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Would you know a bottom if you saw one? - Kevin Delaney, WSJ
Rumours say Hector to leave Monday
A CONFLUENCE OF events has started the rumour mill jumping, all around AMD supremo Hector Ruiz leaving on Monday.
All variants are more or less the same with a few details changed, but they all seem to have one thing in common, they are not true.
The rumour is simple, Dirk Meyer will replace Hector Monday. Why? Several things. First, Meyer was appointed to the board a week or so ago, and now he is set to keynote Oracle World and Taxidermy School Monday.
If that wasn't enough to convince you, how about an AMD AR bigwig going on to bluer pastures (no, not them!) at the same time they can an analyst briefing set for Monday, Conspiracy? I think not actually.
What it sounds like is a bunch of things happening at the same time that people simply connected a bunch of dots and found a picture in it. Sadly, in a bunch of checking, we have found quite reasonable explanations for everything here.
This leads us to believe that a bunch of data points is just a bunch of data points without pictures behind the dots. This is backed up by the 'usual suspects' not hearing a damn thing internally. Of course once we say that something is not going to happen, the large hammer of universal karmic retribution is bound to land on our head, it has been far too long. I for one will not be wearing a helmet on Monday though. µ
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Sometimes such rumours are a hidden suggestion rather than just a mistake..
And one wonders then WHO plants them.
I doubt Monday is the day. But clearly the decision has been made. In the AMD internal employee directory, Hector and Dirk are pictured together. Dirk towers above Hector in the pictures. At the most recent quarterly manager's meeting, Dirk did most the talking. It is apparent Dirk recently attended the same manager's acting school that Michael Cappellas did. He said 'a beautiful thing' three times in a single act. Michael Cappellas used the same phrase a similar number of times during his last appearance before selling Compaq. Dirk has the fast walk, fast talk, and hand motions of Cappellas. He is a different person now. He is very popular because he looks exactly like Chevy Chase did in the early 1970's.