It Doesn't Wash Here:
Carly Fiorina will not have done HP-Compaq any favours this week with her somewhat unthinking statements 1, 2.
“There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore”
There never was, but what was she thinking stating that publicly?! Oh, the unfeeling bitch part, that’ll earn you support with the people whose jobs you’re likely to outsource sometime soon, and anyone else for that matter.
“HP’s CEO Carly Fiorina filled her keynote speech at CES with media piracy rhetoric, saying that consumers are undermining the economy and the morals of this nation by exchanging music.”
Look lady, you may not have realized it, but those unscrupulous file-sharers are the people paying your salary, not the RIAA. Better not to talk about morals when you’re axing American jobs left and right. Dare I point out, by moving those of jobs abroad and prolonging the life of a corrupt, unchecked, unfeasible, and outmoded business, YOU are undermining the American economy by a factor far greater than said ‘evil-doers’.
My point being that as a CEO of a corporate juggernaut, you don’t go around alienating consumers and preaching about the human spirit, unless you assume the issue to be of fundamental concern to the continued existence of mankind and you absolutely believe in what you are saying — in which case Ms. Fiorina is an idiot.
