily, but he's the type of manager who's high enough to know whee the bodied are buried and who knew what, yet he's low enough on the pecking order that he'll get a deal from the feds to roll over on the higher-ups, in return for a pass.....I think it's called being hoisted on your own petard...
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:10:52 AM PDT
by
ken5050
To: HAL9000
Colburn was locked out of his office on Friday at the company's Dulles headquarters
The other issue is whether he was under contract with them. It isnt that unusual.
Our COO was ushered out the door once. He spent the remaining three years of a five year contract sitting at home while collecting full pay and benefits plus a percentage of sales from products.
Sort of an expensive termination, IMO, but its a good gig if you can get it I suppose.
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:17:59 AM PDT
by
Who dat?
To: Howlin
Or even..."You'll Need Bail!"
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:19:23 AM PDT
by
Orangedog
To: ken5050; Orangedog
I hope Steve Case is next on their "hit list." I hold him personally responsible for all those AOL disks that come to this house!
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:21:46 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Eric in the Ozarks
You know the jig is up when your key doesn't work. Yup. Or as in the movie "Fun With Dick and Jane" when you pull into the parking lot and they are removing your name from the reserved space.
BTW "Fun" was a very funny movie even though it does star Hanoi Jane. Guy gets laid off and proceeds to go into the robbery business. His first attempt at robbery at an all-night drug store is VERY funny.
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:23:08 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
To: HAL9000
We all knew that AOL was doomed to failure. You don't prey on your customers like that and survive in the long term. The only question was "when?".
They have done everything on the list of "How to Rip-off Your Customers" and some of their lemmings are starting to catch on. They had to know that this was going to happen at some point in time, but hopefully, after they had reaped their harvest of $$.
There are websites devoted to dealing with AOL abuses. How long did they think they could get by with it?
To: Eric in the Ozarks
We did this to a manager while he was on vacation. We changed the whole knob assembly and left him a note supposedly signed by a VP telling him to report immediately.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
You know the jig is up when your key doesn't work. That used to be standard operating procedure in the oil industry, 30 years ago.
More recently, they've gotten much more sophisticated. They call you to the boss's office early one morning, and you walk in and the Death Angel from HR is sitting there with the boss, waiting for you.
Or the boss comes by your office and closes the door behind him and pronounces the magic words, "Bob, you got a minute?"
To: ken5050
Right and his new email addy is via Adelphia.....
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:26:07 AM PDT
by
cynicom
To: Howlin
Case will probably go soon....IMHO, he's on;y styaying on so that he can keep an eye on what's happening with the investigation...once you're out..you lose control of everything.....he made a fortune....and for execs like him, the issue is not so much jail time from criminal violations as it is disgorgement in civil suits.....it's a different tort environment out there, now.....
BTW...TW can't divest AOL....becuase of the debt load....so they're stuck...and in big trouble...because Parsons is NOT the guy to fix this....he's clueless
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:26:21 AM PDT
by
ken5050
To: AppyPappy
We changed the whole knob assembly and left him a note supposedly signed by a VP telling him to report immediately. And you're still there?!
To: lentulusgracchus
No. He never found out who did it. Plus he was sleeping with the VP's secretary so he couldn't say anything.
To: capt. norm
How long did they think they could get by with it? How long has P. T. Barnum been dead?
To: ken5050
Hey what do you think of "T"? -- Armstrong was on MSNBC night before last.
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posted on
08/14/2002 7:29:59 AM PDT
by
bvw
To: HAL9000
Maybe Doug from Upland can do a parody on the old Kingston Trio song about the "Tiajuana Jail" Just send our mail, to the Club Fed Jail?
To: HAL9000
And Mr. Colburn discovers what most of us already knew:
AOL SUCKS.
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