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Sad? Horrible? How about batshit insane! C-suits going after nobodies is, well... this. I mean, that must have been some crazy amounts of coke and bad judgement

by arpa 6y ago

Sad? Horrible? How about batshit insane! C-suits going after nobodies is, well... this. I mean, that must have been some crazy amounts of coke and bad judgements all around, to get SIX seriously unhinged individuals to the top of eBay of all the places. How does it even happen? I mean i've seen some amoral corporate bullshit, and shady shit, strays into "not strictly legal" and "how can legal cover our ass?", but this, this is crazy in literal sense.

__s 6y ago
How does it happen? Someone passes around a blog. Someone else jokes "wouldn't it be funny if we...". Someone else says "Hey, I'm bored, we have loads of cash & free time, sounds like a fun prank!" Not hard to lose touch with the reality of what one's doing
- fennecfoxen 6y ago
  Article discusses how they were not joking but, instead, paranoid that she was getting funding from Amazon, their competitor.
- runawaybottle 6y ago
  Yeah, and just add some booze to that. The recipe is simple.
setgree 6y ago
Pity the person who takes their work so seriously they'd send a bloody pig mask in the mail for it -- for a faceless, corporate behemoth like ebay, no less.
runawaybottle 6y ago
Alcohol and drugs is always behind stuff like this.
gameswithgo 6y ago
this is a world where the financial industry repeatedly gets caught doing fraud that causes worldwide recessions, where oil companies spend billions lying to people so they can keep polluting. companies acting badly seems completely normal to me.
- meowface 6y ago
  True, but typically it's your standard white collar sociopathy, though, not literal horror movie-level obsessive stalking and abuse. Even aside from the obviously horrendous ethics, this sort of behavior is just incomprehensibly outlandish and grotesque. It's not only psychopathic but literally psychotic. >Angered by items that appeared in a e-commerce newsletter, six former employees of eBay sent the publishers, a couple living in Massachusetts, live cockroaches and spiders, pornography, a bloody pigface mask, a preserved pig fetus and a funeral wreath, and attempted to secretly install a tracking device on the couple's car, federal authorities allege in criminal charges unsealed on Monday. [0] As the prosecutor said in the NPR article, this is abject psychological terrorism against a random middle-aged blogging couple by eBay's former "senior director of safety and security" and "director of global resilience", among others. You couldn't write this shit. [0] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/877659807/feds-former-ebay-employees-sent-newsletter-writers-roaches-spiders-and-pornograp https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/877659807/feds-former-ebay-em...

by arpa 6y ago

__s 6y ago

How does it happen? Someone passes around a blog. Someone else jokes "wouldn't it be funny if we...". Someone else says "Hey, I'm bored, we have loads of cash & free time, sounds like a fun prank!" Not hard to lose touch with the reality of what one's doing

fennecfoxen 6y ago
Article discusses how they were not joking but, instead, paranoid that she was getting funding from Amazon, their competitor.
runawaybottle 6y ago
Yeah, and just add some booze to that. The recipe is simple.

setgree 6y ago

Pity the person who takes their work so seriously they'd send a bloody pig mask in the mail for it -- for a faceless, corporate behemoth like ebay, no less.

runawaybottle 6y ago

Alcohol and drugs is always behind stuff like this.

gameswithgo 6y ago

this is a world where the financial industry repeatedly gets caught doing fraud that causes worldwide recessions, where oil companies spend billions lying to people so they can keep polluting. companies acting badly seems completely normal to me.

meowface 6y ago
True, but typically it's your standard white collar sociopathy, though, not literal horror movie-level obsessive stalking and abuse. Even aside from the obviously horrendous ethics, this sort of behavior is just incomprehensibly outlandish and grotesque. It's not only psychopathic but literally psychotic. >Angered by items that appeared in a e-commerce newsletter, six former employees of eBay sent the publishers, a couple living in Massachusetts, live cockroaches and spiders, pornography, a bloody pigface mask, a preserved pig fetus and a funeral wreath, and attempted to secretly install a tracking device on the couple's car, federal authorities allege in criminal charges unsealed on Monday. [0] As the prosecutor said in the NPR article, this is abject psychological terrorism against a random middle-aged blogging couple by eBay's former "senior director of safety and security" and "director of global resilience", among others. You couldn't write this shit. [0] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/877659807/feds-former-ebay-employees-sent-newsletter-writers-roaches-spiders-and-pornograp https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/877659807/feds-former-ebay-em...