BrainJar t1_j69c63d wrote on January 28, 2023 at 6:03 PM

Reply to comment by drawkbox in Managers Are Already Trying to Bust eBay's First Union, Organizers Say by Sorin61

I don't disagree with how heinous this was, but this was two CEO's ago...nearly every VP and C-Suite leader has been replaced since then. Anyone below that level, besides the dipshits that were directly involved didn't have any idea how stupid the CEO and Physical Security team were being. There are very few leaders that remain from this time too, and none of them were in the direct leadership chain of that CEO. What you're trying to tie together at the end misses the mark of the current state of affairs at the company. This was just one isolated and very stupid thing.

In addition, TCGPlayer is an affiliate of eBay and only recently purchased by eBay. Saying that their batshit crazy stuff with the Union (and I agree that anything that they're doing to try to keep that office from unionizing is just plain stupid, in addition to being illegal) is associated with eBay is a misnomer. Sure, they're a part of eBay, but they have kept their entire leadership and operations separate from eBay operations.

drawkbox t1_j69foob wrote on January 28, 2023 at 6:27 PM

True, though culturally maybe some of that still lingers. This wasn't that long ago, January 2019.

Would TCGPlayer have done the same actions on Unions if they weren't part of eBay, I don't know.

I just think this is such a wild story that any mention of eBay makes me thing how messed up it was that a company at the top did this to a freaking newsletter.

BrainJar t1_j69kb0a wrote on January 28, 2023 at 6:58 PM

Thanks to Devin’s actions, the entire company has a new set of annual training that they have to go through, specific to this corrupt asshole. On top of that, they have quarterly acknowledgement of ethics training that they have conduct with their teams. And no, there’s no “culture” lingering related to Devin. Four years is a long time in company timeframes.

I worked there for ten years and I don’t think some affiliate that is only loosely connected with eBay takes its lead from eBay on unions. Prior to eBay, I was a shop steward in our Union, and I’m always looking out for that bias. I didn’t hear anything like that at eBay. So, no, it’s conjecture and contrived to sensationalize their name recognition in the story.

drawkbox t1_j69l2rk wrote on January 28, 2023 at 7:03 PM

Well if it is better now that is good. eBay always has a little bit of sketch going on, not necessarily the company but some of the market but that is the nature of things, that is why newsletters and ratings and external curation is good where needed. However, companies even ones with ethics training will still have pockets of bad people, just like here. It is usually never the whole thing or most people, always a cabal.