Sunday, January 2, 2011

AOL’s Awkward Billboard Ad About Your Boss



“Come work for AOL before your boss does.”


I still don’t get why our parent company spells AOL in all caps but uses “Aol” in its logo. There’s probably a memo around here somewhere that explains it. But that isn’t what this post is about.


This is a picture of a new billboard ad recently put up along highway 101 in Silicon Valley, visible to southbound traffic around the Whipple exit a few miles north of Palo Alto. We first heard about it from a tipster, who called it “odd.” And I agree.


It’s not that AOL isn’t super awesome to work for some of the time. They have a great new office in Palo Alto that we don’t have to actually go to, and Molly in human resources is extremely helpful and efficient. AOL is Shangri-La compared to working at Yahoo.


But people aren’t exactly fleeing their jobs to go there, at least as far as I know. If you want to go work somewhere in Silicon Valley before your boss does, it’s Facebook, Twitter or Zynga. The pre-IPO startups.


It seems a little, I dunno, over-confident.


Nevertheless, they’re hiring. So if neither you nor your boss can get a job at one of those hot pre-IPO companies you may want to consider an exciting and rewarding career at AOL. People with extremely large red heads are preferred.


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