Ouch! CarlyFiorina.org shows her layoffs at HP

CNN Money ^ | 05/04/2015

[SeekAndFind]

If you're going to run for president, buy every website domain with your name.

On Monday morning, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced she's running for U.S. president. But if you head to CarlyFiorina.org, you'll find a message that criticizes her for firing tens of thousands of workers at HP (HPCQ).

It shows 30,000 sad faces -- one for every employee that was laid off while Fiorina was chief executive from 1999 to 2005. The accusation that she outsourced so many American jobs is a major thorn in Fiorina's side -- and one reason she lost her bid for U.S. Senate in 2010.

No one hijacked the site. It's not a hack. Fiorina's campaign team just didn't buy it soon enough.

This is a standard, dopey mistake politicians make nowadays. And it'll inevitably mean that curious voters will end up seeing this anti-Fiorina message when they're actually trying to find her real website, CarlyFiorina.com (which redirects to CarlyForPresident.com).

That's the thing about websites. No one remembers actual domain names. Most people just type in a candidate's name on Google and search for it. And they'll head to whatever pops up in the results

[TwelveOfTwenty]

She is a good attack dog against Hilary. Can say things men cant say.

I'll support her campaign for that reason alone.

[dp0622]

As long as we need her, and I read somewhere that this is understood in exchange for a job in next administration. But it’s just hearsay

[JimRed]

That could be a GOOD thing; maybe she would lay off about one third of the federal government in her first 100 days!

[stig]

HP was not chickenshit when she took control, but she sure made sure it was by the time she was gone... You can read case study after case study about how abysmal her tenure was, and there are 10s of thousands of technical folks who can tell you first hand just how badly she drove that company into the ground.

She increase the market cap of the company in the aftermath of the dotcom bubble. Now the person who took over in 2005 did a better job increasing the market cap and at a better rate. But the company took a turn for the worse in 2011 taking a diving back to a market cap that is no better than Carly's in 2005.

I'm no fan of Carly. But in hind sight her decisions did not put the company in that bad of a position or the market cap would not have doubled in 2 years after she left and remained above her levels for 5 years.

The real question is who has been running the company for the past 5? They have halved the market cap over 5 years.