HP's Dunn Stepping Down

XJHardware writes "Yahoo news is reporting that Patricia Dunn is stepping down from the chair of HP." From the article: "Hurd will retain his existing positions as chief executive and president and Dunn will remain as a director after she relinquishes the chair on Jan. 18. 'I am taking action to ensure that inappropriate investigative techniques will not be employed again. They have no place in HP,' Hurd said in a statement. Dunn apologized for the techniques used in the company's probe, which included 'pretexting' in which private investigators impersonated board members and journalists to acquire their phone records."

No Big Surprise

[onkelonkel]

When you hit the cover of Newsweek as a shining example of corporate misbehaviour, it's safe to say your days are numbered.

I guess...

[chriswaclawik]

I guess you can say his time at HP is... DUNN for! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... sigh.

Another example of the "Old Boy's Network"

[Anonymous Coward]

crushing a woman simply because she is powerful. Well, and amoral. Illegal, too.

Anyway, it's just the establishment putting someone down just because they are female and criminal.

Terrible pun...

[Yuioup]

So maybe now GNU/Hurd will finally be Dunn...

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Re:deck chairs on the titanic, nothing changed

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I know just what you mean. I remember years ago when the HP Field Service guys would come out, it was like a visit from the Federal Marshals they were so not fucking around. Those guys could glance at a hex error code on an LCD and tell you (from memory) that SIMM #5 had failed, or tell you that CPU #3 had failed by the taste of the dust on top of the cabinet. Then they'd go out to their trunk and get a new CPU card for your T500 or 847 or whatever because they remembered which model you had and brought one along "just in case"...

Those days started to die with Lou Platt; Carly killed and buried them; the current crop of clowns are just dancing on their grave.

Excuse me?

[Travoltus]

A corporate officer? Going to jail? What are you, some kind of communist?

Look what happened the last time we put a corporate officer in jail, he had a heart attack. Your jealousy of the rich & powerful is overwhelmingly hateful in its magnitude.

Won't somebody think of the CEOs, oh the horror of it all!!!

Re:Pretexting??

[Himring]

...

uuaah, my head asplode.