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Forbes looking for fired advice
Posted on February 5, 2007 5:23 PM
What happens if you're a Forbes and you get fired from a job? Do you go by the ATM and make sure you've still got nine figures in checking, or do you stop by the private club for a snifter of brandy first?
If you're me, you check you ramen supplies, tell the local Thai place that you haven't died, you're just job hunting, and buy a tank of gas and plenty of toilet paper. Nothing sucks more than running out of TP.
Let's not forget our favorite job search site, of course.
No one named Forbes has been fired, but someone at the esteemed publication has been channeling your pal Fred and riffing on the fired CEO set.
There's plenty of familiar names in Hannah Clark's article, a discussion with some Yale ivory tower type who's probably taken a break from a grueling one or two course curriculum to write a book. Here's a question you should have asked Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Hannah: when's the last time you had to scrape for rent?
Hannah does get a couple of entertaining Q and A's in with the professor, like about who hasn't come back from getting kicked out of the big office...
Who has tried to come back and failed? Where's Carly Fiorina? Even her book is not selling. Last fall, HP had one of the most bizarre and tragic board meltdowns in history with the governance scandal. You would have thought Carly Fiorina would have had a great opportunity to have made it back. She wrote her revenge book, and it didn't help. She had a little flutter of attention, but it didn't help.Carly's failure ended with a $21 million straight cash payout from H-"Spies Like Us"-P. Boo freaking hoo, Jeffrey.
He redeems himself in an exchange with Hannah about ex-Home Depot chief Robert Nardelli. Seems that Not So Silent Bob has a massive superiority complex and can't accept his failures real well...
So maybe Robert Nardelli should just check into rehab.I know how I'd get fired by Not So Silent Bob if I was working for him. I'd be humming that tune, "GE, we bring good things to light," around him just to see if he'd blow capillaries in his forehead.
He should admit that he has a problem. His problem is not greed; his problem is a confidence problem. He never got to be the corporate titan at GE like he wanted. I know him, and I have had conversations with him. It takes only two questions and he's raging angry over the GE situation.
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Posted on: February 24, 2007 7:27 AM