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98-99? I was 92-93, myself. :)

Yeah, I was kinda bummed out when they dumped me, but honestly, it was my own dammed fault. I didn't exactly know how to behave back then, and got caught doing a few things I probably shouldn't have been. :(

It was one of the best jobs I had had, up to that point. I did start getting a bit burned out at the end though.

I worked the Help Desk, at first, mostly answering questions from people who had connection troubles or problems with our software (we still had the old DOS based stuff around, and WAOL 2.5 (I think) was just coming into use. Lotta trouble with that. :(

Then I moved on to being a Guide. I loved that part. Probably my favorite position. :)

Then I moved to the TOS Squad. That was probably the one I liked least. Got really tired of handling irate "businessmen" angry at why their e-mail didn't work all of a sudden because their accounts got locked, and explaining to them that they had to contact billing to fix this because of the actions of one of their teenagers doing inappropriate shit on the family account. Really tiresome/aggravating, really quick, that one became. :(

Then I got "busted" .... and that was all she wrote.

But, on a side note, and completely unrelated, my next job was even better. :) As a programmer with Id software on the earlier versions of Doom. :) (Thought about doing an IamA/AMA on that, but under the current circumstances, probably not).

Did they still offer stock options as part of the pay package/incentives when you were there? They did for me, and that is one of the few regrets I have, that I did not keep those, but cashed them in. This was before the merger with Time Warner, and what with the splits and all, I would have done very well indeed, had I taken the shares. /sigh. Win some/lose some, ya know?

When did you "work" there?

Reason I ask is because I actually worked there as a regular paid employee, back in the early '90s when they were still HQ'ed in Vienna, VA (and right before or just when they became a household name).

Did you like it otherwise? I did. Had a blast, for the most part, right up till I got fired/quit, anyhow ......

Cuntmuffin? Now there is a cool name for a band. Maybe I will name my next one that ...... :D

The hacker problem? Yep. that was a big one, and I was kind of a part of the "solution" (sorta what got me into trouble, too. /grin). Big problem with kiddy porn as well, and I was part of what happened about all that shit too. Sent a couple of those jerkwads up the river to spend some vacation time, courtesy of the feds. Better than they deserved, IMHO.

Club House? I don't specifically remember anything by that exact name, but I do remember them having places basically for employees only to hang out and "recreate" on their off hours.

Oh, yeh. I forgot. You were a "volunteer". My bad. You did at least get a free account, right?

Thanks for calling me awesome, I guess. I really did take that part seriously, and sincerely tried to be helpful and friendly. Not everybody was like that, though. :(

Ummm, more or less for accessing computers that I should not have been, and I would like to leave it there.

At that time, it was not a criminal matter, as there were no laws covering that, So I never got into trouble with the law, just AOL.