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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:39 PM Aug 2016

EpiPen’s Bresch: I got my first job at Mylan because of my dad — didn’t know what they did

Source: RawStory

25 AUG 2016 AT 18:40 ET

Mylan CEO Heather Bresch would never have been hired at the company had it not been for her father, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, NBC News reported.

Bresch herself admitted as much in a 2012 interview published in WV Living magazine. “I don’t deny that I got my first job at Mylan because of my dad,” she said at the time, adding, “I couldn’t have told you what Mylan did. I vaguely knew it had something to do with science.”

The magazine reported that Manchin mentioned to the company’s co-founder, Mike Puskar, that she was looking for a job. The senator then urged her to apply at the company for a data entry position 20 years ago.

“You should absolutely take it. Give it a year,” she recalled him saying.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/epipens-bresch-i-got-my-first-job-at-mylan-because-of-my-dad-didnt-know-what-they-did/

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EpiPen’s Bresch: I got my first job at Mylan because of my dad — didn’t know what they did (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2016 OP
One: forest444 Aug 2016 #1
Doesn't give you an excuse to use the company as your personal piggy bank! Initech Aug 2016 #2
They fixed her MBA too hollowdweller Aug 2016 #3
Holy crap is this woman trying to outdo Shkreli in shady business practices? Initech Aug 2016 #5
Apparently. n/t area51 Aug 2016 #7
Triply connected. Shows she's relied on being connected to 'fix' problems suffragette Aug 2016 #13
All this to get on top so she could drive her spiked heels into someone's neck. Nice. jtuck004 Aug 2016 #4
No one is more frustrated than you? Stryst Aug 2016 #6
No problem with her not knowing whistler162 Aug 2016 #8
Started in data entry and now she's CEO? Zing Zing Zingbah Aug 2016 #9
I wonder what the company got from the Senator in return? Honest.Dem Aug 2016 #10
she sounds like a fucking idiot JI7 Aug 2016 #11
She should no longer have a job as CEO bigwillq Aug 2016 #12
This is how it works for the families of America's rulers. Unit 001 Aug 2016 #14
This glowing profile of a known fraud and scam artist should be rightly ridiculed. Unit 001 Aug 2016 #15

forest444

(5,902 posts)
1. One:
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:44 PM
Aug 2016

Put her in a small room full of scorpions (not too venemous).

Two: wait for allergic reaction.

Three: administer EpiPen as needed.

Four: Deduct the price from her Cayman bank account (or is it Cook Islands?).

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
13. Triply connected. Shows she's relied on being connected to 'fix' problems
Sat Aug 27, 2016, 12:54 PM
Aug 2016

From your link:

The Post-Gazette's inquiry also revealed several big names in the West Virginia political community tied to Bresch. Most notably, her father, Joe Manchin, held the governorship, but Bresch also went to high school with WVU President Mike Garrison, and the college's largest benefactor, Milan Puskar, chaired Mylan at the time.

I wonder how many connections she's calling in now.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
4. All this to get on top so she could drive her spiked heels into someone's neck. Nice.
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 09:05 PM
Aug 2016

I thought at first she was like a greedy prostitute, but prostitutes mostly have morals, empathy, and many redeeming qualities. (Drag your mind back - I mean in their humanity and realistic approach to life).

Then I realized she was the female version of The Nasty Man(tm) that's running for pres, with none of those qualities.

Stryst

(714 posts)
6. No one is more frustrated than you?
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 09:15 PM
Aug 2016

What about the kids who are going to die of bee stings this year while you give yourself a $16 million dollar raise. You know, almost everyone is allergic to SOMETHING, and blow pipes are so cheap.

 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
8. No problem with her not knowing
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 05:34 AM
Aug 2016

what the company did 24 years ago when she went to work for them. Would have been nice if over those 24 years she HAD learned that the company wasn't a hog bank, "Pigs get fat; hogs get slaughtered."!

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
9. Started in data entry and now she's CEO?
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 08:35 AM
Aug 2016

Yeah, that doesn't happen for regular people. It pays to have a dad who is a senator.

 

Honest.Dem

(30 posts)
10. I wonder what the company got from the Senator in return?
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 11:55 AM
Aug 2016

I don't think for a minute that if you or I would have strolled-in Mylan and asked for an interview would have been hired on the spot and without knowing the first thing about the company. I'm so sure that the company received no promise or favor for hiring the Senator's daughter. Isn't politics with its special favors just grand?

 

Unit 001

(59 posts)
14. This is how it works for the families of America's rulers.
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 11:40 AM
Aug 2016

Get a bogus MBA with only half the credits.

Elevated to CEO even though the company knew the MBA is bogus.

Total lack of understanding or empathy for her fellow man.

America's ruling elite has become a corrupt, evil de facto monarchy. Our society is sick.

Bresch's daddy is a gutless, manipulative, deceptive, power-hungry asshole too.

 

Unit 001

(59 posts)
15. This glowing profile of a known fraud and scam artist should be rightly ridiculed.
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 12:36 PM
Aug 2016

WV Living is not a news or political publication, but they published this glowing profile of a known scam artist and fraud -- after her bogus MBA from WVU had been revealed.

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