Well well no surprise, no surprise at all. Jodie Fisher long-secret letter was released last week. It shows that Mark Hurd, in addition to being a prick in general, is a womanizer and sleazeball. Don’t take my word for it, you can read all about it here.
I’m no lawyer, but was it sexual harassment? Sure sounds like it. Well, at least from the lens of the training Mark Hurd made me fucking take, but obviously didn’t take himself.
Some of the more racy items:
- Poor Jodie Fisher had to fend off Mark’s advances. Ms. Fisher said ‘you know that you are touching my breast, right?’ You said, ‘Oh, sorry, sorry’ and then laughed it off.”
Hurd’s a boozer: ”You were drinking at this dinner excessively and seemed to get more friendly and personal the more you drank. You were always looking around decidedly aware of the fact that someone might recognize you because you are so well known.”
- He’s not the model of fidelity, according to the letter, “You had been telling her about many different women that were crazy about you, including Sheryl Crow.”
- In fact perhaps he’s the model of the power-crazed can-do-anything CEO. Looks like he’s got a girl in every port: “She was told by you at the Peninsula Hotel in the pool area that you regularly sleep with one woman in New York and that you sleep with another woman in San Francisco.”
- Marky, you’re a vain douchebag. And keep to much cash in your checking account: “You stopped at an ATM and showed her that your checking account balance was over a million dollars to impress her.”
- And Mark, you’re fucking pathetic. You’ll tell Ms Foster anything to get her in bed. Anything. This is pure and simple sap. It’s not even good. Mark Hurd, you are guilty of the world’s worst pickup lines: “You confessed that you felt like you could spend the rest of your life with her. You said you would have to see how the chemistry in bed was, but that that would not be a problem because ‘you try hard’”
[update: New York Times has a great article titled In H.P. Tale, a Question of Truth or Titillation]
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