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The Culture of Evasion
theodp writes "In the wake of Patricia Dunn's resignation, Wired's Fred Vogelstein walked away less than impressed with HP CEO's Mark Hurd's spying mea culpa. He says it smacked more of standard corporate ass covering than leadership, especially coming 3 weeks after the scandal broke. His sentiments are echoed in Computerworld's Culture of Evasion, which was written before Hurd mounted an I-knew-nothing-defense. Hurd claims that he bailed out on a meeting that approved the spying, neglected to read the spying report directed to him, and was clueless about the tracer technology employed in the reporter-baiting false e-mail he personally gave thumbs-up to."
Woohoo! Yet another Republican trying to defend his honor by raping it anally with the Democrats' history. "Look, the Democrats did this, and we want to be just like the Democrats, so we should do it too!" Is it any wonder why your christian voting base is jumping ship and looking for a new Ark?
If you wanted more of what the Democrats had to offer, you should have joined that party instead. Now get the hell out of here and quit fagging up what used to be a really good party before it got taken over by people who are spending billions of my hard-earned dollars to make gay arab porn.
Being a new HP employee I better submit as AC this time.
After doing all the ethics and responsibility and business conducts readings that are required as a new HP employee I realize that what Patricia Dunn did was against all these, and so correctly she resigned after probably consulting her colleagues and lawyers/etc.
I think HP will sort it out and let everyone go that did anything wrong. I also think that HP was doing good by trying to filter the bad people who was leaking sensitive information. In fact I think if the US has a right to spy on its citisens to protect them any company should have the right to investigate on an unright person who leaks data.
Do you take a piss test in your company? Do you pass a metal detector in your school? Don't you theink the NSA is reading your BBS/mails and reading your conversations? Don't you think that your company has the right to check phone records when they thing you are leaking confidential information? Your phone records can be accessed by crooked CS personnel anyway who barely make minimum wages and would sell their mothers for 10 bucks, so what do you care if some millionaire CEO's are checking each other's phone records?
Anyway, I just had to let it go. I worked at several places before, and I can tell you this: I saw problems here and thee after just a few days, but at HP it just looks all OK. Strict on all the grey areas. You are told what you can expect and you know what you have to do, no BS at all. For all that, if they want my phone records I give it myself or piss in the little plastic glass so they can see that I am not calling reporters and not using illegal substances.
If anyone is upset about that, leave the company, leave the country, leave the planet.
I am more upset about security guards/border police at airports/borders looking thru my dirty socks and underwear looking for
for drugs and bombs than my company looking at who i call. U know what? I submit my browser history if they want to, and if anyone does not, that means that they were looking at something that is not allowed.
Hey but that is only my 2c, but so that I am not lobbying for my own CO, I have to be anonymous coward.
ps: yes the stocks are very unstable, and yes that makes me mad too, especially for the matter that it all happens in the use wheere your privacy is only an illusion for the last 15 years