AOL’s Awesome Weekly Drinking Binge

Nah. This is why Arrington got hired in the first place.<p>Notice there was little criticism of the AOL Way on Techcrunch. That sort of thing gets you fired. This just drives pageviews, lets Arrington act the bad boy, and actually make AOL look like a laidback company with typical HR rules.

Come on didn't you laugh while you read that piece? Don't you think the people at AOL have a sense of humor? I hope so. What would be really cool is if TechCrunch really opened up on AOL on something substantial, not the fact that they drink.

I believe he is. There's a chance he has a clause in his contract that gives him him a payout in the event that he gets let go without cause (and firing him for being an annoying reporter probably isn't just cause). Remember, this is the same guy who moved to Seattle right before being acquired (Seattle being a state where he can avoid state taxation on his income).<p>In any even, it's in Ms. Huffington's hands now.

The fact that Arianna Huffington is Arrington's boss is a source of endless mirth to me.

The same way how he constantly publicly proclaims on TC that he doesn't know why he still pays Paul Carr to write for their site.... and then continues to pay Paul Carr to write for their site.<p>It's called trolling for pageviews.