Although we don’t know the full story yet, the veil is slowly lifting over HP’s latest sex scandal.
HP CEO Mark Hurd hired an aging porn star to play a cute “femme de compagnie” a.k.a “hostess” for fellow “high-level” HP executives and “clients.”
Such a crucial position at HP that Hurd felt obliged to interview the “soft-core” porn star himself for the job. Pretty hands-on kind of guy for a quite button-down executive!
HP Way? Using porn stars to close deals
For sure, this is really raising some questions on exactly how some of these big IT deals are ‘closed’ at HP; which by the way announced better numbers than expected. Sweet!
However this interesting”menage a trois” [Hurd is married] didn’t seem to please HP’s board of directors presided by… Hurd himself!
In a following investigation, HP’s chief was accused of submitting inaccurate expense reports to the amount of $20,000 that the company says concealed his relationship with the porn star.
And voila! Instead of celebrating his $100 million renewal contract with HP, Hurd is fired with “only” $35 million in severance pay.
Not bad, considering that he’s now “off the hook” – having settled with this unknown actress that should remained unknown! – and has time to contemplate his next job… at IBM perhaps!
Shareholders: time to bring HP Board to Court!
Common HP, Mark Hurd is no Bill Clinton, who after all got to keep his job!
Worse, because of this “lack of judgement” HP shareholders lost cumulatively billions of dollars and should demand a full explananation from HP’s Board, and why not, sue them!
On a good note, the Hurd sex scandal bodes well for retired porn stars that should have no problem as hostesses for high-level executives in Corporate America! Viva capitalism!
Posted by TechPulse 360 
