Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds

Re:Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds by woofyman on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:54PM (#14143770)

>Theranos tries to apply the same kinds of tactics, and people are literally calling for Holmes to go to jail.

The difference is Holmes was endangering people's health and lives.

<Marissa Mayer eliminates work from home at yahoo. The world freaks out. Jeff Bezos does the same thing at amazon: he's smart. This is good for the culture.

Didn't Mayer build a nursery next to her office?

>you people downvoting the thread need to grow up and take a closer look at yourselves and your lives. You are a big part of the problem with gender and racial bias in our industry.

Seriously? Calling out people as sexist when it's not there doesn't help.

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Re:Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds by ianamartin on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:22PM (#14143985)

Uber putting unlicensed self-driven cars that run stop lights puts people in danger. Has Theranos falsified tests that people need to survive? I don't think so.

Maybe back up on that endangering people's lives, or--if I'm wrong about Theranos--at least place them as equals.

Does it matter that Mayer built a nursery? I can't see how that's not a total non sequitur.

Calling out latent sexism where people think they are being completely normal--because sexism is completely normalized in the tech community right now is exactly what I will keep doing.

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Re:Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds by woofyman on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:42PM (#14144131)

>Does it matter that Mayer built a nursery? I can't see how that's not a total non sequitur.

Her employees can't work from home and be with their young children while she gets an in office nursery.

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Re:Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds by icebraining on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:57PM (#14144226)

Sure they can, thanks to the maternity leave that she extended to sixteen weeks. Meanwhile, she only took two weeks for herself.

In any case, it's absurd to compare the CEO. Do Amazon employees get to ride on Bezos' jet to get home faster? It's just a vastly different position.

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Re:Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds by consz on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:18PM (#14144342)

What are you supposed to do after the sixteen weeks?

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Re:Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds by woofyman on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:50PM (#14144508)

Quit your job or hire a stranger to take care of your baby.

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Re:Theranos Agrees to Pay $4.65M in Arizona Refunds by consz on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:53PM (#14144530)

I mean, do you really need me to explain why people see Meyer's move as hypocritical?

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