AOL Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong allegedly fired a top-level exec for simply taking his picture.
According to Jim Romenesko , AOL's Patch division is facing yet another round of layoff's that could number in the hundreds.
It was during this meeting that Armstrong allegedly fired Abel Lenz, AOL's Creative Director, for snapping his picture .
“Abel, put that camera down. You’re fired. Out,” Armstrong said. After a pause of about five seconds, he then continued the call as though nothing had happened.
Then after about five more minutes of talking about whatever, he threw in “and the reason I fired Abel before was I don’t want anyone taking pictures of this meeting.” He invoked some kind of comparison to a sports team’s locker room.
But he seriously fired someone live on a conference call with the entire company … a call that informed us that no one would be laid off today but that instead the layoffs (sorry, “impacts”) would happen at different junctures next week depending on the success of finding “partners” for moribund Patch sites.
Tough times at AOL.
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