Earthlink Cuts 900 Jobs > hmmmm

hmmmm

I worked with Earthlink until the big layoff in March of 04. That's when they let go of thousands, boasting that in two years from that point, their stock prices would go up and they would save millions of dollars. When I left, the stock price was somewhere around ten dollars. Now it's 25% less than that.

I was in the Harrisburg office. When they left, I knew of a handful of folks that took up jobs in Atlanta and and even smaller few who still held jobs in Harrisburg, but I believe they held more critical positions as they were one of the few who had the knowledge to keep that portion of the company going. In the Web Hosting division, I know of two to three folks who managed to keep their jobs. I wasn't quite sure where their office was, but I thought I remembered someone mention that it was going to be that small one by Home Depot (Lowes, whatever the hell it is now), Pet Smart, etc, off of Derry Street.

Either way, it's been Earthlink's middle and upper management that has dropped the ball on this, but their employees paid the price. They've been on the steady decline since the company took over (merge? lol) Mindspring.

Oh well. Nearly four years later. Finding a tech job in a suddenly saturated market wasn't easy.
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