HP may farm out Fiorina's job duties, says report

IT World ^ | today | Laura Rhode

[Rodney King]

There has never been a more useless fraud in Corporate America than Fiorina.

[Rodney King]

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Please let HP keep her. Otherwise, she'll end up in the Bush administration.

[Semper Paratus]

Maybe a deserving CEO in Bangalore can do her job for pennies?

[CasearianDaoist]

Boy, you are right about that. I once had HP Research as a client. They had great engineering back then. Watch her turn HP into another DEC.

[CasearianDaoist]

Could not agree more.

[Clemenza]

Carly "I'm not Edie Falco" Fiorina getting her duties "outsourced?" Couldn't of happened to a nicer person.

Taking the power in the tech companies from the Engineers and giving it to the "marketers" has been a big mistake.

[Rodney King]

Carly "I'm not Edie Falco" Fiorina getting her duties "outsourced?" Couldn't of happened to a nicer person.

Well, it's not like she is getting a pay cut. It sounds to me like the board doesn't want to fire her solely so that they don't have to admit the mistake of having hired her in the first place.

[roylene]

You are so correct..she took a viable stable company and turned it to an ordinary second class company. If she had been a man she would have been fired the first year.

[Rodney King]

If she had been a man she would have been fired the first year.

Well, If she were a man, she never would have been hired in the first place.

[Clemenza]

Carly is all about ego. This is still going to hurt.

[Clemenza]

Well, If she were a man, she never would have been hired in the first place.

Affirmative action in action.

[TXBSAFH]

No lie there.

[July 4th]

The HP iPod. There was a winner...

[henderson field]

Farm out Fiorina's job duties?
Why stop there?
Why not outsource them to India?
Think of the money they could save!

[kennyo]

Tell it to Lawrence H. Summers...

[ClearCase_guy]

Recent news reports out of Harvard University, by way of MIT, is that Carly Fiorina lacks the innate abilities to be CEO of a top technology company.

[henderson field]

This reminds me of the Mary Cunningham and Bill Agee fiasco in Detroit many years ago.
Not one but two highly unqualified people.
They both belonged in government jobs.

[GaltMeister]

It is really sad what HP has become.

From a technological and engineering innovator to a toy manufacturer (Home PC's) in just a few short years.

[Dat Mon]

"Taking the power in the tech companies from the Engineers and giving it to the "marketers" has been a big mistake."

AMEN. AT&T, with its research arm Bell Labs, is responsible for everything electronic that we take for granted. Carly had her way with Lucent too. Now look at Bell Labs.

The two premier engineering companies in the world at one time were IMO General Electric and HP, plus a slew of other greats like Tektronix. Now GE is run by a financial services guy, and HP is run by...you know who.

The problem is compounded by Wall Street micromanaging the resulting mess. Wall St is not a good judge of a technical company's inherent worth IMO. Consider the case of SCO stock activity recently.