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7. I wonder if the rank and file employees

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

Sat Aug 10, 2013, 07:31 PM

Aug 2013

including upper management could just fire the CEO by uniformly and in unison walk out of the company and start work on a competing product/business. Call it BOL or something and do whatever they were doing, but done right and without the supervision of this a-hole.

Let the company try and hire people to replace everyone who left. It'll take years just to make heads or tails of what was being done.

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"stone cold" - it sure is DrDan Aug 2013 #1

Lenz always took photos at meetings and posted them to the company's intranet. He didn't leak them. stevenleser Aug 2013 #2

Thanks UpInArms for posting this. red dog 1 Aug 2013 #3

Another sociopath elevated to CEO of a company ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2013 #4

Now days it's a prerequisite for the job. yourout Aug 2013 #6

k&r avaistheone1 Aug 2013 #20

Sociopaths are persons of choice for management. ConcernedCanuk Aug 2013 #21

So, "impacts" is what they are calling it now? Ilsa Aug 2013 #5

I wonder if the rank and file employees adieu Aug 2013 #7

It would be a good bet, too adieu Aug 2013 #8

AOL still exists? Thor_MN Aug 2013 #9

Good question RC Aug 2013 #10

A lot of people don't know any better Seedersandleechers Aug 2013 #11

My thoughts exactly tonekat Aug 2013 #12

The majority of their business is advertising and media, not the old ISP. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2013 #13

Huffington Post is the only reason AOL still exist, IMHO. sarcasmo Aug 2013 #19

how to make Yahoo look good PatrynXX Aug 2013 #14

Outside of its employees (and any unlucky investors) . . . MrModerate Aug 2013 #15

this was Xerxes's management style, according to Herodotus MisterP Aug 2013 #16

Both Xerxes I and II came to bad ends ... nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2013 #18

AOL = America's Online Losers. n/t RoccoR5955 Aug 2013 #17