eBay has been providing my health insurance for 18 years now. And the subjects of this article are multiple ranks above anyone I've ever interacted with. So feel free to dismiss the following as self-interest, ignorance, or both.
But the eBay corporate culture, at least as far as I've experienced it in the Salt Lake City office, is far healthier than anywhere else I've worked. It supports the front-line workers like the company assets we are and I have never had a jerk put in a supervisory position over me. And the only "culture of drinking" I'm aware of is free soda and juice in the vending machines.
Again, I can't speak to what goes on in the executive suites. But if the kind of sociopathy these clowns demonstrated infected the company as much as the writer suspects, I have to imagine it would manifest itself in exploitative customer-facing policies. And I truly don't feel we have any. (Yes, we charge a lot. But the fees are easy to find on our web site. If you think we're worth it, pay them. If you don't, don't.) At least, I've never felt the need to apologize for who I work for. And I'm very sensitive. :-)
The writer also neglects to mention the government's praise of the company's full and free cooperation in nailing these jerks. I dunno... seems relevant to me.
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eBay has been providing my health insurance for 18 years now. And the subjects of this article are multiple ranks above anyone I've ever interacted with. So feel free to dismiss the following as self-interest, ignorance, or both.
But the eBay corporate culture, at least as far as I've experienced it in the Salt Lake City office, is far healthier than anywhere else I've worked. It supports the front-line workers like the company assets we are and I have never had a jerk put in a supervisory position over me. And the only "culture of drinking" I'm aware of is free soda and juice in the vending machines.
Again, I can't speak to what goes on in the executive suites. But if the kind of sociopathy these clowns demonstrated infected the company as much as the writer suspects, I have to imagine it would manifest itself in exploitative customer-facing policies. And I truly don't feel we have any. (Yes, we charge a lot. But the fees are easy to find on our web site. If you think we're worth it, pay them. If you don't, don't.) At least, I've never felt the need to apologize for who I work for. And I'm very sensitive. :-)
The writer also neglects to mention the government's praise of the company's full and free cooperation in nailing these jerks. I dunno... seems relevant to me.
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