Anyone paying attention to the tech / media industry publications for the last few months knew this week was coming at AOL — but that doesn’t make 2,000 fewer coworkers any easier. There isn’t really a lot for me to say here, except that I’m grateful today’s layoffs haven’t really had much direct effect on Engadget. There’s no doubt I’ll be sorry to see some colleagues and coworkers on the AOL side go, though. It can be a strange company, this one; now we’ll see if the payoff is worth the heartache. Maybe it’s just me, but somehow I doubt it will be.