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eBay to pay $3 million after employees sent fetal pig, funeral wreath to Boston couple (www.usatoday.com)
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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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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Wow, that's fantastic to hear.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Source on that last one?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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

Fuck these assholes, that's vile.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Regulate tech companies

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

wonder why they're getting fined

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