XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:11:11 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   > On 29/12/2025 23:40, John Ames wrote:   
   >> You can see this again and again in corporate Big Tech; look at, for   
   >> example, Carly Fiorina, who pulled a "turnaround" with Lucent back in   
   >> the late '90s - early '00s which was to a significant extent based in   
   >> shady financial games and ultimately gutted the company; 130,000 people   
   >> lost their jobs as a result, and Fiorina...went on to run the show at   
   >> HP and was all geared up to put*them*  in the toilet as well before   
   >> being forced out, but ultimately got her comeuppance by...um, losing   
   >> her bid for the GOP nomination in 2016 and having to fall back on being   
   >> incredibly wealthy and getting public-speaking engagements.   
   >>   
   > +1.   
   >   
   > Th HP of my youth were the no 1 instrumentation engineers.  Nary a hint   
   > of consumer products.   
      
   Fiorina had unique talents.  Fiorina took the strengths of both companies   
   and swapped them.   
      
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