Posted on 10/22/2016 7:04:02 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
The widow of a scientist who killed himself in fear he was about to lose his job at troubled bio-tech start-up Theranos has told of the company's paranoid culture.
Ian Gibbons, the head scientist at the blood test company, died after taking an overdose of painkillers in May 2013 within hours of being summoned for a meeting.
According to his widow, Rochelle, he had found faults in machines the company claimed would 'change the world' by being able to diagnose diseases from a single pinprick of a patient's blood.
Having recently been diagnosed with cancer, he stopped going to work and feared he was going to be fired when bosses called him in.
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes (above) did not allow employees to speak in groups and had lawyers listen to their phone calls, the widow of her top scientist has claimed
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Honestly, a strong argument can be made that she should be facing criminal charges.
Very true. I guess, until someone writes the book, we’ll not know what actually went on with the employees. My experience with seriously sick bosses is that the workers become alienated from each other as well - keeping their heads down to avoid punishment, sometimes tattling like children.
Sounds like the Hildebeast!!
She should have been arrested and arraigned by now. She should be in JAIL awaiting her trial, not in seclusion while it all falls apart for everyone else.
“But there are far too many out there these days who truly think of the employees as some sort of plaything for mind games.”
I do believe that Steve Jobs started this lunatic trend of Silicon Valley bosses messing with employees and turning their company into a name brand cult that overworks employees while subjecting them to emotional and psychological abuse.
Fully agree; he couldn’t at all cope with the worry that his boss might spy on him and hurt his family. Lawyers listening to phone calls, WAY out of line and unconstitutional.
Don’t I know it; I run my own business and do other work, but frankly, it takes a HUGE amount of brainstorming to just get the basic idea thought up and the actual getting the business running just to square one.
She was also the darling of the techie nerds who drooled over her. She was their epitome of a dream come true.
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