Now I know who Carly Fiorina reminds me of!

[backscatter712]

Leona Helmsley!




Next, Carly will be quoted as saying that only little people pay taxes!

[Richard D]

1. For me . . .

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. She reminds me of

[BrklynLiberal]

3. HP didn't care for her too much. They tossed her out on her butt...

wikipedia:

In early January 2005, the Hewlett-Packard board of directors discussed with Fiorina a list of issues that the board had regarding the company's performance.<36> The board proposed a plan to shift her authority to HP division heads, which Fiorina resisted.<37> A week after the meeting, the confidential plan was leaked to the Wall Street Journal.<38> Less than a month later, the board brought back in Tom Perkins and forced Fiorina to resign as chairman and chief executive officer of the company.<39> The company's stock jumped on news of Fiorina's departure.<40> Under the company's agreement with Fiorina, which was characterized as a golden parachute by some, she was paid slightly more than twenty million dollars in severance.<41> When Fiorina became CEO in July, 1999, HP's stock price was $52 per share, and when she left 5 1/2 years later in February, 2005, it was $21 per share—a loss of over 60% of the stock's value.<42> During this same time period, HP competitor Dell's stock price increased from $37 to $40 per share.<43><44>

Fiorina was succeeded, on an interim basis, by Patty Dunn as chairman, and then-CFO Robert Wayman as acting chief executive. Before her departure, Fiorina had launched an intensive hunt for board room leaks, and one of the leakers later turned out to be George A. Keyworth, II. Dunn continued to investigate along these lines to determine which board member(s) had been leaking information to the media. The methods used by Dunn led to the HP spying scandal and she was soon succeeded by Mark Hurd.<45><46>

Outside judgments on Fiorina's tenure at HP are mixed. In 2008, Infoworld grouped her with a list of products and ideas as flops, declaring her to be the "anti-Steve Jobs" for reversing the goodwill of American engineers and for alienating existing customers.<47> In 2008, Loren Steffy of the New York Times suggested that the EDS acquisition well after Fiorina's tenure was evidence that her actions as CEO were justified.<23> In April 2009, the business magazine web site Condé Nast Portfolio listed Fiorina as one of "The 20 Worst American CEOs of All Time", characterizing the HP-Compaq merger as a widely regarded failure, and citing the halving of HP's stock value under Fiorina's tenure

and with THAT puss, she had alot of nerve even bringing up the subject of Barbara Boxer's looks.

Sen Boxer is one of the classiest women in DC. Fiorina, it would seem, will never even come close to attaining that title.
Gawd..I hope Sen Boxer prevails..devastatingly!!!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/fiorinas-hairy-moment/

[DJ13]

4. ..........

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Yessssssssssssss sssssssss

[backscatter712]

13. Are you alluding to how HP employees (including myself) reacted to Carly's firing?

They were literally singing "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" and dancing in the aisles, eating Hostess Ding Dongs!

[DJ13]

14. That must have been a good time!

:rofl:

[MurrayDelph]

15. That goes for a lot

of ex-DECcies as well (including those of us that Bob Palmer had screwed over)

[northernlights]

24. another ex-Deccie here

screwed over by Palmer...and then screwed over by HP when a former colleague (still at HP) and his wife (a vp at Fidelity) got my identity stolen, complete with ssn, old addie and phone number from the laptop stolen from his wife's rental car while parked in HP's parking lot, and my current addie, phone, work and education history courtesy of the resume he requested from me for bogus free-lance work. :grr: :grr: :grr:

My undertanding is that corruption reigned supreme under Carly....

[librechik]

5. stop, I'm blinded by the stylishness of her up-to-date hairstyle

[AndyA]

6. Except Leona Helmsley was a shrewd business woman. She actually MADE money

instead of losing it.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. That's the truth!!!

see my post above...

[backscatter712]

9. Carly sailed away from HP on that $45M golden parachute... n/t

[rocktivity]

10. So California, are you prepared to move from an actor to a bad CEO?

x(
rocktivity

[backscatter712]

11. Don't underestimate the power of stupid in California!

They elected not just one, but two bad actors who became bad governors.

[Stephanie]

27. Orly Taitz got 375,000 votes! nt

[asjr]

12. She should have refrained from speaking

about someone else's hairstyle while wearing that dress!

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. She had such a cruel smile in the open mic video. Dems should make a campaign ad from that video

Now I know why the HP employees hated her

[backscatter712]

21. Ooh, I'll get your jobs, my pretties!

and your 401k too!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

[L. Coyote]

17. Which of the following has the worst hairdo?

[LeftinOH]

18. Leona ran some pretty successful hotels- and they're still in business -n/t

[SpiralHawk]

19. Yes - and they both have RepubliPharisee Family Values

fer sure.

[WinkyDink]

20. THAT is what she thinks is a good haircut?! She looks my Aunt Mildred!

[Book Lover]

22. Ah, DU. Y'all never fail to confirm that the worst thing a woman can do

is not destroy two decent computer companies and throw thousands out of work, but to have looks not in conformance with the patriarchy. Thanks so much. I was beginning to worry that feminism had taken root here.

[backscatter712]

25. It's not so much her hair,

but she had to get nasty and make fun of Barbara Boxer's hair - at that point, she's fair game.

It's not just her hair that's like Leona Helmsley, it's her personality.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Okay, she's a rabidly anti-choice Republican who destroyed 2 companies and threw thousands out of

work...

who also looks like Leona Helmsley.

[Stevenmarc]

23. Good God you think with her money Carly could throw away the Flowbee

[Lucian]

26. Leno just compared her to Martin Short.

LOL

[TheKentuckian]

28. Now, that thar is funny, I don't care who ya are

[bedazzled]

30. she messed up three companies - she was at lucent, too

never forget a company wide meeting we had. she walked
in like she thought she was a rock star. i'm surprised
they didn't want her to walk on employees' bodies (maybe
somebody in accounting, a la dilbert...)

[jgraz]

31. Nope, I got it. End of thread.

One Two Three Four...ty-five million dollars! Ah hah hah hah!