HP shakes up board (adds Meg Whitman)

[Newsjock]

Source: San Jose Mercury News

In its biggest board shake-up since the 2006 scandal over "pretexting" reporters' phone records, Hewlett-Packard named five new directors today -- including former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman -- while announcing that four current board members will not stand for re-election.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17149647

[katnapped]

1. Guess they didn't learn their lesson from Carly n/t

[Demeter]

4. Evidently not.

What has she got that I don't, aside from the connections and the $$$?

[cowcommander]

8. Connections is the #1 reason anyone can get a job nowadays

Qualifications mean nothing if you know the right people

[rfranklin]

13. As it ever was...

Nepotism and favoritism have always trumped qualifications.

[DCKit]

2. There's a lack of graphics for "death knell". nt

[MindandSoul]

3. Poor Meg needed a job!

[JI7]

5. i guess after spending all that money trying to buy the Governor's seat

[SemperEadem]

6. I'm glad I don't own HP products

I'd be throwing them all out the window about now.

[fatbuckel]

7. HP makes nothing but crap anymore. We're almost done phasing out 500+ laptops from them.

[cowcommander]

9. Seconding that, HP laptops are crap

Used to repair those pieces of garbage, ugh. What laptops are you getting now? I've been loyal to IBM for several years now, have yet to find one that failed me.

[Tempest]

11. Their printers are turning out to be crap as well

We have a bunch of P2015 and 1320 printers that are complete garbage.

[KurtNYC]

10. Let me guess...Whitman plans bay of fees for HP users

From now on when you print a check on an HP printer, HP will take 14% of the value of the check and you will have to pay that through PayPal, Pay Pal will take an additional 3%. Then if something doesn't print and you send it to print again, HP will not credit you for the re-printing fee. There will be fees for using any of the features. The first page of what you print will be consider "Gallery" and you will pay $2 for that. If you print in more than one category, 50-cents for the second category. If you want a 10 day auction instead of a 7, 20-cents extra. You want something to start printing an hour from now: fee.

< end of tortured eBay (fee-Bay) analogy >

[Le Taz Hot]

12. Now Meg can do what she did for E-Bay . . .

Totally fuck it up.