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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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The way one stoy can be spun in totally different ways never ceases to amaze me. Here's one I thought was particularly interesting.
AOL laying off about 1,300 employees Quote:
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It looks like in a few years, AOL will have gone the way of Netscape the dodo. And good riddance. |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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While I'd love to see AOL roast in hell, I'm not sure if it's fair to say that they're laying off because they're losing customers. They may be well telling truth about self-help, and I would think it a good thing. (even accounting for major leakage of subcribers)
But yes, the euphemisms really make them look silly, especially that rebalancing part. If I were in the charge, I'd like to be honest with my employees- "Here's what we are trying to accomplish here- we want our customers to be self-sufficient and that will help us save money. Therefore we may expect reduced call volume over time." That way, my employees know exactly what to expect and prepare. However, I doubt those poor suckers knew anything until WHAM! Pink slips galore. |
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Only by virtue of being buried in Warner has kept them alive this long, and that merger pretty much ruined Time-Warner anyway.
Could they save more money by not sending me their flipping discs every 2 months? "What's a Canadian farm boy to do?" |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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I can say that if AOL didn't exist anymore, I would be happier and the world would be a better place. Seriously.
I had so many problems with them in the past. I had to cancel my AOL account 5 separate times before they finally actually did it. It nearly took a legal threat for them to refund the 5 months of service that they charged me for after I canceled the first time. The same things happened to my grandma when she got AOL. I think AOL realizes they're in trouble, anything less than going under completely has to be considered a resounding success for them. Come waste your time with me |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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What I don't get is why they did it in first place. I mean, who seriously thought that screwing customers would get you more and more money in long run?
Either all bigwigs up there are monkeys or 'tards or they slept through their MBA classes and missed out the point that if you invest even a little bit in customers, you got your duplicate services which gives you long term cash flow. Just don't get it. Not at all. On an aside, did anyone here thought AOL was good or even great waaayyyy back in old days of 14.4 modem and 1.44 Mb Floppy disks? I recall it being great on my old Mac SE.... |
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I have AOL DSL never had one problem. My DSL router broke once, we called them and a man came to our house, replaced our router for FREE. We pay $25 a month for DSL internet and up to 7 email adresses, that work with mail. I also use AIM. I don't have a problem with AOL on a mac, but AOL on a pc es teh suck.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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AOL for mac is one of the worst written apps in the history of computers. It is a leech, a resource hog, and a horrible UI nightmare. Using it is akin to stabbing oneself in the genitals over and over with a rusty spoon while simultaneously drinking some sort of noxious substance like hydrochloric acid. AOL and Norton should be friends.
Edit: It's also a rip off. AOL is a bunch of lying suck bags who barely deserve to live in a van down by the river. They take too much of people's hard earned money and give them less than sub par service in return. When people finally realize that the moment they gave AOL their credit card number they essentially bent over and presented and said in a less than sexy voice, "no baby, we don't need lube" than they cancel and AOL says, "just one more minute, I'm almost done!" Than 5 months later, they finally stop, but they won't take back any of the spunk they left all over your "computer." Screw AOL. You just took several steps down on the food chain for saying something like, "I don't have a problem with AOL on a Mac." You disgust me. Come waste your time with me |
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I didn't mean the software. With AOL DSL I use safari.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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I repeat: Screw AOL.
Stop giving them your or anyone else's money. |
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why? We have had zero problems.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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Because AOL ranks right behind the devil, Al Sharpton, and Pat Robertson in terms of level of evil, usefulness, and inability to do things correctly. To put it nicely, AOL sucks big floppy donkey dick. Not just AOL the application, but AOL the company as well. Any company who intentionally doesn't cancel their customer's accounts when asked to shouldn't be allowed to exist anymore. Any company who hides charges on bills and than throws them in every 6 months or so so that the user doesn't realize they've been getting charged for things shouldn't be allowed to exist any more. Any company that is as badly managed and has as poor of ethics as AOL shouldn't be allowed to do business with anyone, anywhere.
That is why you should get rid of it. It's a waste of your money and you're only fueling the monster that is AOL. Call up today and try to cancel, I bet you a years worth of DSL that they'll immediately try to sell you there service back and I'd almost be willing to bet another year of DSL that they don't actually cancel your account the first time around. Come waste your time with me |
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Meh. The numerous AOL 'free trial' CDs from he late nineties made good coasters. For this I am thankful. I'd never subscribe though. My ISP gives me double the download speed (4Mbps v 2Mbps) at a lower price. (Only a penny, but a penny saved is a penny earned, as they say)
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