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H-P Chief Quits in Scandal
WSJ Online ^ | 6 Aug 2010 | KEVIN KINGSBURY

Posted on 08/06/2010 3:03:46 PM PDT by ken in texas

Excerpt:

Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Mark Hurd has resigned in the wake of a sexual-harassment investigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: hewlettpackard; hp; markhurd
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It looks like Mark is gone. More info in the link. (I just used the first paragraph, not completely sure what our rules are for the WSJ.)
1 posted on 08/06/2010 3:03:48 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: ken in texas

“resign” = a political correct polite way of saying “fired”.


2 posted on 08/06/2010 3:04:36 PM PDT by cranked
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To: ken in texas

He is a good CEO but maybe not a good person. Compared to the Kennedys and most polictians - Hurd is probably an angel.


3 posted on 08/06/2010 3:07:48 PM PDT by Frantzie (Television controls the American people/sheep)
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To: ken in texas

I worked for HP under Hurd.. I was layed off after 29 years 9 months - 87 days away from full retirement.. Didn’t get so much as a thank you..

Mark can kiss my a$$.. and, no, I will not hire him in the business I started..


4 posted on 08/06/2010 3:10:36 PM PDT by tje
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To: ken in texas

Somebody who actually takes responsibility for his actions...must be one of those conservatives.


5 posted on 08/06/2010 3:15:05 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 19 days away from outliving Francis Gary Powers)
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To: tje

What was HP’s primary market when you started?


6 posted on 08/06/2010 3:18:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: tje

Weren’t you vested?


7 posted on 08/06/2010 3:20:06 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: ken in texas

He was screwing a contractor and she (gender assumption on my part) was billing her time..

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-06/hp-s-mark-hurd-resigns-after-sexual-harassment-probe.html


8 posted on 08/06/2010 3:20:41 PM PDT by tje
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He was screwing a contractor and she (gender assumption on my part) was billing her time..

Hmmm. Getting paid while screwing the CEO. I think they have a name for that...

9 posted on 08/06/2010 3:24:28 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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He was screwing a contractor and she (gender assumption on my part) was billing her time.

Sounds kinda like the lawyers who screw their clients when they bill their time.

10 posted on 08/06/2010 3:24:56 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (We'll remember in November!)
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To: Gene Eric

I worked in pc’s.. notebooks in particular.. I’m down in Houston now.. that’s where the laid me off..


11 posted on 08/06/2010 3:25:26 PM PDT by tje
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To: SamAdams76

Why don’t these rich guys hire “high class” pros, pay them with $100 bills, and introduce themselves as “Biff”? They would save a lot of money.


12 posted on 08/06/2010 3:26:06 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: MAexile
Hmmm. Getting paid while screwing the CEO. I think they have a name for that...
worked for Bill Clinton
13 posted on 08/06/2010 3:26:35 PM PDT by tje
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To: ken in texas

Wadanidgit.


14 posted on 08/06/2010 3:29:21 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: rawhide

Oh, yeah, I got my retirement, my profit sharing, and my 401k.. but no healthcare..

That really doesn’t bug me..

It was the lack of a thank you for all those years of service.. and I did well.. I saved them more money than they ever paid me.. I’ve still got the patent plaques hanging on a wall..


15 posted on 08/06/2010 3:30:09 PM PDT by tje
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Well, soon obamma will be paying for your healthcare.


16 posted on 08/06/2010 3:32:23 PM PDT by rawhide
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I have an old Pavilion laptop with a P4. It was decent in its day. Now it’s used only to shell into the servers, and provide other IT related utility.

I don’t imagine HP was selling notebooks in the early 80s.


17 posted on 08/06/2010 3:33:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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from article "He helped the company retake leadership in the PC market from Dell Inc. and used acquisitions to expand into new areas, such as computer services."

I have not been impressed with HP stuff, or to be more blunt, Sh!t, Basically he help HP sell more Sh!t then Dell, Obama will probably hire him as his next campaign manager.

18 posted on 08/06/2010 3:34:13 PM PDT by ReformedBeckite
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To: rawhide

in your dreams.. I’m paying for it... I guessing I’ll continue to doing so..


19 posted on 08/06/2010 3:35:33 PM PDT by tje
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To: Gene Eric

There was some bizzaro ones in the 80’s.. I worked for LID for a while (Multimeter R&D), then I worked in the calculator R&D (41c if you remember that).. Then notebooks.. both the HP side (Omnibooks) and then post merger..

I run a business now and I hire laid off HPeons in the 50 year plus age group.. We do pretty good..

(I go back to the 9825 if you want to google that, used to deal with ferrite core memory..)


20 posted on 08/06/2010 3:41:39 PM PDT by tje
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