HP's Dunn Stepping Down

XJHardware writes "Yahoo news is reporting that Patricia Dunn is stepping down from the chair of HP." From the article: "Hurd will retain his existing positions as chief executive and president and Dunn will remain as a director after she relinquishes the chair on Jan. 18. 'I am taking action to ensure that inappropriate investigative techniques will not be employed again. They have no place in HP,' Hurd said in a statement. Dunn apologized for the techniques used in the company's probe, which included 'pretexting' in which private investigators impersonated board members and journalists to acquire their phone records."

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Re:Head of Global Ops Too

[spun]

Well, every so often the hoi polloi catch a whiff of some scandal big enough that one of the Ascendancy must be sacrificed in order to maintain the illusion that they are generally "Good People" who "Work Hard" to "Make This Country a Better Place" and "Provide Jobs." Of course, they go to Rich Man's Prison. You and I would have to pay to get into a club that nice. But this isn't that big of a scandal. To be frank, most of us hoi polloi don't care if they are only fucking over each other.

HPQ stock soars on the news

[aevans]

Dunn, Fiorina. Wall Street is probably just sexist. Or maybe it's a fact that men manage companies better. Or maybe misguided thinking elevates inadequate people to positions they aren't qualified for merely for the sake of filling some quota of diversity.

Re:Why do 10% of the people own and control 90%...

[spun]

I don't have a self defeating thought process, you callous fuckwit. I'm an optimist, even after years of bad luck. What a hippy dippy, pie in the sky attitude. The reason you like to believe things like that is to keep your own inflated sense of self worth. If it's just luck, why, maybe you aren't the fucking hot shit you think you are. Or worse, maybe it's not luck, maybe you had unfair advantages that others didn't have. Do you really think everyone has the same opportunity? That every poor black boy from the projects can grow up to be a CEO if they just work hard enough? What a pathetic, self serving fantasy. Have fun in lala land, back here in the real world, things aren't quite that fair. Fortunately, some of us have a sense of justice, fairness, and empathy for our fellow man, and are working quite hard to make things a little more equitable.