Ahh, so as long as the stench stays contained to the boardroom the investors were willing to ignore it, but as the stench seeps out from under the boardroom door and into the CEO’s office the shareholders decided to get out. Interesting.
HP’s CEO is holding a press conference in about an hour. I wonder if he can clear the air and make that smell move somewhere else?
At the Ragan PR conference the HP problem is a topic of conversation here. I just sat through a session of “PR winners and sinners.” Sinners being folks like Vice President Dick Cheney who shot his friend in the face while hunting. Winners being people like Kyra Phillips, CNN anchor who accidentally took a microphone into the bathroom and then went on David Letterman to redeem herself.
Anyway, I’m getting bored by talking about HP. I’d rather link to Beet.TV who has discovered that Google Video now has a capability for captioning. That’s cool.
I’m off to Chicago’s airport to catch a flight back to California. Stay out of trouble and, remember, no matter how flawed your life is or how sucky a job you have it still is far better than being an HP PR member right now.