NEW YORK – The appointment of a German software executive as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s next CEO sends an unmistakable signal that the board of the world's largest technology company is prepared to gamble big on an aggressive push into the software business.
The guy ran SAP.
The article goes on to explain how HP needs to integrate software into it's traditional business. Whatever.
The last HP CEO, Mark Hurd, left in a sexual and financial scandal. He was/is a douchebag. While CEO, Hurd cut ~50,000 jobs from the company, and forced pay cuts on everyone else.. even while the company's stock was increasing as well as it's profits. He used the general decline in the economy to justify laying off all those people, and cutting everyone else's pay. He never cared in the least what effect that had on anyone. They were only human beings, after all.
What he also did was shatter the illusion that HP and it's employees have any sort of commitment to each other. It used to be that management and employees could pretend they were all one big "team". Now, it's simply open hostility. The employees despise the management, and the management acknowledges that the employees are simply a tool for enriching themselves and stock holders.
In that respect, it's a refreshing change of pace. Putting on the bullshit show was always so trite.
Not saying I work for MegaCorp or anything.. just that that particular culture is typical of American corporations now. The economy has forced honesty on some people. The employees don't care anything about the corporation and will jump at a sliver of a chance to get a better deal elsewhere. Employers don't even bother trying to rationalize the latest cut in benefits or pay.
It is somewhat satisfying to see that asshole Hurd exposed for being the jackass he is. His punishment for the behavior that would leave the rest of us out of a job, and out of income, is a very high paying job at another corporation. After all, corporate America is all about being on the board of directors at each other's company. That way, as long as there are no dead bodies discovered, nothing else matters.
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