eBay fined $3M for insane harassment campaign against couple that included sending them live spiders

[nutella_forever]

EBay to pay $3M after employees sent live spiders, cockroaches to couple https://t.co/8z5NWoKDnM pic.twitter.com/MX2hDLmACP
- New York Post (@nypost) January 11, 2024

Couple David and Ina Steiner, who ran the online newsletter EcommerceBytes, had upset so much the eBay executives with their coverage that they launched a “petrifying” harassment

Comments

[willardwright]

Jesus christ what the fuck

also they should pay a lot more, this is small change to them, I bet

[xdecadentx]

Jesus Christ that's unhinged. That poor couple. All for a blog post??

I have had someone who has been harassing me on Twitter for 8 years pop up again yesterday. People are fucking terrifying.

[umilicious]

I hope you can stay safe and it doesn’t escalate. It’s not like Twitter’s going to do anything about it except maybe give the harasser a high five and some ad revenue

[xdecadentx]

Thanks. Yeah I gave up on Twitter doing anything about it about 6 banned usernames ago. He just keeps coming back with a different one and starting it all over again. I block the name and try and move on.

[anterrabre]

Damn. Apparently you're living rent free in his head, and some people would rather lash out than get help. Stay safe, bb.

[umilicious]

From the press release:

The seven convicted eBay employees and contractors include Baugh, who was sentenced to 57 months in prison in September 2022; David Harville, former Director of Global Resiliency, who was sentenced to 24 months in prison in September 2022; Stephanie Popp, former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, who was sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2022; Philip Cooke, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home confinement in July 2021; Stephanie Stockwell and Veronica Zea, a former Manager of Global Intelligence and a contract intelligence analyst, respectively, who were each sentenced to one year in home confinement in October and November 2022. Brian Gilbert, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.

Damn, and here I thought the management teams I worked with were a mess!

[ahnaaah]

I can only imagine the absolutely nightmare of work place culture they had at the company if the senior managers thought that was a great idea over a random newsletter

[radioepidemic__]

And here I thought it was just men. I could never work at somewhere this toxic.

[pulseraroja]

the woman contract worker did an interview with the nyt, very interesting

[plumeberry]

what the actual fuck is wrong with people

[yousaidlog]

$3m is nothing. I'd need that amount each month just to recover from the spiders alone. This is insanity.