“I didn’t fail. I was fired”
That is a quote from Caly Fiorina that is in todays, P-I. I guess she was in town today on a book tour. I wish that I would have known this and attended the event, but sadly I am reading this at 10:00 at night.
Carly is so mysterious to me. Yes, she may have not seen her firing coming, but c’mon the stock plummeted, earnings were down, and moral at HP was down. She didn’t do to many things right at HP and because her exit was quick she thinks that it was an old boys club that forced her out? I know it’s tough to admit defeat, or that you did something wrong, but the hardest part has to be moving from $28M annually and one of the most powerful women in business according to Forbes.
She blames the board of directors for having differences that came out in the press, yet it should be her responsibility to control the board. She says that laying off 36,000 people was the toughest decision she had to make and that she had to go through the same thing as all of those people when she was fired. Really? Did you Carly? Those people lost their retirement and were paid, what 6 months? 8 months? salary. I guess you were payed about the equivelant of 9 months salary when you were asked to leave, but I’m going to say there’s a difference between $50,000 and $21M. Just a small one.
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