Carly Fiorina Outsourcing

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/03/carly-fiorina-run-for-president-hewlett-packard


As CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers. Fiorina shipped jobs to China. And while Californians lost their jobs, Fiorina tripled her salary, bought a million-dollar yacht and five corporate jets

[djean111]

1. She laid waste to Hewlett Packard.

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2. She has been picked as one of the worst CEOs of all time.

I think she is running to get on the crazy conservative gravy train.

[djean111]

3. Here is what I posted in another thread this morning - she made working at HP worse than most

can imagine -

She is a salesperson who got ahead by playing the gender card. I am a woman, and was very close to people who worked at Hewlett Packard. I worked with HP folks, since I was a system manager for some HP/3000s, and got engaged to my HP consultant . Fiorina was horrible. Folks lost jobs, HP lost good will and market share, the stock went into free fall. The consultants were turned into salesmen, and were expected to lie about products - yes, this equipment will be great for the next four years! And then made to meet the quota determined by matching a huge sale, premised on how that sale would save money - the very next year. Lost customer trust. Couldn't get a benchmark test for a huge proposal to switch from Tandems to HP/3000s - the consultants basically said here is a shiny brochure! Just trust us!

Actually - reminds me of the TPP - this computer is better! It will fix everything for years! No need to try it out first! Ooops!

Anyway, anger aside, any time anyone tries to get my support for someone because they are a woman, because they are the first woman - oh no, no you don't. Fiorina made that first indelible impression. People lost jobs, people lost retirements, people lost the value of the stock they had been investing in for the future. Women can fuck things up just as well as men can.

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4. @ one time HP was Apple before Apple became Apple

HP had some really good engineers and scientists working to develope
new products and applications for HP products but Carly either fired them
or they got the hell out of dodge.

[djean111]

5. Well, Tandem was an HP idea, but the engineers were told they could take their multi-CPU idea

and start their own company - by Hewlett and Packard, actually. And so they did. (I did love those Tandem Non-Stop mid-range computers).
Wozniak and Jobs worked for Bill and Dave, by the way, not Fiorina.

Fiorina was a salesperson in an engineer's job. And that is exactly the way to define her quest for being President.