AOL will close its call centers in Albuquerque, N.M., and Tucson, AZ, and sell its Ogden, UT call center. The online provider will also fire 1,400 call center employees.

These AOL call facilities contained hundreds of people trained to trick you into not cancelling your AOL account.

The centers will close in mid-December, just in time for Christmas.

Which means we only have sixty or so days before one-thousand, four-hundred, soulless, job-hungry, zombies are unleashed upon an unsuspecting American public.

AOL to lay off 1,400 call center workers [Cnet] (Thanks to Vincent!)

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