{"id":273,"date":"2005-02-09T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T00:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=273"},"modified":"2005-02-09T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T00:44:47","slug":"ding-dong-the-with-is-dead-the-hp-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead&#8230; the HP way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After allowing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\">HP<\/a> brand to languish for years with little innovation; forcing a merger with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compaq.com\">another company<\/a> that has lead to plenty of plurality and inefficency, and no streamlining whatosever; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Hewlett+family+opposes+Compaq+deal\/2100-1001_3-275466.html\">alienating the families of the company&#8217;s founders<\/a>; and allowing product quality to decline so badly that I would never buy or recommend an HP product ever again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.integratedmar.com\/ECL.cfm?item=DLY020905-04\">CEO Carly Fiorina was finally ousted by the board, with typical corporate niceties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good riddance!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame the board took this long to figure things out, though I&#8217;m doubtful they are capable of bringing competent management aboard or correcting the course this once-great company has steered itself into.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/bush-fiorina-inside.jpg\" alt=\"bush-fiorina\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carly and Dubyah.  Yup.  Evil incarnate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP&#8217;s CEO has been ousted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}