The AOL customer service rep who tried so very hard to prevent Vincent Ferrai from cancelling his service has been fired.

AOL PR issued a statement:

“At AOL, we have zero-tolerance for customer care incidents like this – which is deeply regrettable and also absolutely inexcusable. The employee in question violated our customer service guidelines and practices, and everything that AOL believes to be important in customer care – chief among them being respect for the member, and swiftly honoring their requests. This matter was dealt with immediately and appropriately, and the employee cited here is no longer with the Company.”

Too bad AOL still sucks!

Here’s the recording, in case you were asleep or don’t read BoingBoing, Digg, Metafilter, Anandtech, or Fark. Some observers wondered how the story got posted to so many big sites, so fast. The answer is very simple: Vincent promoted it to all of them. For a while, until Putfile bailed him out, his site was down, having used up all its bandwidth. Internet, for the win.

There’s also an interview with Vincent. [Netscape News] (Thanks to Gari N. Corp!)

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