Connecticut Woman Alleges Genetic Discrimination at Work

April 30, 2010

  • April 30, 2010 at 1:38 am
    Joe Mama says:
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    I’m pretty sure one of my bosses is at least half pig. I guess we don’t discriminate genetically in my company.

  • April 30, 2010 at 1:40 am
    Rabbits for Sale says:
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    This plainly sucks. I cna only hope that her consultant->boss has a testicle-ectomy.

    Without painkillers.

    And performed by Travis the Chimp.

    And he gets to recuperate on a bed of cactus.

  • April 30, 2010 at 1:48 am
    Fair Dealer says:
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    Speak of discriminatory personalities… I do not see in the article anything that says or implies the new consultant has testicles that can be ectomized. That is just plain wrong to blame this as gender based. It proves that it is often the “special class” that wrongly acuses the innocent of unfair discrimination.

  • April 30, 2010 at 2:08 am
    Rabbits for Sale says:
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    It’s a lot more fun to shoot from the hip.

    I did some research and found that the person who let her go was Marjorie Kass.

    Speaking as a yet-to-be-emasculated guy whose wife works in the electric utility biness, this kind of crap is typical to ignorant caucasian males in supervisory positions. Pay the girls less then dump on them.

    But on behalf of others who thought I was rash, go figure.

  • April 30, 2010 at 2:11 am
    Aaron Brockovich says:
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    I am sure this termination had nothing to do with the economy and eliminating fluff positions. Why would the company care if someone carried that gene, unless they did breast milk production and sales? To contain future medical insurance costs?

  • April 30, 2010 at 2:20 am
    Smitty says:
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    Whne you lose your job you lose your insurance.

    More likely they fired her because of the economy-nothing personal, oil prices dropped from 140/barrel to 40/barrel and are now back to 87/barrel and the feds crushed US oil development.

    Tens of thousands of oil company employees have been laid off-not just secretaries.

    This is the reality for people that choose to get healthcare through their employer rather than buying it directly from a private insurer.

    You also have more rights when you buy medical insurance not through your employer, employer insurance is subject to erisa law also-which makes it much harder to sue your insurance company.

  • April 30, 2010 at 2:21 am
    Rabbits for Sale says:
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    And the tough part is that she was carrying her family with the better job than her husband, plus two kids AND she had the package with the medical benefits.

    Guess she’ll be having a real hard time replacing that job – how do you explain what happened in an interview? Do you call the surgery “proactive personal risk management”?

    It takes an average of 7 years to get a losing defendant to settle any of the costs, judgements etc in a labor suit, what with appeals etc. In the meantime, I hope Pamela’s parents don’t mind having them move back home.

  • April 30, 2010 at 2:28 am
    Compman says:
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    I guess she didn’t know her job was booby trapped.

  • April 30, 2010 at 3:09 am
    mikey says:
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    Maybe she started sucking at her job after the stress of surgery and finding out about the gene.

  • April 30, 2010 at 3:41 am
    Dawn says:
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    Choose?
    Who over the age of 30 hasn’t had some prior condition that exempts them from purchasing insurance on their own?
    I had insurance independantly. After I was diagnosed with an S Protein deficiency I was dropped. Can’t get insurance on my own now.
    My son has Asthma. Again, pre-existing.
    So through my employer is NOT A CHOICE.



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