Report: Whitman had altercation with eBay employee

[Seneca]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The campaign of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is responding to a published report that claims she had an altercation with an eBay employee three years ago.

The confrontation led to a confidential settlement between eBay and the employee, who remains with the company. Whitman was eBay's CEO at the time.

The New York Times posted a story to its website Monday based on anonymous sources. It says that in June 2007, Whitman pushed the employee, Young Mi Kim, who was helping her prepare for a media interview.

The story says the employee threatened to sue but later agreed to a mediated settlement.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iVapOHBuR3CaiQCY5ngvxvVO7FLwD9GBD5PG0

[truedelphi]

1. Mean Meg... n/t

[JeffersonChick]

2. Doesn't surprise me at all.

[Seneca]

3. Same here

Billionaire narcissists and their paid spokesparrots.

[NYC_SKP]

4. K & R nt

[JDPriestly]

5. Hopefully, this ends Whitman's campaign.

Whitman campaign spokeswoman Sarah Pompei issued a statement defending the Republican candidate as a "results-focused boss." She says it is not unusual to have a "verbal dispute in a high-pressure working environment."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iVapOHBuR3CaiQCY5ngvxvVO7FLwD9GBD5PG0

Usually, you don't get a mediated settlement if a dispute remains verbal. There is no danger of emotional distress damages. I don't even think you can claim Worker's Comp for verbal insults or that sort of thing. I might be wrong about that, but I don't think you can.

Wow! That's inexcusable. Why would a person with that kind of lack of self-control and maturity run for governor. That's just asking for trouble. This is worse than even having some sort of irresponsible affair. This makes me feel a little frightened. In all my working years, I was never physically shoved by anyone in the workplace. I had other very bad experiences, but was never shoved. Was anyone else shoved by a boss in the workplace? That is practically unheard of. Shocking.

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Seneca]

7. Morning schadenfreude