Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant

Wow, quite surprised it was the liver now?
But as said before, Steve is needed still for a long time, therefore they're turning him to a cyborg.
 
Impulse said:
Why all the mystery and deception anyway? If he took a medical leave of absence so Apple could focus on their products and people wouldn't focus on him why not simply state why he needed a transplant (or even the fact that he needed one, instead of alluding vaguely to "hormonal imbalances" and "simple procedures")... Seriously, could he be any more of a diva? :rolleyes: Shame on the Journal for catering to it too...
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Maybe because it is a personal matter that he wanted to have stay with family and friends.
 
DeathFromBelow said:
But it's also illegal to lie to shareholders. I wouldn't be surprised to see a shareholder lawsuit over this.
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You need to brush up on your law. there is not one out there that says the CEO or any officer or employee needs to state their medical condition.

When all that nonsense started, it went nowhere for a reason: no grounds for a lawsuit.
 
Joe Average said:
I have to wonder if this procedure cost someone else a chance... it's widely understood that celebs and "famous" or wealthy folk get favors, so I just gotta wonder now if Jobs has a liver that potentially was set up for someone else and because of who he is, perhaps things just "worked out" in his favor.

It's an obvious question so... I'll be the first to put it out there in this thread I suppose. Reasonable doubt, right?
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C'est la vie.
 
Vermillion said:
He's a CEO over a global corporation that has again become profitable due to HIS iron fist way of doing things.

He croaks tonight and Apple's stock dies as soon as the market opens. Shareholders absolutely DESERVED to know that the CEO of the company they invested in was having such major surgery done so that they could determine what they wanted to do with their stock.
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no, they do not deserve to know what is going on in his personal life.
 
himmy said:
You need to brush up on your law. there is not one out there that says the CEO or any officer or employee needs to state their medical condition.

When all that nonsense started, it went nowhere for a reason: no grounds for a lawsuit.
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I'm pretty sure as an employee you can't just say you're taking a leave of absence for months on and w/o going into some specifics. I'm not saying he has to disclose his medical records or bring a note from the doctor, but there's a huge difference between an "hormonal imbalance" and needing a liver transplant, lol.

Shareholders absolutely deserve to know what's going on, not necessarily the details, but a CEO is not entailed to disappear willy nilly w/vague medical reasons as his sole excuse, and if they do have that right then that's just screwed up because the rest of the working force in this country does not.
 
I hope its all white, smooth and has the hepatic portal vein attached by a magnet alone... just in case, wouldnt want to throw the kidneys, heart and lungs on the floor with that would we!?!
 
I actually feel sorry for the guy, though I am no fan. He'll have frequent lab work and nasty drugs for the rest of his life, if he didn't already as a cancer survivor.
 
Impulse said:
I'm pretty sure as an employee you can't just say you're taking a leave of absence for months on and w/o going into some specifics. I'm not saying he has to disclose his medical records or bring a note from the doctor, but there's a huge difference between an "hormonal imbalance" and needing a liver transplant, lol.

Shareholders absolutely deserve to know what's going on, not necessarily the details, but a CEO is not entailed to disappear willy nilly w/vague medical reasons as his sole excuse, and if they do have that right then that's just screwed up because the rest of the working force in this country does not.
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When you get a big boy job, you will have something called a PTO. You can use a PTO if sick, if you want a day off, vacation, etc. You do not have to say why, you just have to have a PTO that has not been used.

PTO = paid time off.

My 401k has about a quarter of a mil spread out over numerous companies, money markets, funds, etc. i also invest on the side, long term and 'day trading.' There is not a single law out there that says an executive of any company has to state anything about his health.
 
trivial said:
I actually feel sorry for the guy, though I am no fan. He'll have frequent lab work and nasty drugs for the rest of his life, if he didn't already as a cancer survivor.
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agreed best wishes go out to steve jobs
 
himmy said:
You need to brush up on your law.
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And you need to brush up on your reading comprehension.

As I said earlier, the issue isn't his health, its the fact that we now know that Apple lied about his health to reassure investors. Jobs certainly has a right to some level of privacy, but when Apple said he was a-ok and just had a "hormone imbalance" they were deliberately misleading investors.
 
Look, if he had been up front about it, the the Folks over at CNBC wouldn't have been able to ply thier short-selling and hypr/teardown scam once again around Apple stock. :cool:
 
DeathFromBelow said:
And you need to brush up on your reading comprehension.

As I said earlier, the issue isn't his health, its the fact that we now know that Apple lied about his health to reassure investors. Jobs certainly has a right to some level of privacy, but when Apple said he was a-ok and just had a "hormone imbalance" they were deliberately misleading investors.
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This. ^^^

himmy you're missing the point. It's not that the world wants Jobs' complete medical history in PDF form. It's that shareholders absolutely DESERVED to know that Jobs had a SERIOUS medical condition that required a liver transplant.

If Jobs had died on the operating table Apple stock would have tanked and shareholders would have been royally pissed. They would have been screwed out of a ton of money leading to lawsuits against Apple.

Shareholders should have been told so that they could make informed decisions when it comes to their investment in Apple.
 
On a side note, if we all were forced to sign up to be donors of vital organs (in exchange for social security or federal aid etc) there would be organs a plenty, no one would have to worry if the doctors will let you die for your organs and it would be the ultimate form of file sharing. No more long waiting lists. We all die, if it can be used its one less things for the worm to eat when you die. Think about it. We have the power to make it a non issue.
 
himmy said:
When you get a big boy job, you will have something called a PTO. You can use a PTO if sick, if you want a day off, vacation, etc. You do not have to say why, you just have to have a PTO that has not been used.

PTO = paid time off.

My 401k has about a quarter of a mil spread out over numerous companies, money markets, funds, etc. i also invest on the side, long term and 'day trading.' There is not a single law out there that says an executive of any company has to state anything about his health.
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When you become a big boy too and get a big boy job you'll realize that PTO does not extend in spans of months, just a few days. Nice try though.

Medical leave of absence requires a doctor's excuse. He did have to say why.
 
fam said:
On a side note, if we all were forced to sign up to be donors of vital organs (in exchange for social security or federal aid etc) there would be organs a plenty, no one would have to worry if the doctors will let you die for your organs and it would be the ultimate form of file sharing. No more long waiting lists. We all die, if it can be used its one less things for the worm to eat when you die. Think about it. We have the power to make it a non issue.
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But then if i'm in a serious accident, the docs wont try to save me because Jobs wants my liver!

/conspiracy
 
himmy said:
When you get a big boy job, you will have something called a PTO. You can use a PTO if sick, if you want a day off, vacation, etc. You do not have to say why, you just have to have a PTO that has not been used.

PTO = paid time off.

My 401k has about a quarter of a mil spread out over numerous companies, money markets, funds, etc. i also invest on the side, long term and 'day trading.' There is not a single law out there that says an executive of any company has to state anything about his health.
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That's fine and dandy, but he didn't take a week or even a month off, he took several months off... That's not something any kind of medical leave or PTO I know off covers, not without some sort of explanation on the employee's part anyway. /shrug As for the contempt, stuff it.
 
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