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Can someone please explain what a "distressed baby" is in this context? And why did AOL foot a million dollar bill for each and then blame the mothers?

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Because he's an asshole with a long and illustrious history of doing shit like this?

I'm just really sad that we, the programmers and engineers, keep letting people like him climb up the ladder.

We, the programmers and engineers, have absolutely no say in the matter. If you wanted that influence you should have been an MBA. We're Morlocks.

But the need to professionalize is way overdue:

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-d...

Nah, programmers and engineers aren't Morlocks to executives Eloi -- when was the last time a programmer or engineer ate a C-suite exec?

Serfs, not Morlocks.

It may relate to prematurity. The cost of hospitalization of a premature baby can be 500K to 1.5 million on average given a 20-40 day stay in the NICU.

AOL's insurance would cover it and rates might rise slightly, but it is disingenuous to blame the women.

AOL might be self-insured, but I doubt it.

"You can only have health insurance until someone actually needs to use it."

What a shitty company.

Lots of possibilities. A premature birth. An congenital heart defect. etc.

Also, my read is that Armstrong thought he was going to sound like a great guy ... doing everything they could to help the distressed babies.

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