Posted on 09/10/2006 3:08:58 PM PDT by HAL9000
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2006--The HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) board of directors met for several hours Sunday morning. It has agreed to reconvene late Monday afternoon. No further statement will be forthcoming from the company before that time.
doesn't mean much without a little context
Their CEO is under fire for spying on the board.
Try clicking your mouse on a keyword.
I couldn't help but notice that Ms. Dunn is one tough looking lady.
Stick a fork in her, she's Dunn.
HP just hasn't been the same since that woman took the helm. And the board replaced her with Dunn??
The whole damn board needs to be fired, and get some people in their that actually know what HP used to do.
Otherwise...
R.I.P. HP
Holy smoke - I missed this one. I'd love to know how she got the idea she was empowered to "authorize" spying on the other board members' private phone conversations. I'm thinking the state Attorney General might be curious as well.
Those in charge must be Dems. Again picking someone who looks the part rather than choosing someone who can actually do the job.
Yeah, I love how hiring CEOs works: Fiorina destroys Lucent and then gets hired to start the process on HP--then they bring in Dunn to finish the job. I have no experiece, but I think I could do a better job than either of those clowns (at least I wouldn't be caught spying, anyway.)
That's not much of a statement. Well, in these days of spin, I guess even a non-statement should be construted as a statement!!
I have read this post. No further comments from me will be forthcoming at this time.
Dilbert even made fun of Lucent by having Dogbert hired as a consultant and getting paid an astronomical amount to come up with a logo that was actually a stain from the bottom of a coffee cup. I also noticed that you couldn't watch a show without seeing dozens of Lucent commercials, and none of the commercials told you what the company did. I still don't know what Lucent was supposed to produce. She ran it straight into the ground, but the press loved her, and she got to do the same thing with HP. BTW, HP used to make great printers, but they suck, now.
HP is simply carrying-on the Bob Palmer/DEC tradition. Screw tour employees, sell the company, laugh, make a fortune, move on. A friend of mine has hundreds of pages of DEC memos as the company was imploding. Very interesting reading.
Don't you love those commercials? Other companies thought they were innovative and did the same, make commercials that give no clue as to what the company does.
You knew HP was on the downhill slide when they acquired Compaq.
I have the impression that their inexpensive computers are built with precisely that philosophy. Hey, it looks like a computer...
Mahalo
Spying on quite a few people, actually. The board, industry journalists, their friends and associates, etc.
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