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eBay to pay $3 million after employees sent fetal pig, funeral wreath to Boston couple (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 19 points 9 months 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.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Wow, that's fantastic to hear.

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months 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

[-] robotica@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Source on that last one?

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months 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

[-] robotica@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months 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

[-] Subtlysubtle@sffa.community 11 points 9 months ago

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

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 points 9 months ago

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

Fuck these assholes, that's vile.

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Regulate tech companies

[-] sugartits@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

wonder why they're getting fined

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