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Not everybody has all the information to know whether a company is known for this kind of shit. I've heard a lot of stories about PayPal screwing over sellers in particular by freezing their funds for no justified reason, but I can see people falling for the "they must have been doing something bad they aren't admitting" you always see in response to anyone complaining about some authority imposing arbitrary punishments on them.
My personal gripe with PayPal is, I was once relying on income from sales through them, and had withdrawn money to my bank that I needed to pay my rent. A customer filed a spurious dispute (later resolved in my favor) on a sale that was only a tiny portion of that, and their response was to immediately reverse the whole completed bank transfer. So I almost missed paying rent and had to scramble to figure it out at the last minute.
Anyway, fuck PayPal, sympathy to all their victims.
Anyone applying to PayPal can google it before they accept an offer.
When people get scammed, it's not their fault just because there are conceivable ways they could have learned it was a scam.
Being surprised about having an offer rescinded from a company that’s widely known for being a shit company absolutely bears some personal responsibility. It’s not 100% - but it’s also not 0%.
How are you commenting in /workreform while talking about PayPal like it's just one of those thorny bushes you gotta walk all the way around?
Like, they shouldn't be allowed to do this. Period. Among other things.
this should be repeated more often.