Anyone employee who has first hand knowledge of the time before and during her time at HP.
At any rate, believe what you want. At least Carly ‘does her own laundry’. That’ll rally the troops!
The employees didn’t like her because she got rid of some seriously dead wood and made the corporate environment competitive. I worked in Santa Rosa, had occasion to work as a contractor at the HP offices, and knew a lot of the employees - they had such a “caring” culture that non-performers were never fired, employees loved the company but didn’t take their jobs seriously, and there was, I think, pressure against excelling because it made you stand out in the crowd and made them look bad.
Fiorina was widely described as a b**** because she did exactly what Walker and Snyder did on a government level: they broke up an entrenched, protected culture of expensive mediocrity and redundancy. This happens in corporations, too, and it’s never fun when somebody comes along and shakes it up.
Of course, being a woman, she’s described as a b****, while Walker and Snyder are described as hard-nosed managers. Well, it’s true, sometimes they’re called right-wing fanatics, but then, so is Fiorina.
Maybe what we actually need, however, is a b****.