TimeWarner to Adelphia employees: You can keep your jobs.....for now

TimeWarner is not only a line for bad news, there are some good news lines some where in there as well. Hundreds of Adelphia employees witnessed that last week when they were told they can keep their jobs. They all then chipped in and sent a box of cigars to Glenn Britt instead of the "Fuck U" t-shirt they originally wanted to send. Another large group of Adelphia employees in Coudersport have been notified that they'll be able to keep their jobs once Time Warner Cable takes over the local facilities this summer. About 200 employees in a set of modular offices along Vine Street, known as the Sales & Marketing Advanced Retention Team - or SMART - received the good news last week.Time Warner previously agreed to hire another large Adelphia employee group, the Advanced Products Customer Center - formerly the Tennis Center - and is making job offers to other Adelphia employees scattered across the company's Coudersport worksites. Poor bastards were probably getting ready to cancel their summer vacation plans. read...