Getting Fired Was the Best Thing To Ever Happen - Local Editor Patch Employee Review

A few weeks ago, I had a stress dream about my former boss offering me a job at Patch, a higher title, more work and probably the same pay. I woke up and was immediately relieved to remember that we had all been let go at about the same time. When a company starts off with a 75% layoff, that shouldn't inspire confidence. Even before Hale took over, under AOL's tutelage, it was enough to turn me off journalism forever. Low pay, absurd expectations, stretching people thinner and thinner. I can't see a possible way for Hale to have taken the already unpleasant-to-live-through model AOL left behind, and made it at all tenable. Run. Run fast.