Comments on: Insight Into Yahoo’s Exiting Employees, Comparison to AOL

By: Microhoo: No Deal

Microhoo: No Deal — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:28:16 +0000

[...] 4/15/2008: Both companies meet to discuss company cultures and their value they both provide. (You can also read my observations on Corporate culture between Yahoo and AOL.) [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:38:32 +0000

DaWhoo,

Thanks for commenting. I’m curious who you are, possibly we worked together? (E-mail me, joemanna at gmail dot com).

Anyhow, I partially agree. AOL is a business which isn’t aimed at employee satisfaction. From my understanding AOL sold the PHI call center to eTelecare, but at the same time renewed the contracts. In any case, I bet it was for the long term strategy of bailing out of Philippines, despite the tremendous amount of talent there.

It should also be noted, AOL also sold off their last Bangalore, India based operations to another BPO provider, Aegis. (http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-aol-sells-its-last-call-center-to-aegis/)

~Joe

By: DaWhoo

DaWhoo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:03:30 +0000

AOL didn’t care about the employees in the Philippines. They sold it to Etelecare and that’s it no nothing else. They left fast just like a finger snap.

ex AOL employee

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:04:13 +0000

I guess we should’ve sold at $22/share. Whoops! I still want to hold out hope though.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:38:26 +0000

Thanks, jdoe. Indeed a typo. Thanks also for citing the source.

Any other thoughts on the rest?

~joe

By: jdoe

jdoe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:29:30 +0000

Re: #1

Time Warner did not acquire AOL. America Online, Inc. acquired Time Warner.

http://money.cnn.com/2000/01/10/deals/aol_warner/