Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

Post by tim333 » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:28 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #18

bane wrote: post #16

Walgreens managers also grew increasingly frustrated in recent weeks with Theranos as they sought information about the extent of test reports it had corrected or voided. This seems to be a common thread in the stories I've read about Theranos, an almost pathological inability to provide basic information upon request. I can only guess that Holmes' notion of open and transparent communication is defined very differen…

This is hilarious https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Theranos-R... Advice to Management You are doing a good job. Stay in better touch with the employees. I think most people do feel appreciated but there are also some that are disgruntled and unhappy for other reasons. I see these people spreading negative energy. You should seek them and try and fix the problem. Is it common practice among upstart co…

Post by perseusprime11 » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:44 PM UTC

Post by daveguy » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:58 PM UTC

mathattack wrote: post #107

dominotw wrote: post #18

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This is hilarious https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Theranos-R... Advice to Management You are doing a good job. Stay in better touch with the employees. I think most people do feel appreciated but there are also some that are disgruntled and unhappy for other reasons. I see these people spreading negative energy. You should seek them and try and fix the problem. Is it common practice among upstart co…

Glassdoor reviews are still helpful - you just have to take the averages with a grain of salt, and filter any that seem to have been written by a PR flack.

Post by daveguy » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:06 PM UTC

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Then Walgreens should fail and come to be replaced by a pharmacy chain which one way or another depends on input from a competent pharmacist (whether they are equivalent of "CTO", or board of pharmacist advisors, or whatever works). But according to a very relevant ArsTechnica article[0], they thought to do due diligence, failed to do so, and then in a fit of unicorn mania did the deals anyway: Theranos failed to han…

Having a chaperone for guests just makes sense. At the very least, you can keep them from accidentally breaking something. If you're not escorting guests, you're doing it wrong.

Post by nommm-nommm » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 2:15 PM UTC

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Astroturfing Glassfoor should be considered fraud. It's giving information to potential employees while omitting material information (that the company is the oposter) for purposes which financially benefit the company and its backers.

True - it's deceitful and spreading misinformation. This is tangental, but I also think that posting open job positions online when there isn't one should be considered fraud as well. Same with recruiters who do the bait and switch. People invest time from their lives into those, only to result as a record in a database somewhere when there was never any intention to hire.