www.drudgereport.com 1/24/01
Sounds like ole Ted has taken some lessons from his new Russian friends:
snip..CNN tells staffers to get out..asap[-!-]
..CNN COO says layoffs "nothing material", but thousands of staffers were just told to get outta Dodge..{almost before sundown!}
...Hundreds were forced to sign 'releases' and severances.
....Security card-keys and IDs rapidly confiscated, after Sr staff changed passwords on the computers, cutting off fired employees from their file use, their e-mail, etc.
..some returning to their desks to find their phones already cut off.
Armed security guards standing watch as fired employees clean out their desks...then the guards 'escort' them to the exits.
..One fired on-air talking head in LA said.."I feel like a criminal.."
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Remember just last week CNN COO said this merger is .."not about layoffs.."
Last yr, Ted Turner said it this way...."this merger will allow {AOL-TW} to be the most socially-conscious company ..on earth".
Yeah, right. Man, am I ever glad I got off A$$holesOnLine last year[:D]