Azoogleads Fires 16 employees in one day! - Page 2 - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

DruSam · 10-02-2006, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by stanley

...and you are?

you know what starmarketbiz, I heard from a good source that you're a jackass. How's that for inside information?

hahahahaha

Ben · 10-02-2006, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by wickedfire2006

Alex's comment sounds to me like spin control. I was told by a pretty good source that the Azoogle people were let go because they are moving positions over to San Francisco. My source told me that nothing was said about redundancy or performance, but that they acquired a company in San Francisco and had to cut costs in Toronto.

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Originally Posted by starmarketbiz

Come on guys.... let's be realistic. I've heard from a good source that AzoogleAds is moving all of their operations to New York City. They are closing the TO office. They don't care anymore. After they got money from investors they ended firing the people that actually help built the company. Shame, shame on AzoogleAds for forgetting where they started.

This is either one guy, or two that know each other. I'm not a fan of slander so quit fucking around or there is going to be a lot of banning.

Andrew · 10-02-2006, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by stanley

...and you are?

all of a sudden we've got 1 post wonders who coincidentally know all the ins and outs of the industry

you know what starmarketbiz, I heard from a good source that you're a jackass. How's that for inside information?

I had something very similar to this happen on one of my forums this summer. We were making fun of some guy and suddenly the thread erupted into 5 pages of one post wonders.

Tom Wolf · 10-02-2006, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by starmarketbiz

Come on guys.... let's be realistic. I've heard from a good source that AzoogleAds is moving all of their operations to New York City. They are closing the TO office. They don't care anymore. After they got money from investors they ended firing the people that actually help built the company. Shame, shame on AzoogleAds for forgetting where they started.

LOL - Are you one of the 16 people they laid off? You might be right.

Money: The owners are trying to get as much money out of potential buyers as they possibly can. You can't fault them for that. New York is the media capital of the world and to a potential buyer, a home office in NYC is much more attractive than Markham, Ontario.

Cost cutting: I don't even know where Markham is, but I'm pretty sure that office space is 1/10th the price there as it is in Manhattan, so you can forget about the cost cutting nonsense. This is a smart business decision for the two owners. Instead of selling the company for 500 million dollars, they might double or triple that by assuming an American identity.

Having said that, it seems to be the Markham office that has brought this company to where they now stand, so I would assume that the individuals who lost their jobs were compensated accordingly, and been made aware of these moves well in advance. I would also assume that the have already been replaced, (and possibly even trained the people that will be taking over for them) as Azoogle cannot afford to leave any of their clients out to dry on this one.

JamesH · 10-02-2006, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Wolf

LOL - Are you one of the 16 people they laid off? You might be right.

Money: The owners are trying to get as much money out of potential buyers as they possibly can. You can't fault them for that. New York is the media capital of the world and to a potential buyer, a home office in NYC is much more attractive than Markham, Ontario.

Cost cutting: I don't even know where Markham is, but I'm pretty sure that office space is 1/10th the price there as it is in Manhattan, so you can forget about the cost cutting nonsense. This is a smart business decision for the two owners. Instead of selling the company for 500 million dollars, they might double or triple that by assuming an American identity.

Having said that, it seems to be the Markham office that has brought this company to where they now stand, so I would assume that the individuals who lost their jobs were compensated accordingly, and been made aware of these moves well in advance. I would also assume that the have already been replaced, (and possibly even trained the people that will be taking over for them) as Azoogle cannot afford to leave any of their clients out to dry on this one.

Jackass, why did you make your text different....

Ben · 10-02-2006, 09:36 PM

These 1 post wonders are all coming from Toronto, same service provider... sounds like this guy wasn't happy about getting the ax

Take your fucking slander somewhere else.

Andrew · 10-02-2006, 10:27 PM

Do we need a fake drama tag?

Saadh · 10-02-2006, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew

Do we need a fake drama tag?

wtf is everyone talking about? this shit is intense!!!!!!!!!

xazoogler · 10-03-2006, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by AZAlex

No spin control at all. There were individuals in our Toronto office that were no longer necessary because other individuals in our other offices were performing their jobs.

Some people were let go due to performance issues, but this only affected a few individuals. We routinely let go of individuals that don't meet our peformance standards - as does any company in any industry.

Thanks.
Alex

Alex as an xazoogler, why dont you tell them the truth. That your daily revenues have gone down. That you have closed the doors on Giftfox, Bluetime, Coregio and Mport. All iniatives created by you to save the day, that failed under your leadership. And where is Spicymint - about to fail i guess.

Remember what goes around comes around.

I hope you attended Yom Kippur services yesterday to atone for your sins and those people you have wronged - your xazooglers.

Tell the truth Alex

Ben · 10-03-2006, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by xazoogler

Alex as an xazoogler, why dont you tell them the truth. That your daily revenues have gone down. That you have closed the doors on Giftfox, Bluetime, Coregio and Mport. All iniatives created by you to save the day, that failed under your leadership. And where is Spicymint - about to fail i guess.

Remember what goes around comes around.

I hope you attended Yom Kippur services yesterday to atone for your sins and those people you have wronged - your xazooglers.

Tell the truth Alex

Why do you feel the need to post under a bunch of different usernames? If you have beef with azoogle don't be a pussy about it.

pax · 10-03-2006, 11:22 AM

hilarious.

Palmerville · 10-03-2006, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by xazoogler

Alex as an xazoogler, why dont you tell them the truth. That your daily revenues have gone down. That you have closed the doors on Giftfox, Bluetime, Coregio and Mport. All iniatives created by you to save the day, that failed under your leadership. And where is Spicymint - about to fail i guess.

Remember what goes around comes around.

I hope you attended Yom Kippur services yesterday to atone for your sins and those people you have wronged - your xazooglers.

Tell the truth Alex

I've worked for a lot of companies and have never seen a positive / productive / profitable employee canned. If you added more to the business than you took away you'd probably still have a job. Take this as an opportunity to grow your skillset, maybe this business isn't for you. There are no free lunches, get out there find something you're good at and work your ass off. Don't be a lazy bitter punk and cry about how you lost your job on a message board. They probably did you a favor.

The world doesn't owe you damn thing.

Jdog · 10-03-2006, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Ben

Why do you feel the need to post under a bunch of different usernames? If you have beef with azoogle don't be a pussy about it.

Agreed, if you know Alex then you should face up to him with your real name. Right now you have zero credibility.

chris22 · 10-03-2006, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by xazoogler

Alex as an xazoogler, why dont you tell them the truth. That your daily revenues have gone down. That you have closed the doors on Giftfox, Bluetime, Coregio and Mport. All iniatives created by you to save the day, that failed under your leadership. And where is Spicymint - about to fail i guess.

Remember what goes around comes around.

I hope you attended Yom Kippur services yesterday to atone for your sins and those people you have wronged - your xazooglers.

Tell the truth Alex

"Getting fired is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives." -Tyler Durden

You can bank more as an affiliate, than as an employee. As a previous employee of a CPA network, you should know the ropes. If not, maybe that's why you got fired.

AZAlex · 10-03-2006, 02:05 PM

Just to clarify:

If any of our ex employees are reading these posts, I apologize if I’ve offended you. None of the individuals who were terminated last week were terminated for performance issues, their positions had simply been eliminated and/or were redundant as they were being handled by our other offices. Several months ago we let go of several people, and those terminations were done for performance reasons. I think very highly of the folks we let go of very recently and would re-hire them had we had a position for them in Toronto.

Jon · 10-03-2006, 05:41 PM

All I gotta say is WOW. Never thought we'd get such a huge response from this story.. just goes to show you the power of WickedFire..

Azoogleads = Remember.. Bad PR is also Good PR

Jon · 10-03-2006, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben

Why do you feel the need to post under a bunch of different usernames? If you have beef with azoogle don't be a pussy about it.

I don't agree.. I think that sometimes you need to post anonymously, and it's good that people, disgruntled or not come out and post, just so long as whatever is being said is fact, and not slanderous and fiction. You need to get it out sometimes instead of keeping it all bottled up inside, it's theraputic. So by all means, all of you former Azoogleads reps and AM's keep posting, just make sure it's legitimate, and not false. I also have a lot of respect for Alex coming on here and setting things straight and answering the posts made by the former AM's, it shows that even though they may be pissed off about the recent decision, that Azoogleads still cares what they think. If they didn't, they'd just dismiss it or ignore it.

Some may think that this is not a good thing, but it is. In the longrun it's good when former employees say what needs to be said so they don't hold hardcore longterm grudges that can ultimately bite the former employer in the ass years down the road. Some of it may not sound so nice, but it needs to get out, and again, as long as it's TRUE and not just some bullshit slanderous thing being tossed out there to make someone or a company look bad, then it's perfectly fine.

Uzzz · 10-03-2006, 05:56 PM

yaa...stop putting down Toronto jerks!... Noone wants to move to crappy NY from T.O like come on

.... ahh i feel much better already.

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Ben Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chicago NWS Posts: 1,355 iTrader: (0)	These 1 post wonders are all coming from Toronto, same service provider... sounds like this guy wasn't happy about getting the ax Take your fucking slander somewhere else. __________________ Happy WF Clients: Jon, Brandon, Mill, DanNicol, engaged, Lazar, EduardoM3, darkdrift, smaxor

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Jon Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New York City Posts: 7,327 iTrader: (0)	All I gotta say is WOW. Never thought we'd get such a huge response from this story.. just goes to show you the power of WickedFire.. Azoogleads = Remember.. Bad PR is also Good PR __________________ There's someone in my head... but its not me.

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AZAlex Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 44 iTrader: (0)	Just to clarify: If any of our ex employees are reading these posts, I apologize if I’ve offended you. None of the individuals who were terminated last week were terminated for performance issues, their positions had simply been eliminated and/or were redundant as they were being handled by our other offices. Several months ago we let go of several people, and those terminations were done for performance reasons. I think very highly of the folks we let go of very recently and would re-hire them had we had a position for them in Toronto.

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Uzzz Death im yur Bitch Lover! Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada, T.O Posts: 1,089 iTrader: (1)	yaa...stop putting down Toronto jerks!... Noone wants to move to crappy NY from T.O like come on .... ahh i feel much better already.

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