eBay to pay $3 million after employees sent fetal pig, funeral wreath to Boston couple

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/11/ebay-settlement-harassment-employees-ina-david-steiner/72196339007/

eBay to pay $3 million after employees sent fetal pig, funeral wreath to Boston couple::The online auction company called the actions of its previous employees, which also consisted of social media threats, "wrong and reprehensible."

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JustZ@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y (7 replies)

This case is absolutely bonkers. I posted about it a while back. The executives involved should be in prison.

Technus@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 2y (6 replies)

They are:

The investigation led to felony convictions for seven individuals, all former eBay employees or contractors, and the ringleader was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison.

JustZ@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Wow, that's fantastic to hear.

fossphi@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Not even 5 years. It's a fucking joke. These bastards were heinous. Heck, the c suite at the top also might have been aware. How does a company survive after this? An ordinary individual would have been sued and jailed to oblivion

robotica@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Source on that last one?

fossphi@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I meant if a regular person did crimes of this magnitude, they would have gotten harsher punishment. Which I think these executives also more than deserve

robotica@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I know what you meant, but do you have a source for your claim?

fossphi@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Nope. I guess I shouldn't have implied it with that certainty. It was more of a horrific repulsion from what the ebay execs did and I felt like they got off too easy

Subtlysubtle@sffa.community · 12 pts · 2y

That's insane. It sounds like ebay must have a toxic culture to let that happen.

brsrklf@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 2y

A funeral wreath and a book on surviving the death of a spouse.

Fuck these assholes, that's vile.

AshMan85@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Regulate tech companies

sugartits@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I'm pretty sure these actions are already illegal ...

MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz · 1 pts · 2y

wonder why they're getting fined