Paul S. Otellini has died

Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by _wmd on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:30PM (#15394222)

Second paragraph dives straight into corporate quarterly bonus bullet point bullshit! What about the human! This is easily the worst in memoriam I think I've ever seen. Written by some HR droid? What an embarrassment, I think I just discovered why I'd never, ever work for Intel

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Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by topgunsarg on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:50PM (#15394425)

Getting outraged over a paragraph detailing someone's professional accomplishments in their professional obituary...It's Intel's article on their former CEO's death, what's it supposed to do, detail his personal life?

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Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by _wmd on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:27PM (#15394752)

An obituary should detail a man and /his/ life rather than his relationship to a company, I understand how some people think this is justifiable, but I also just find it grotesque in every way. I know nothing more about him than I did prior to reading, or whether he achieved any kind of satisfaction in his personal life, which I think is kinda the point of these things.

Quarterly OKRs for a millionaire? I really hope they weren't the entirety of his existence, otherwise we're all doomed

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Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by sillysaurus3 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:52PM (#15394449)

Other accomplishments included signing on notable new customer engagements, such as winning the Apple PC business,

FWIW that's impressive to me. Apple is probably one of their larger customers, and the deal could've gone to AMD instead.

Business accomplishments can be worth praising.

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Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by biggestdummy on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:57PM (#15394488)

Disagree. Just because they are business accomplishments doesn't mean that they are without value. He likely worked incredibly hard to achieve those results. Why shouldn't they be recognized along with his mentoring and philanthropic works?

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Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by sp332 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:32PM (#15394246)

A little tasteless, but it might have been an attempt to prevent high-frequency trading bots from freaking out and selling.

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Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by dman on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:37PM (#15394291)

I never thought about bots in this context, thanks for pointing this out.

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Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by yellowapple on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:29PM (#15394766)

"What about the human!"

I don't know if they've since edited it or what, but it currently describes plenty about how "the human" is the reason for those numbers. It reads to me like a recognition of Otellini's successes as CEO.

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Re:Paul S. Otellini has died by craftyguy on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:33PM (#15394249)

Well, it does attribute the company's financial success during this period to him.

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