Carly Fiorina's Big Mouth Could Cost Her a Senate Seat

I worked at HP for 8 years, 3 years under Carly’s reign of terror. I was terminated in the first round of layoffs at HP in their then 62 year history. My spouse still works for HP, so I have a lot of inside relevant information to share here unlike [Miranda of CA] above.

Carly's reign of terror at HP was downright rude, insensitive, and inconsiderate of those less fortunate than her. A huge example is how she treated people daily at HP, and also the way she went about layoffs at HP, as it is very indicative of her leadership style if she were to become a Senator for California.

Carly surveyed all of HP asking if we would be willing to take pay cuts and work fewer hours to avoid layoffs. 90%+ said “YES!” as workers and mgt had always been compassionate prior to her arrival. Her response was to hire a hatchet company Lee Hecht Harris (LHH) to lay off thousands of employees telling them they had no useful skills, putting personal and financial hardships upon many Californians, and striking a huge blow to the morale of remaining employees.

Her concern was minimal as to the impact on the California when State officials pleaded with companies like HP to help not overload Unemployment Insurance by engaging in mass layoffs. What did Carly do? She lay off hoards of Californians. Then she went on with her hair-brain crusade to pay too much for Compaq and all the while calling Walter Hewlett, the son of co-founder Bill Hewlett, a cello-playing dilettante business-know-nothing because he opposed her plans, even though he was the single largest individual shareholder of HP stock.

Does Carly know how to create jobs? Her record at HP shows that it’s unlikely any Californians will benefit as her record shows that she off-shores California jobs to India, Costa Rica, and other cheap labor markets. She’s completely disingenuous when she says that US workers must compete for these global jobs when a $6,000/yr job in Bangalore is a $60,000 job in the US. We can’t compete with that!

Feb. 10, 2005 it was announced that Carly was fired from HP. My spouse said that phones were ringing off the hook at work, HP employees calling each other to tell of Carly’s firing, and that many were literally dancing in the cubical isles, while others played "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" to celebrate. Her record is this: She was fired because HP’s stock tumbled in her tenure and never recovered while she was there. She helped flub up McCain/Palin’s 2008 Presidential bid flapping her arrogant mouth. Carly criticized Barbara Boxer’s hairdo and her for wanting to be addressed as “Senator.” And to top it, Carly doesn’t bother to vote herself, but she wants your vote. Go figure?

What rational voter would want a self-serving, insensitive, person suffering from a severe bout of megalomania, living in uber-rich Los Altos, CA, representing Californians in the US Senate?

Go Barbara!

[ Registered Republican and ex-HP employee, and I approve this message! ]

Ex HP Employee of CA 8:54PM October 06, 2010