Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic
Inexcusable. Sad. Horrible.<p>The two questions in my mind are:<p>First, how could something this horrible happen at such a high level at such a prominent company? I mean, eBay is not some rinky-dinky business run by fly-by-night operators in a shady part of town. We're talking about a well-known publicly traded company that is a component of the S&P 500 with a market capitalization in the tens of billions of dollars. Auntie Tilly would be delighted to hear her niece got a job offer at eBay after college.<p>Second, is this kind of horrendous antisocial behavior ("we can do whatever we want this side of legal with impunity") <i>representative</i> of behavioral patterns at the higher levels of large, prominent, powerful companies? Or is eBay just an exception, the proverbial bad apple in a basket of mostly good apples? I would hope it's the latter.