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Old 11-04-2009, 11:01 AM
Steve Property Of HardOCP, 40.1 Years
 
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Former HP CEO Announces Bid for US Senate

I guess after being fired from your job as CEO and getting a massive $20 million severance package, the next logical step is to run for the U.S. Senate.

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Fiorina says her priorities would be creating jobs, cutting government spending and expanding access to health care — but not through a national health care system.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:02 AM
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I guess it's a good way to go since they have the best healthcare plan period.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:07 AM
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Well at least we'll have a tech savvy Senator. Lord knows we need them in Washington.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:15 AM
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Based on how she ran HP, I would expect her first move would be to propose massive cost cutting by offshoring major portions of our government to China and India.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:19 AM
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and suggest to congress to pass a bill that would tax internet usage to!
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:21 AM
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(*) says her/his priorities would be creating jobs, cutting government spending and expanding access to health care.

Fill in * with any politician's name. They all say the same sh!t.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:23 AM
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I worked under (way under) Carly at Lucent. Not a big fan, but I would like to -really- know where she stands on the major issues.

But that's no different than it would be with any politician. We won't know until it's too late.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:32 AM
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Another cookie-cutter just-like-everyone-else politician in the mix. The excitement is palpable.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:33 AM
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Fiona gets a bad rap, but she's definitely a brilliant person.

She was the sole person behind the HP/Compaq merger and since then HP has only gotten stronger.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:40 AM
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I worked for HP a few years before Carley was hired to run it. During my employment, HP was a wonderful company to work for. They offered tons of perks to average employees (on-site athletic center, free daycare, free soda and juice, company picnics, team building activities, etc.). I worked there while continuing my education and eventually left to peruse a career, but I had a couple of friends that continued to work there after I left. Carley literally took EVERYTHING away from the employees and quickly started outsourcing everything to Singapore. The location went from 5000+ employees to under 1500. HUGE buildings are literally vacant to this day...
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:43 AM
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Fiona gets a bad rap, but she's definitely a brilliant person.

She was the sole person behind the HP/Compaq merger and since then HP has only gotten stronger.
IMO, HP is stronger today because Fiorina is no longer helming the company.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:44 AM
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Fiona gets a bad rap, but she's definitely a brilliant person.

She was the sole person behind the HP/Compaq merger and since then HP has only gotten stronger.


What reality do you live in? Carly drove the company into the ground. Hurd was brought in to turn things around after they kicked her ass to the curb.

She'll fit right in with the rest of the politicos though.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:44 AM
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Hp only got stronger because they took CPQ's strong server line and dropped theirs (which if anyone worked on an hp server pre merger knows what I mean those things were washing machines..). CPQ had a non existent desktop and laptop market...but none of that really matters. A senator does not run the government. She is a name that they can use to get Boxer out. As far as tech savvy - Boxer is co sponser of the Jumpstart Broadband Act to make more specturm available to devices that incorporate broadband technology and opposes the internet sales tax. Should be an interesting race,
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:46 AM
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Fiorina says her priorities would be creating jobs
Definition of Irony

Claim you are about "creating jobs" when under your former job you outsourced your ex company leading to thousands of lay offs.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:46 AM
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Whatever Fiona's faults at least she is not a certified moron like Barbara Boxer.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:50 AM
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I understand she's a polarizing figure, but you cannot deny her strategic vision and skill.

Hell, she proposed the EDS acquisition in 2001, one they ended up making in 2008 under Hurd's tensure.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:57 AM
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Definition of Irony

Claim you are about "creating jobs" when under your former job you outsourced your ex company leading to thousands of lay offs.
Spot on!
Well, she doesn't say "create jobs for AMERICANS in AMERICA".
So in essence she is telling the "truth" about what she wants to do. She wants to create jobs for people outside of USA.
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Old 11-04-2009, 12:13 PM
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I'm a current HP employee. Carly is referred internally by the rank and file as SWMNBN, or She Who Must Not Be Named. I seriously doubt she'll get any HP employee votes.
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Old 11-04-2009, 12:32 PM
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I worked for HP a few years before Carley was hired to run it. During my employment, HP was a wonderful company to work for. They offered tons of perks to average employees (on-site athletic center, free daycare, free soda and juice, company picnics, team building activities, etc.). I worked there while continuing my education and eventually left to peruse a career, but I had a couple of friends that continued to work there after I left. Carley literally took EVERYTHING away from the employees and quickly started outsourcing everything to Singapore. The location went from 5000+ employees to under 1500. HUGE buildings are literally vacant to this day...
Sounds like a typical micro-managing bean counter whose only concerns are petty chickenshit rules for the sake of rules, and the bottom line. Employees don't matter one damn bit. In fact people like her would probably be happiest if they could replace everyone but senior management with robots so they don't have to deal with actual human beings, and their (inconvenient) needs and desires.

When I read that McCain had appointed her an adviser, which meant she would probably be in his cabinet, I was absolutely determined to not vote for him (and her) under any circumstances. I despise the woman.
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Old 11-04-2009, 01:01 PM
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She's a criminal. How on earth can she expect to be elected to a Senate seat? Arrogance tells us that some people imagine money can buy you anything.
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