HP secrets jump the shark

The temptation to do one episode too many, drag out a joke, hold a note at the end of a karaoke song and generally bore the pants out of the audience that was once in the palm of your hand is only human.

So it's no wonder that Consumerist has added nine more HP secrets.

The original 14 were good, although the first one - the allegation that printer components are hardwired to give up at a certain page count - is worth more than the other 13 put together.

But the extra nine? Sheesh, this is scraping the barrel.

I mean, "Support for home computing is done by a flow chart"?

Or "HP considers countries like Canada to be not worth the time or effort to market to".

Countries like Canada? Where? You mean France? Norway? Mexico?

And "outsourced companies pay their people crap".

Oh, and here we were thinking they were popular because they hold good parties and have their own cordon-bleu chefs, like Google.

And "I just wish I could give you the ‘stupid customer stories' because some of them are hilarious"?

No, they're really not.

Next week at Consumerist: "Exclusive! How banks prefer profitable customers to not profitable ones."

"Fast-food restaurants. Hollywood tie-ins disguise poor employee career prspects and unhealthy products."

And of course: "More HP secrets: Carly Fiorina reign considered not shining example of how to run company". µ

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