On a cloudy Wednesday morning in San Francisco, the moment uBiome's employees had been expecting for months finally arrived.
The beleaguered poop-testing startup began laying off about half its staff, as the company searches for a path forward after an FBI raid and the departures of its founders.
At uBiome's headquarters in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, people who'd just been let go began streaming out of a grey warehouse building around 9:30 a.m.
Some carried potted plants. One blasted the Phil Collins rock anthem "You'll be in my heart" out of iPhone speakers.
"It was a s--- show on Monday, it's a s--- show today," one said as she left, to no one in particular.
In all, uBiome cut 114 of the 229 people it employed, according to a person familiar with the situation — 42 from its US operations and 72 in Latin America.
See also: uBiome has stopped running its only lab test after the troubled poop-testing startup laid off half its workers[*]
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 13 2019, @08:41PM
well, that's just shitty
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 13 2019, @08:43PM (2 children)
FUCK YOU
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 13 2019, @08:44PM (1 child)
Now, it is time, to arm...THE BROWN MENACE
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 13 2019, @08:47PM
Our beloved monsters. Enjoy yourselves
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 14 2019, @03:28AM
https://medcitynews.com/2019/07/the-precipitous-decline-of-once-promising-microbiome-startup-ubiome/ [medcitynews.com]
So double billing and re-use of older tests to bump numbers. Yeah that's fraud.
"lied about their age" Simple lies turn into large ones. Almost always. If you see nothing wrong with lying all the time you do not see when you are actually doing something wrong.