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The Story Behind Why Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers

• al2o3cr 13y ago
  "You can blame me for everything - but 40% of you are outta here, and I'm not." Seriously - that BI piece really tries to make the reader feel sorry for Armstrong, but he got $12 million (in 2012) for fucking things up while the little guys got pink slips.
  • mathattack 13y ago
    They definitely paint him as a narcissist. :-) I thought it was a fairly balanced portrayal. That said, nothing in the article convinced me that AOL wouldn't have been better off just mining the AOL subscription revenue and paying it back to shareholders. (2 billion a year in 2008, still 800 million in 2012 according to their most recent 10K http://ir.aol.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=147895&p=irol-10k10q http://ir.aol.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=147895&p=irol-10k10q)
• ableal 13y ago
  Incidentally, "relevant Dilbert" at http://dilbert.com/fast/2013-11-03/ http://dilbert.com/fast/2013-11-03/
  • mathattack 13y ago
    He's plugged in to the times. If it were the Onion, they'd have done it a year before the incident. :-)