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An Engineer's View of Carly Fiorina's Leadership
prostoalex writes "There is a pretty damning look at Carly Fiorina's leadership while at HP on TechnologyReview.com. The author was working for HP Labs, the center of invention and innovation for the company, only to be told that nothing exciting will happen in the tech market since it's a mature industry. He left the company in 2003. "The lab was never packed with genius marketers. Carly told us we had no business sense, and that every project needed to make a profit within three years or less. She usually said that right before the research budget got slashed again and more lab employees were laid off."" Update: 03/19 03:13 GMT by Z : As detailed on the TechnologyReview page, they have retracted the story on the grounds that they can no longer vouch for it.
I'd love to smack that hot face with my hard cock a couple times... anybody else here agree with me?
all rich people sleep thier way to top ...
in fact usually, they just fuck everybody
evil incompetent assholes all of em
Who will be next, to take the hopes and dreams of their employees and investors down with them?
- The Valley is a Harsh Mistress
It's at GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks.I mentioned two companies that were still alive, but on the ropes at the time I wrote the essay - Be, Inc. and Working Software. Now both are gone, with not even a domain name to mark their graves anymore.
Request your free CD of my piano music.
They belong in the kitchen and the bedroom.
They have no business running companies, particularly storied companies like HP and Compaq.
Women are only good for cooking, cleaning and fucking.
Bitch, Fucktard, Cunt, A-hole, Scum Sucking Piglet. ....
You've got to hand it to Carly. This was a clear case of playing the "affirmative action" (or whatever you want to call it) card of giving a clearly unqualified person a shot at a tough job. She played the "old boy" corporate game well and was branded a marketing genius, a tough bitch, and a pioneer. Well, here we are at the end of the ride and it turns out she was just unqualified for the job and just plain wrong on the direction to take the company. She got lots of press, invited to lots of A-list gigs, got paid a FORTUNE and almost ran one of America's most successful companies right into the ground.
Meanwhile, the stock is in the toilet, lots of people lost their jobs, the company is losing market share in its core business (printing and imaging) and foundering in the PC business it adopted from Compaq. If Carly had been a man, she would have gotten sacked after the first 18 months.
Thank god it's over. Let's hope HP can recover.
Cheers,
C'mon, link whoring at slashdot isn't spamming. Everybody does it. It's even respectable.
My plan is to place a new kuro5hin text ad each day this month, and over the next couple weeks to get all my articles into Bonita's new XHTML/CSS design. I'm working on The Valley is a Harsh Mistress as I write this.
If I can somehow manage to draw more revenue from my website than I spend from advertising, I'll be reinvesting the proceeds back into promoting GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks, and later, once I get my first book review posted, Recommended Reading.
It's all part of my secret plan to get out of programming altogether and go to music school.
Care to download my MP3s?
Those recordings are ten years old though. I've come a long way since then. It's just a matter of getting the money for the equipment, and the time, to record my latest work, but I expect there will be new music there by the end of summer.
Request your free CD of my piano music.
Request your free CD of my piano music.
You can attempt to justify how good she was all you want. The fact is that since Carly has taken over HP, they have no engineering left. Their support centers are in India- Bangalore to be exact.
.50 cents/hour bitches know a fucking thing about computers.
HP has attempted to go from a printer company to a server company. They failed. The only support you can hope to have within 1-2 days time for critical servers are the 4 hour onsite 24/7 contracts. And yes, that typically take 2 days to resolve.
If you don't have this contracts, HP hardware is absolutely worthless. You will be waiting months to fix your servers. An Indian with a broken British accent, will guide you through 30 steps and then misdiagnose it because none of these tier 1
Every tech, SysAdmin, network engineer, and server monkey that has spoken of her has done so with a big shit-eating grin on their face since she was outsourced.
You find me somebody that thinks she had a purpose other than destruction, and I'll find you and ignorant tech illeterate fuckstain. Have a nice day.
Troll goes on some tangent and tells anyone who disagrees with him they need to get a life and mods give him +2 Interesting? WTF