Well, she did it. After months of speculation, Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard has thrown her hat into the ring for a run at Barbra Boxer’s senate seat.

This is going to get ugly.

Speaking as a woman in high tech, nobody wanted Cary to succeed at being the CEO of a Fortune 50 company more than me. I was tired of being the only woman in the room at meetings, I was tired of testosterone charged work days, I was tired of trying to out-guy the guys. I wanted someone who could be the face of women in high tech; to show the world that, hey, a girl could do this. Carly was charismatic, a dynamite speaker and seemed tailor-made for the role.

Then she actually tried to do the job. Cue the screeching tire and car crashing sounds.

Allow me to spill my guts here: I worked for HP during the Carly years and if there is anything I can do to assure this woman never is in a position of responsibility ever again, I will do it. During her tenure, I went to work with a knot in my stomach. Seeing someone in the cafeteria whom I had not seen in a long time was cause for celebration, because my friend was still employed! Lay-offs became routine, mundane occurrences, along with dropping stock prices and morale. Bonuses and raises were a distant memory.

When I joined HP, my dad actually bragged to his co-workers, “My daughter works for HP!”  and they were pissed because their kids all wanted to work for HP and couldn't get jobs there. HP was considered THE place to work when I was in college. They did cool things and they treated you right. Carly turned HP into the opposite of HP. In pre-Carly days when I told someone where I worked, they would inevitably say something along the lines of “I hear that is a great place to work”. Post Carly, it would be a sneer and a,”Oh, so you haven’t been laid off yet”. Something very precious was lost there, and it will never be regained.

“Train wreck” doesn’t quite cut it when describing Carly’s tenure at HP. “Epic fail” works better. During her tenure at HP, the stock nosedived 44%. She spent billions to acquire Compaq, promising big gains, which never materialized. She chased the last of the Hewlett and Packard families out of the company. She laid off over 28,000 people, and completely destroyed HP’s reputation as quality company to work for. She racked up over $100 million in compensation, including her $21 million severance.

Shit, I would have ruined the company for half that.

What has she done lately? Well, she was on  John McCain’s staff for his failed presidential bid. She got sidelined, however, after she admitted that neither John or Sarah Palin was qualified to run a major company. (Because no one knows “un-qualified to run a major corporation” like a failed former CEO)

Anyone notice a theme emerging here? (Hint: FAIL) And this woman thinks she can take on Boxer?

I can tell you that people in Silicon Valley will be lining up to vote against her. I know I will.