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Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by avn2109 »

randycupertino wrote: post #64
dominotw wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

My old job made us write positive reviews on company time. Basically anywhere that says, "keep doing what you are doing" as the advice to management and/or the reviews are ALL either 1 star or 5 star reviews, you know they are fake.

When they make you write reviews, the trick is to write a very glowing one, including several perks that you wish you had but don't. e.g. "Great company, love the 20% own-projects time and work-from-home Fridays." This has all kinds of good effects:

1) It subtly anchors execs and HR to accept your perk as reasonable, especially because the people paying attention to Glassdoor are far removed from your manager and don't actually know if you have those perks or not. "Since our company already does it, it must be a good idea," thinks the exec.

2) Your coworkers see the reviews and assume the perks are true but unevenly distributed, thereby further ingraining the perks in the company zeitgeist.

3) If you are eventually found out, nobody will ask you to write reviews any more.

and 4) Candidates, including good candidates, will come to interviews and say things like "I've heard you have 20% time, that's a great idea, tell me more about it." This fans the flames in favor of your perks.

I used this technique as part of a wildly successful give-us-more-perks agitation campaign in my previous job.

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by whacker »

dennyis wrote: post #44

Man I've gotta say that despite all the bad news this really bums me out. I love being able to run down to Walgreens, order my own blood tests, and get the results without a doctor or a big hassle.

All the other replies are misinterpreting this: There was once hope that this would democratize/commoditize medical testing.

Sad that it did not come true.

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by bduerst »

nommm-nommm wrote: post #129
bduerst wrote: post #116

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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.

I agree. Proving it would be difficult though.

Yep. It would have to require a regulating body like the IRS to be involved, since new hires are reported against EIN.

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by mathattack »

pdabbadabba wrote: post #120
mathattack wrote: post #110

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In this case I believe that the contract was very tilted towards Theranos. The execs in charge were forced out previously. [0] I don't know any specifics on indemnification though, but if Theranos goes under, they can't indemnify much. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/business/a-once-avid-ally-...

> if Theranos goes under, they can't indemnify much. Insurance!

Do you think they're fully insured? (I have no idea)

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by mathattack »

daveguy wrote: post #125
mathattack wrote: post #107

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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.

That filter should consider every review that looks like it was written by PR as a 1 star. Adjust accordingly. Theranos appears to have about a 1.1 star average with that adjustment.

Yes indeed!

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by new_hackers »

avn2109 wrote: post #141
randycupertino wrote: post #64

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My old job made us write positive reviews on company time. Basically anywhere that says, "keep doing what you are doing" as the advice to management and/or the reviews are ALL either 1 star or 5 star reviews, you know they are fake.

When they make you write reviews, the trick is to write a very glowing one, including several perks that you wish you had but don't. e.g. "Great company, love the 20% own-projects time and work-from-home Fridays." This has all kinds of good effects: 1) It subtly anchors execs and HR to accept your perk as reasonable, especially because the people paying attention to Glassdoor are far removed from your manager and don…

You sir or madam are and evil genius! My hat off to you!

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by new_hackers »

miander wrote: post #83
eli wrote: post #82

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What's wrong with encouraging employees to post reviews? When you sign up as an employer, glasdoor gives you a sample email to send that asks for honest reviews.

Because it creates an implicit expectation that your review should be positive .

They wil sometimes remove reviews that are too negative. They removed mine of my previous employer.

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by robotresearcher »

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…

"Knowing that we have top talent in every vertical reinforces my pride and confidence in Theranos"

Facepalm.

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by ryguytilidie »

dhimes wrote: post #128
ryguytilidie wrote: post #124

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Well that plus I've had two separate situations where I left a negative review and was threatened until I took it down. Not sure you're going to see many unbiased views there...

How were you threatened?

One threatened to tell my current boss that I had been a bad, disruptive employee, even though he admitted that he knew that this was untrue. So he basically threatened to try and get me fired from my job because I reviewed my experience working at his company.

Other one threatened to sue me because I had signed a non-disparagement agreement after a layoff.

Re: Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

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Post by ryguytilidie »

alaskanloops wrote: post #140
ryguytilidie wrote: post #124

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Well that plus I've had two separate situations where I left a negative review and was threatened until I took it down. Not sure you're going to see many unbiased views there...

They were able to identify you?

Yep. Small team one time and a coworker of mine who knew I wrote it told the company on the other one.
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