"ABEL, YOU'RE FIRED."

Brand under boil: AOL

Scene: Cafeteria at Patch’s headquarters in Manhattan

Patch Who: AOL's local news subsidiary

CEO under lens: Tim Armstrong

What really happened in the cafeteria, filled with employees to hear Tim’s ‘I want to deliver a News’ kind of speech.

News reports say that an employee was trying to take a photo of his CEO. (I have no idea why he did that when his CEO was blowing warm and hot)

Armstrong interrupted himself to say, "Abel, put that camera down right now."

Then, without taking a breath, he said, "Abel, you're fired."

The silence that followed this shocking incident was deafening not just to the employees at Patch but to the entire workforce!

It is good that CEOs are transparent... but a transparent and public firing!????! I am finding it tough to understand his over-the-top action even if he was in an irritable mood.

Catch the full story at: http://www.businessinsider.in/THE-COST-OF-WINNING-Tim-Armstrong-Patch-And-The-Struggle-To-Save-AOL/articleshow/25355140.cms#!

~ Satish Chathanath Call : 9884011654 Mail : csadhy@yahoo.co.in