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Had it not been for the "boring teaching" by Oxford teachers, <keyword id="3919492" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="faiz-siddiqui">Faiz Siddiqui</keyword> could have had a high-flying career as an international commercial lawyer. This is what this Indian-origin student who studied modern history at <keyword id="30725" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Oxford-university">Oxford University</keyword> back in 2000, claimed as he decided to sue the college 16 years later. 
 
He blamed getting a second class degree and loss of earnings in his career as a lawyer on Oxford staff's "negligent" teaching of his specialist subject course on Indian imperial history. Siddiqui now suffers from depression and insomnia. He equates everything that has gone in his life to his "disappointing examination results". 
 The Sunday Guardian reported - Siddiqui's barrister Roger Mallalieu informed the court that the problem came down to four of the seven staff teaching Asian history being on sabbatical leave at the same time during the 1999-2000 academic year. He singled out the "boring" standard of tuition that Siddiqui had received from <keyword id="3919498" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="david-washbrook">David Washbrook</keyword>, an expert on the history of southern India between the 18th and 20th centuries. "There is no personal criticism of Washbrook. Our target is on the university's back for allowing this to happen," Mallalieu further told the court. He claimed that the eminent historian's teaching had suffered from the "intolerable" pressure of the staff shortages on the course. 
 Oxford University, meanwhile, argued that the claim is baseless and should be struck out because of the number of years that have passed since Siddiqui graduated. <keyword id="3919494" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="julian-milford">Julian Milford</keyword>, the university's barrister, denied that Siddiqui's case had any substance even as he admitted that "circumstances were difficult" during that year. 
 
A judgment in the matter is expected later this month.

An Indian-origin student sues Oxford University for 'boring teaching' that 'ruined his career'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 41-year-old sued his parents hoping to force them to support him financially for life.</li><li>Faiz Siddiqui cited a "dependency" he said his parents caused by funding him for 20 years.</li></ul>A UK court dismissed a case brought by a 41-year-old against his wealthy parents in which he aimed to force them to keep sending him money.Faiz Siddiqui argued that his parents should be made to keep funding him for life, reversing their decision to stop sending him money after 20 years, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oxford-educated-lawyer-loses-court-battle-to-force-parents-to-pay-his-way-lczxvm8sm">The Times of London reported</a>.But the Court of Appeal dismissed the case, saying that "whatever the moral position might be, parents should be under no legal duty to support their adult children, however grave their need," according to The Times.The court was told that Siddiqui, an Oxford University graduate, has been unemployed for 20 years.His parents had previously given him money, and let him live in their £1 million ($1.36 million) London apartment, both the Times and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10157107/Faiz-Siddiqui-test-case-Court-Appeal-rejects-sons-bid-force-parents-pay-maintenance.html">MailOnline reported</a>.It is not clear exactly when his parents stopped giving him money.Siddiqui tried to argue that them doing so for 20 years "nurtured his dependency", leaving him strugglingwithout their support, The Times reported.The parents' lawyer said, according to the Mail Online: "It goes without saying that the parents are devastated that they are being put through this ordeal by their son and that they are being put to such enormous expense, particularly when set against their historic and ongoing generosity towards him."Siddiqui <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oxford-graduate-faiz-siddiqui-sues-for-1m-over-his-inexplicable-21-2017-11?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">previously tried to sue</a> Oxford University for not giving him what he said was too low a grade in his degree. That case was <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42974641">dismissed in 2018</a>.

UK court throws out case from 41-year-old who sued his parents hoping to force them to support him financially for life

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6355315" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elon-musk">Elon Musk</keyword> appeared to make another jab at one of his main rivals, <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> CEO <keyword id="191583" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jeff-Bezos">Jeff Bezos</keyword>.</li><li>"Give my regards to your puppet master," Musk told The <keyword id="79961" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Washington-Post">Washington Post</keyword>.</li><li>That seemed to be a reference to Bezos' ownership of The Post.</li></ul>It appears that the Elon Musk-Jeff Bezos feud is still raging.The two tech moguls have recently been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-net-worth-worlds-richest-tesla-amazon-stock-2021-1">flip-flopping for the title of the richest person in the world</a>, but they also have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-rivalry-history-timeline-2020-7">a years-long feud</a> that began over their competing outer-space ambitions. It seems Musk hasn't forgotten.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/23/musk-tesla-texas/">The Washington Post's Faiz Siddiqui</a> published a report on Tuesday about how the demands on Musk's time - including his travel schedule, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-girlfriend-grimes-relationship-photos-2018-8">personal life</a>, and focus on <keyword id="6360701" type="DEFINITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="spacex">SpaceX</keyword>, his rocket company - were affecting <keyword id="107096" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tesla">Tesla</keyword>, leading to criticism of his management of the business.While reporting the story - which The Post said was based on interviews with a dozen current and former Tesla employees, investors, and analysts - the publication reached out to Musk by email and received a brief response."Give my regards to your puppet master," Musk said.The comment appeared to be a reference to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-post-insiders-speculate-jeff-bezos-plans-2021-2?r=ah-sub">Bezos' ownership of The Post</a> - he bought the paper in 2013 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html">for $250 million in cash</a>.Both Bezos and The Post have repeatedly said he has no influence on editorial decisions. But that hasn't stopped critics from conflating the billionaire tech founder and the nearly 150-year-old publication, the most vocal among them former President Donald Trump. As president, Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-amazon-washington-post-war-with-jeff-bezos-2018-4">frequently targeted Bezos and The Post</a>, tweeting that the paper spread "fake news" and served as Amazon's "chief lobbyist."With this latest barb, Musk is adding fuel to a rivalry with Bezos that dates back to at least 2004. Over the past 15 years, Musk has leveled a string of criticisms at Bezos and his rocket company, <keyword id="199288" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Blue-Origin">Blue Origin</keyword>. He's called Bezos a copycat over some of his business ventures, described Amazon as a monopoly, and appeared to make some digs at Bezos' age.For his part, Bezos has repeatedly critiqued SpaceX and Musk's goal of sending humans to Mars - Bezos has described the idea as "un-motivating.""Go live on the top of Mount Everest for a year first and see if you like it, because it's a garden paradise compared to Mars," Bezos <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-mount-everest-challenge-mars-spacex-elon-musk-2019-3">said in 2019</a>.

Elon Musk appeared to make another dig at rival Jeff Bezos over a report that Musk's attention is drifting away from Tesla

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul><li>Faiz Siddiqui, 39, said that his failure to get a first-class Oxford degree held him back.</li><li>He attempted to sue the university for damages over his missed career opportunities.</li><li>The judge said his lacklustre career was his own fault, and suggested that he "lower his expectations."</li></ul> An Oxford graduate, who tried to sue the university for £1 million ($1.4 million) because it gave him a lower degree result than he thinks he deserves, has had his case thrown out of court.Faiz Siddiqui, 39, missed his goal of getting a first-class degree after studying law at Brasenose College in 2000.He said he missed out on a glittering and lucrative career as a result, and tried to take Oxford to court, claiming that it was their poor teaching which denied him the qualification he allegedly deserved.But, despite the case reaching the High Court in London, the judge threw out the case on Wednesday, <a href="http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2018/184.html">according to legal documents reviewed by Business Insider</a>.Mr Justice Foksett said Siddiqui had failed to prove his case, and was essentially responsible for his own poor academic performance.News outlets including The Times newspaper pictured Siddiqui at a hearing earlier in the trial:Siddiqui was offered a training contract with law firm Clifford Chance after graduating and worked for a string of other law firms. He also had a spell at Ernst and Young, though he was later dismissed and is now unemployed.It fell far short of the career he desired: Siddiqui wanted a post-graduate qualification from Harvard, and envisioned making large sums of money from subsequent employment.Earlier in the trial, Siddiqui's lawyer described his client's 2:1 grade (an "upper second-class" degree, one below first-class) as an "inexplicable failure" which was cited as a reason he failed to get accepted as prestigious schools.However, the judge ruled that there were other factors at play.Oxford admitted that there were some flaws in its teaching during the time Siddiqui was a student, but argued that it wasn't reasonable to conclude that these faults were legally responsible for a students' lacklustre career 17 years later.Foksett agreed. In the conclusion to his judgment, he noted that Siddiqui has "a firmly entrenched belief that all his post-Oxford problems lie with what occurred there. I have been unable to accept that this is so."He suggested instead that he "lower his expectations at least for the time being and start using his undoubted intelligence to create a worthwhile future for himself."<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-launch-tesla-roadster-mars-spacex-falcon-heavy-2018-2">Watch SpaceX launch a Tesla Roadster to Mars on the Falcon Heavy rocket - and why it matters</a></h3> <div> </div> </div></hr>

A student tried to sue Oxford for £1 million for not giving him a good enough grade - but the judge told him it was his own fault

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">AP Photo/Richard DrewUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and other employees at the New York Stock Exchange on May 10.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Partying at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/uber">Uber</a>'s headquarters in San Francisco started at 5:30 a.m. on May 10, the day the company launched its initial public offering (IPO), <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/17/uber-rang-its-ipo-with-champagne-mimosas-then-hangover-began/?utm_term=.7fa414f8e788">The Washington Post</a>'s Faiz Siddiqui reported.</li><li>San Francisco employees reportedly started drinking in the office during the morning and continued throughout the afternoon.</li><li>The festivities in San Francisco led one employee to resign after what The Post described as "a verbal outburst and dispute with colleagues" and forced the company to stop another employee from driving home.</li><li>A party at a satellite office in California was shut down, according to The Post.</li><li><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/uber-stock">Uber</a> did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>Partying at Uber's headquarters in San Francisco started at 5:30 a.m. on May 10, the day the company launched its initial public offering (IPO), <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/17/uber-rang-its-ipo-with-champagne-mimosas-then-hangover-began/?utm_term=.7fa414f8e788">The Washington Post</a>'s Faiz Siddiqui reported.San Francisco employees reportedly started drinking in the office during the morning and continued throughout the afternoon, spraying champagne and consuming liquor that had been stored in their desks since Travis Kalanick, one of the company's co-founders, was CEO. (Kalanick was replaced by Dara Khosrowshahi in 2017.)The festivities in San Francisco led one employee to resign after what The Post described as "a verbal outburst and dispute with colleagues" and forced the company to stop another employee from driving home, according to The Post. A party at a satellite office in California was reportedly shut down.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ceo-khosrowshahi-bonus-120-billion-ipo-2019-4">Dara Khosrowshahi hasn't yet earned his $100 million-plus stock bonus for when Uber hits a $120 billion valuation - but there's still time for him to do it</a>Uber did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.The Post's report of Uber's IPO-day celebrations recalls the boisterous and aggressive culture during Kalanick's tenure <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-company-scandals-and-controversies-2017-11#february-2017-a-female-engineer-who-used-to-work-at-uber-publishes-a-blog-post-about-sexual-harassment-and-gender-inequality-at-the-company-22">described by employees</a> who said the company had created a hostile, overly-competitive environment that was particularly harmful toward women.Concerns about Uber's workplace culture contributed to Kalanick's departure and the hiring of Khosrowshahi, who has emphasized cultural change during his tenure. He outlined this goal in a 2017 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ubers-new-cultural-norms-dara-khosrowshahi/">LinkedIn post</a>, in which he wrote, "We do the right thing. Period."Before Khosrowshahi took over, Uber hired former US Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the company's culture, and in a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-holder-report-results-investigation-harassment-bro-culture-2017-6">13-page report</a>, Holder's recommendations included banning alcohol consumption during work hours and "de-emphasizing alcohol as a component of work events." 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Employees at Uber's headquarters reportedly started drinking before 6 a.m. on the day of its IPO, and a party at another office was shut down

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="107096" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tesla">Tesla</keyword> employees tested positive for the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> after Tesla resumed work at its factories, the Washington Post reports. </li><li>The company defied local shelter-in-place orders to restart manufacturing amid the pandemic in May. </li><li>There's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-lockdowns-successful-evidence-from-around-the-world-2020-4">clear evidence that lockdown efforts and social distancing helped slow the virus' spread</a> — and that many <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/shutdowns-prevented-60-million-coronavirus-infections-us-study-finds/">US deaths could have been prevented.</a> </li></ul>"Several" Tesla employees tested positive for the coronavirus after <keyword id="6355315" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elon-musk">Elon Musk</keyword> defied local shelter-in-place orders to resume production at the company's factories, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/09/tesla-factory-coronavirus/">the Washington Post's Faiz Siddiqui reported Tuesday. </a>Managers held meetings to inform employees of the cases and that the affected people were told not to come in to work, according to two anonymous employees who spoke to the paper.Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.The positive cases are exactly what varying forms of shelter-in-place orders around the country — decried by Musk as fascist —were designed to prevent.The billionaire took to Twitter at the very beginning of the pandemic in March to call the panic surrounding it "dumb." He doubled down on that take as deaths skyrocketed, saying "FREE AMERICA NOW."And once Tesla's business was threatened by shelter-in-place orders in Alameda County, which contains its Fremont factory, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-rant-coronavirus-shelter-place-orders-fascist-unamerican-imprisoning-2020-4">Musk launched into a profanity-laced tirade on Tesla's first quarter earnings call.</a>"Frankly, I would call it forcible imprisoning of people in their homes against all of, their constitutional rights, in my opinion," he said. "It's breaking people's freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why they came to America or built this country. What the f---. Excuse me. Outrage. Outrage."Tesla also filed a lawsuit against local officials about the lockdown that was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-drops-lawsuit-against-alameda-county-california-over-coronavirus-shutdown-2020-5">eventually dropped.</a>In the six weeks since, US coronavirus deaths have topped 116,000. Researchers have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-lockdowns-successful-evidence-from-around-the-world-2020-4">found clear evidence that lockdown orders are effective in slowing transmission</a>, and that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/shutdowns-prevented-60-million-coronavirus-infections-us-study-finds/">many US deaths were preventable. </a> According to the Washington Post, Tesla's May 18 agreement with Alameda leaders to reopen includes a provision to report all positive cases. However, that does not include the days when Tesla workers were in the factory in defiance of the orders.In early June, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21277336/tesla-covid-19-buffalo-ny-gigafactory-positive-test-panasonic">The Verge reported</a> that at least four workers at Tesla's US facilities, including one employee at the company's joint factory with Panasonic in Upstate New York, which also re-opened in May, had tested positive for COVID-19.For the time being, Tesla workers are working with more space between each other, regular temperature checks, and other guidelines as per the company's "return to work playbook" released in May."We will continue to put people back to work in a safe and responsible manner," Tesla said in the playbook.What's more, Tesla's own environmental impact report, published Monday, found a dramatic decrease in air pollution — something Musk has championed — thanks to shelter-in-place orders."It is not hard to imagine that many cities could become electric-only in the near future as they begin to witness the impact that ICE vehicles have on air quality," it said.

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An Indian-origin student sues Oxford University for 'boring teaching' that 'ruined his career'

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