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Here's the latest executive to call Carly Fiorina's business record 'disastrous'
Fortune ^ | 9/26/15 | Stephen Gandel

Posted on 09/26/2015 6:30:24 PM PDT by jimbo123

Carly Fiorina may come from the executive suite, but that hasn’t stopped other executives from slamming her record.

The latest critique comes from Steven Rattner, a former Wall Street banker and private equity executive. Rattner, in an opinion piece in the New York Times on Saturday, called Fiorina’s time as the CEO of HP “short and disastrous.” Rattner said HP’s acquisition of Compaq, pushed through by Fiorina, caused an amount of divisiveness at the company that Rattner says he never saw in his 33-year career on Wall Street. He said that while Fiorina did serve during a tough period for tech stocks, HP’s shares did worse than rivals. And Rattner said Fiorina has correctly been named to a number of lists of worst executives of all time.

Rattner says it is perhaps unfair to criticize Fiorina for the 30,000 layoffs that happened at HP under her watch. Again, the tech sector was going through a tough time. But Rattner says voters should note that during the time of the layoffs, again a difficult time for tech and HP, Fiorina took home $100 million in compensation, and she pushed for HP to acquire five private jets.

Rattner says less attention has been paid to Fiorina’s time at Lucent, the job she had before going to HP. Fiorina was never the boss at Lucent, but Rattner says she oversaw the use of a number of aggressive sales tactics to boost revenue. Rattner says shortly after Fiorina left Lucent, the company “veered off a cliff.”

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Fiorina was never the boss at Lucent, but Rattner says she oversaw the use of a number of aggressive sales tactics to boost revenue. Rattner says shortly after Fiorina left Lucent, the company “veered off a cliff.”
1 posted on 09/26/2015 6:30:24 PM PDT by jimbo123
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2 posted on 09/26/2015 6:39:43 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Fiorina opposition research report

Here is the 218-page opposition research report on Carly Fiorina compiled by political research firm Gragert Jones for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in April 2010.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/280494704/Fiorina-opposition-research-report


3 posted on 09/26/2015 6:40:00 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Avoid this horseface at all cost. A parasite that sucks dry her host.


4 posted on 09/26/2015 6:51:41 PM PDT by sagar
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Secretariat has a horse face. (What was she thinking choosing that name?l


5 posted on 09/26/2015 6:57:28 PM PDT by hoosiermama (If Obama canÂ’t convince Americans heÂ’s not a moslem then it certainly isnÂ’t TrumpÂ’s job to do s)
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6 posted on 09/26/2015 7:09:51 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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{Avoid this horseface at all cost}

You have no business calling this woman a “horseface.”

Horses are beautiful. :)


7 posted on 09/26/2015 7:13:11 PM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner Down! Lots more to go....)
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I stated a fact
She chose the name
Poor horse


8 posted on 09/26/2015 7:21:14 PM PDT by hoosiermama (If Obama canÂ’t convince Americans heÂ’s not a moslem then it certainly isnÂ’t TrumpÂ’s job to do s)
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9 posted on 09/26/2015 7:38:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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Rattner says less attention has been paid to Fiorina’s time at Lucent, the job she had before going to HP. Fiorina was never the boss at Lucent, but Rattner says she oversaw the use of a number of aggressive sales tactics to boost revenue. Rattner says shortly after Fiorina left Lucent, the company “veered off a cliff.”

The problems for Shrillary Fiorina started after she demanded one of the foremost research and development labs in the country (and in the history of our country...) figure out ways to monetize their inventions, otherwise there was no point in her mind to their existance.

Bell Labs went off the rails because they lost so much of their highly talented and skill research and development folks during Shrillary Fiorina's time at Bell Labs.

Fast forward to Shrillary Fiorina's time at HP and she literally did the exact same thing that ruined Bell Labs: She attempted to take HP's Enterprise business (high end Unix Servers, Storage, etc..) which were HIGHLY profitable for HP (I know, I was one of HP's major customers in the Chicago area)and tried transforming HP into a consumer products company.

DUMB, DUMB, DUMB!

The Compaq acquisition was an unmitigated disaster, cost more than 30,000 people to lose their jobs, which Shrillary Fiorina then outsourced to India, all the while getting her big fat MILLIONS of dollars in pay while destroying other people's lives and one of this country's great companies.

Shrillary Fiorina killed Bell Labs. She DAMN NEAR killed HP, which to a large degree is still reeling from the damage of the past.

10 posted on 09/26/2015 7:46:00 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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I thought all you a-holes on this thread hated FR. Stick around, you might learn a few things.


11 posted on 09/26/2015 7:47:36 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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She’s finished.


12 posted on 09/26/2015 8:16:53 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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Anyone who is still a Carly Fiorina fan for President, is either a moron or is a moron, as this pro Islamic, Common Core, man hating, Bushbot has revealed exactly what she is, a Jeb Bush intelligence stooge to please angry women and keep support away from Donald Trump.

Now comes this story from the Daily Beast in what kind of person Carly Fiorina really is to her employees and staff........no not the Hewlett Packard employees and staff she fired, but her California 2010 staff and employees she screwed over.

Over the next four years, the Carly for California campaign pushed its debts back month after month after month, year after year. As Fiorina and her husband relocated to a multimillion-dollar Virginia estate and campaign treasurers came and went, - the vendors and staff remained unpaid, - including the widow of a close adviser who had died suddenly during her Senate bid.

Only as Fiorina began to publicly consider launching a presidential campaign in 2015 did she pay off her 2010 debts, quietly writing a personal check for $487,410 to finally pay the outstanding bills and close the Carly for California campaign.

Three months later, Carly for President launched, quickly raising $1.4 million for Fiorina’s presidential bid. But unlike Carly for California, the new campaign is making do without her personal fortune. So far, she and her husband, Frank, have given $2,700 each, the maximum allowed for any average donor.

These people would still not be paid, if it had not been for Fiorina running for President. - Yes like all the richtards stealing from this blog, sitting in mansions, there was Carly Fiorina as an intelligence asset, moving to posh Virginia, while people who believed in her could not pay the bills.

Yes nothing like screwing over the widow of someone who was your close adviser, as what is she going to do with money any way, now that her husband is dead and not earning a living.

I will state this again, Carly Fiorina like Ben Carson, are two left wing strawpoles set up to dilute the election, as they gnaw on Donald Trump for Jeb Bush, to look innocent, - and once that is done, Bush will light a match to these two moles - and steal another election.

None of this is making it on Drudge either. What comes next in this, 10 million dollar man Ben Carson, not paying his Latino maids, because his dog needs a million dollar manicure?

The picture say it all, Carly Fiorina cuddling with globalist Henry Kissinger and having the best time ever with the Jesse Jackson who used to spit in white people’s soup for a political statement.


13 posted on 09/27/2015 2:33:39 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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Didn’t Rattner join the Obama Administration?


14 posted on 09/27/2015 4:40:35 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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