Tim Armstrong Apologizes for Conference Call Canning
We’re not sure why it took AOL CEO Tim Armstrong two full business days to circulate an internal apology for his on-the-spot firing of Patch creative director Abel Lenz while chairing a Friday August 9 company-wide conference call. But per Romenesko, Peter Kafka and others, that missive has finally been dispatched:
Internal meetings of a confidential nature should not be filmed or recorded so that our employees can feel free to discuss all topics openly. Abel had been told previously not to record a confidential meeting, and he repeated that behavior on Friday, which drove my actions…
On Friday I acted too quickly and I learned a tremendous lesson and I wanted you to hear that directly from me…
Ironically, it was only because of this shocking conference call move that another AOL/Patch employee leaked audio of the all-hands meeting to Romenesko, generating one of the media blogger’s biggest traffic flows.
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