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Seems like senior managers and directors. I don't think these are fall guys. They seem like they were personally responsible for these things. I know corpo speak invents fancy job titles, but I don't think it's a situation where someone's personal assistant is being used as a scapegoat. These people should have known better and had other options. I did see that one upper exec had to pay but I didn't see any outline for what exactly they were charged with. I wish the articles did a better job of going into the details of punishments vs charges but I was just pointing out that actual time is being done since the title doesn't mention it.
I'm not an expert at corpo terminology either, so maybe "middle management" is wrong, but I'm certain "senior director" is still not part of the executive ranks.
Wikipedia has an overview about all of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal
I don't think the employees/managers were just fall guys, but I don't believe for a second the execs knew nothing about what they did. And I find it suspicious that the employees seemingly plead guilty without a lawyer, as the article you're quoting says.
Director is upper management, one step below executive and typically report directly to a C-suite member.
It means different things at different firms, but as a management (rather than board) role, it's as @village604@adultswim.fan says.
Source: I was one. Now I'm in a senior tech staff role in a very different organization. Far less of a snake pit.
Thank you, I edited my comment.
I certainly didn't mean to indicate csuite went to jail or anything, but it's fair to disagree with my classification. I'm not super involved with that sort of thing. Will edit my comment to reflect that so that no one takes away the wrong thing.
Appreciate the wiki link. I kinda just clicked around on site and didn't bother to search elsewhere.
I'm totally open to the idea that higher ups got away with a lot. They tend to, and likely even in this case where people are doing time they still got off way too lightly.