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by hn_throwaway_99 2416 days ago
Remember when Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, blamed an employee's new baby's health issues on benefit cuts [1]? He may not have had "full access", but he basically blamed an employee's family health issues, publicly, as the reason for employee benefit cuts.

[1] https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/02/tim-armstrong-blame...

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Your sentence confuses me. Did he blame the cuts on the baby? Or the baby's issues on the cuts?
It’s in the linked article. The CEO (after a great financial quarter) announced benefits cuts, blaming costs and using as examples two “distressed babies” that cost the company $1M each. Armstrong was making $12M, by the way, so in other words, 12 Distressed Babies per year in compensation.