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Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by jeeyoungk on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:04PM (#27976924)
So the executives who ordered this are getting away with this?
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by ilamont on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:19PM (#27977092)
Yes. Even though they were "implicated in some of the text messages captured by the FBI":

Defendant Devin Wenig, then Chief Executive Officer of eBay, and Defendant Steven Wymer, then Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer of eBay, consistently tracked EcommerceBytes' reporting, and became increasingly enraged by what they perceived as the Steiners' negative coverage of eBay and the upper echelons of the corporation.

"Natick couple terrorized in eBay pig-mask campaign sue auction giant"

https://www.universalhub.com/2021/natick-couple-terrorized-e...

Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:07PM (#27976961)
They claim not to have known about the harassment and stalking.
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by adamc on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:12PM (#27977004)
Which is a reminder: If you are going to do unethical things, make sure you can prove that your bosses ordered it. Otherwise, in addition to being a rat, you will likely twist in the wind.
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by OminousWeapons on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:17PM (#27977080)
Yup, always note your concerns and objections via email and make sure to CC the appropriate people.
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by Lammy on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:17PM (#27977074)
"Let's take this offline"
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by andruby on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:31PM (#27977223)
I once worked on a startup founded by lawyers and they would do this all the time. Never put things in writing that they might be flexible on later. I hated that part.
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by smcl on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:03PM (#27978660)
Follow up with an email (or message or whatever the medium is) confirming the agreed-upon outcome of the offline discussion? This is good practice anyway, summarising what was said over an hour long discussion can often reveal people came away with very different interpretation of what was agreed upon
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by triceratops on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:26PM (#27977160)
"Just to recap our conversation earlier..."
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by trhway on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:26PM (#27977166)
take the notes, conspicuously, and accompanied by several "come again please, i'm taking notes" if over the phone, ostensibly to make sure that you're doing it to carry the Leader's order in all the glorious details. Kind of James Comey or North Korea style. Years ago, an acquaintance, a former captain of Soviet Army who served at the place pretty intense even during the peace time, had some funny stories how such habit saved his bacon on various occasions and it made me remember that advice.
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by adamc on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:47PM (#28041710)
Yes. Take notes, then send them back via email or some other mechanism that can be discovered later.
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by HoverSausage on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:17PM (#27977076)
It's their job to know
Re:Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberst... by na85 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:42PM (#27977363)
Yes there's a separate set of laws for the wealthy corporate class.