[RihsusChrist(ATG)]

“This was a big bet that didn't pay off, that didn't even come close to attaining what Fiorina and HP's board said was in store,” Loomis wrote. And a competing website that Fiorina’s camp neglected to register — CarlyFiorina.org — on Monday featured row after row of frown-face emoticons to represent the 30,000 people Fiorina laid off in her time at HP.

In times of economic downturn, companies unfortunately have to layoff people. Carly had the misfortune of becoming CEO right before the "dot com bubble burst" in the early 2000's. It was painful, but necessary business decision due to the economic crisis.

[RihsusChrist(ATG)]

Originally posted by Citrus

....Because Whitman ran as the Republicsn for governor of California the same year Carly ran for Senate. They had to endorse each other.

Actually... Meg Whitman has praised Carly Fiorina recently.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/05/news...wlett-packard/

[Citrus]

Originally posted by RihsusChrist(ATG)

Actually... Meg Whitman has praised Carly Fiorina recently.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/05/news...wlett-packard/

I could've phrased that better. I meant that, since they ran on the same ticket in the same cycle, it's very unlikely for one to go out of their way to criticize the other. And Whitman is under fire for laying off people near similar volumes that Fiorina did, so her praising Carly is also another way of defending her own controversial decisions.

[Giselle]

See

I don't know. Part of me still thinks he's in this to troll.

[BlueTimberwolf]

Trump vs Bernie: How different are they?

[LuLuDrops]

[Chucko]

Originally posted by LuLuDrops

Did George just drop out and at the same time predict Trump will get the nomination?

[downbywednesday]

Originally posted by RihsusChrist(ATG)

Carly transformed HP into a more diverse company, and made it better in the long run. Sometimes it takes time for change to show positive results...the HP board was impatient, and that is why she was fired. HP CEO Meg Whitman has praised Carly on the changes she made at HP.

She literally almost killed the company, wtf are you on?

[downbywednesday]

Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf

Trump vs Bernie: How different are they?

I like how this just says "thinks open borders are bad, because neither are idiots" and leaves out that Bernie supports a path to citizenship while Trump wants to spend billions on a damn wall that won't work and can't come up with an effective strategy to deal with immigrants already here.

[Chucko]

Originally posted by downbywednesday

She literally almost killed the company, wtf are you on?

She did? How about showing me some receipts?

Compare Cisco, Ebay and Amazon to HP during the same time frame and tell me how those companies were doing. Where are you getting you talking points from MSNBC?

[downbywednesday]

Originally posted by Chucko

She did? How about showing me some receipts?

Compare Cisco, Ebay and Amazon to HP during the same time frame and tell me how those companies were doing. Where are you getting you talking points from MSNBC?

Go check their stocks back when she was president. They were dropping like flies. It jumped up 10% when she left.

Her petiod there was also the period that their products would overheat after like a hour of use.

Cute trying to smear your opponents by just claiming "librul media!!!!" btw.

[Chucko]

Originally posted by downbywednesday

Go check their stocks back when she was president. They were dropping like flies. It jumped up 10% when she left.

Her petiod there was also the period that their products would overheat after like a hour of use.

Cute trying to smear your opponents by just claiming "librul media!!!!" btw.

Every tech stock dropped during that period. Many companies folded. So you clearly are either ignorant or just regurgitating talking points you are hearing or reading on liberal media because no one in their right mind is going to look at the dot com bust and blame a single CEO for the overall collapse of the market.

[downbywednesday]

Originally posted by Chucko

Every tech stock dropped during that period. Many companies folded. So you clearly are either ignorant or just regurgitating talking points you are hearing or reading on liberal media because no one in their right mind is going to look at the dot com bust and blame a single CEO for the overall collapse of the market.

liberal media

You're not even worth debating with. I don't agree with BlueTimberWolf but at least he has actual arguments and not strawman attacks.

No consumer or investment confidence is almost killing a company. Point blank. Quit being dense.

[Chucko]

Originally posted by downbywednesday

You're not even worth debating with. I don't agree with BlueTimberWolf but at least he has actual arguments and not strawman attacks.

No consumer or investment confidence is almost killing a company. Point blank. Quit being dense.

Right because I don't know anything about business, the stock markets and how the media treats CEO's.

You keep deflecting, ignoring, denying the fact that every tech company got hammered in 1999, HP was already in a downturn when she took over. The bubble was bursting. This does not matter to you. You have a myopic view focused right on Carly when 1000's of CEO's were in the same situation doing the same things to keep their companies alive.

If all the companies that buy your products are suffering, guess what happens? Your company suffers and your value drops, it's the natural order or things.

This is such a basic concept and you just don't get it.

[that G.U.Y.]

I like how Bernie held a huge rally today in NC yet none of the major networks covered it.

Donald Trump gives a 15 min adress to a state fair and CNN and Fox News tlk about it all day.

[iamvladd]

WashPo/ABC: Poll: Trump, Carson top GOP race; Clinton leads Dems but support drops

[Giselle]

n; Huma Abedin has my dream job

[Revolution]

Originally posted by downbywednesday

She literally almost killed the company, wtf are you on?

I don't think she almost killed the company but she definitely was a bad CEO. While companies like Dell and IBM knew better than to focus on the PC market (hell, IBM even spun off its PC business and sold it to Lenovo IIRC), Carly decided it was best to buy Compaq for billions of dollars so HP could be the leader in a market with low profit margins and indistinguishable beige boxes. Dell, IBM, Cisco knew to bet on enterprise and cloud computing (a huge, emerging profitable area they could dominate) while HP didn't really get involved in that space till Fiorina was fired and Mark Hurd took over (fun fact: HP stock dropped after he was fired and rose after Fiorina was fired - very telling). She bet wrong - plain and simple. She should've focused on enterprise or even their printing business, which actually were very profitable instead of dragging down HP's overall margins by doubling down (quite literally) on PCs.

[LuLuDrops]

Miss America was tonight. Some comments caused gasps.

Miss Alabama with the Trump answer: "He's an entertainer and Republicans should be embarrassed"

[BlueTimberwolf]

Originally posted by LuLuDrops

Miss America was tonight. Some comments caused gasps.

Miss Alabama with the Trump answer: "He's an entertainer and Republicans should be embarrassed"

Pretty sure Trump is leading the polls in Alabama though.