Posted on 02/09/2005 12:09:21 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Now she will have more time to spend fixing California.. seeing as she did such a bang-up job and had 'her way' at HP.
Well, amazing how things turn out!
Now if we can get the Shareholders at CNN disturbed, we could see some good things happen there.
I've seen some of this craziness up close and personal, and I have to ask if the biggest corporate troublemakers aren't liberals who refuse to place reality over their desire to see the world as they want it. In my own experience, it has been liberal dems who elevated their personal whims way above the dictates of common business sense.
Someone we know who works there said it was like working for a rock star because she was never actually there and there was no sense that she was even involved with the company. She was always busy traveling around giving speeches.
The only reason for buying Compaq should have been to move HP's PC division out of California to Houston. There's no way HP can compete in the low margin PC business by operating in California. Housing prices are much more reasonable in Houston.
The Peter principle.
When I saw Spock whip out his tricorder, I assumed it carried the H-P logo.
Now they're just another PC company, as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure Carly thinks she did a great job and was treated unfairly by mean nasty men.
Maybe Walmart will buy them.
(steely)
Dvorak bump.
Funny thing, I've been saying for the past several years that I wished Carly Fiorina could be forced to spend 30 days trying to run a small business using H-P pile of c*** printers. Dell is one smart company.
Compaq - HP's greatest mistake.
A subject dear to my heart. Have you ever noticed that the people LEAST effective in managing others always seem to go to the top? They are inevitably the ones who rant and rave and get great SHORT TERM results, but are miserable for the long haul. They ride into a company like a gunslinger, shake things ups and leave a mess behind when they ride out, much richer for themselves only, of course. It hasn't changed one bit since I entered the business world many years ago.
HP used to be too. I worked for them when Bill and Dave were still there and cooked burgers and the company picnics. It sure has changed.
Carly Fiorina addresses a plenary session during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in January in Davos, Switzerland. Fiorina has stepped down as chairman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/10855541.htm
Fiorina steps down as Hewlett-Packard CEO
STRATEGIC DIFFERENCES WITH BOARD CITED
By Vindu Goel
Mercury News
(EXCERPT)
Hewlett-Packard announced early Wednesday that Carly Fiorina has stepped down as chairman and chief executive after nearly six years at the helm of the Palo Alto computer giant.
In a statement, Fiorina suggested that her departure wasn't voluntary: ``While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision,'' she said. ``HP is a great company and I wish all the people of HP much success in the future.''
HP's board said that Chief Financial Officer Bob Wayman, will become acting CEO while the Palo Alto company searches for a successor. Board member Patricia Dunn will become non-executive chairman.
Wall Street cheered the news, with HP's stock up more than 10 percent in early trading.
I don't know about that. Dell doesn't wait. I ordered a new computer at 11 Monday night and it was at my door by seven on Thursday night.
she could care less. she has walked off with bags of money, and that's the goal. the "me generation" has risen into the ranks of corporate leadership in the US, they are looting these once great american companies and filling their own pockets.
I owned an overpriced HP printer that never worked reliably despite being replaced twice by HP. I swore I would never own another ever.
Got a Brother multi function printer that works flawlessly and is, by comparison, fairly good with stretching the ink.
I have had HP printers for years, currently own an Office Jet (g85). Never had a problem with any of them.
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