The MM Network

[Jake]

Yeah, we both experienced the constant fear of being laid off. It happened quarterly and Joey unfortunately ended up victim to it. I left shortly after. I remember finding out about his departure (among a lot of others on that day) and then hearing that one of my closer coworkers had been laid off over the phone while she was on vacation with her family.

AOL was a very, very shitty culture masked by corporate parties, jeans and a keg-on-a-cart that came around on some Fridays. I spent the next couple of years at my next company still living/working in fear of being laid off, because of how I was conditioned at my first full-time gig as "that's how it is."