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AOL Closes New Mexico Offices

This shouldn’t have really been a surprise after AOL said they are going to a free service model.

AOL announced Wednesday it will lay off 1,300 employees by closing call centers in New Mexico and Arizona as part of a previously announced restructuring plan. AOL, the Time Warner Inc. online unit formerly known as America Online, also plans to sell its call center in Ogden, Utah. The cuts include 900 layoffs at the Albuquerque call center and 400 jobs at the center in Tucson, Ariz., AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said. The Arizona and New Mexico call centers each have operated for 10 years.

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Summer 2005 Classes Are Done

This last quarter’s classes turned out to be more difficult than expected. I signed up for a MS Access class and a Business Stats class. I won’t say much more about the Access class. I already had experience with it so it was a easy A.

I was looking forward to the stats class, since I use it all the time in my work. Unfortunately we were plagued by a new teacher and a new book. The first two chapters of homework were taking students 8 hours (!) to complete, this after being in class for 4 hours. That’s just too much for people who also have real jobs. She cut it down quite a bit after that, but just illustrates how out of sync the teacher was with our needs.

I managed a B in the class, but not without a lot of help from my classmates. If I hadn’t been able to complete the homework I wouldn’t have ever passed. Yet, I still didn’t come out of the class with a good understanding of the subjects.

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Local Dumbass Gets Arrested

Thankfully these kinds of dumb-asses make law enforcements jobs easier.

Police arrest a man who threatened a Hooters manager and you won’t believe how police caught up with him. Police says 23-year old Gregory Lock, along with three other people, refused to pay their bill at the Hooters on San Mateo. Police say when the manager told Lock and his friends they couldn’t come back, Lock grabbed his gun and waved it at the manager, then took off. The very next call, APD responded to was a domestic disturbance at an apartment complex on Pan American Northeast. The same officer who was called to Hooters responded and ran into Lock. When Lock saw the officer, he ran up to him and said, “I didn’t have anything to do with that bill skip at hooters”. Lock is charged with aggravated assault.