I used to work at a warehouse. I mainly was in the picking department. Every once in a while we had a meeting where all of the workers stopped their work and made the long walk to the lobby from wherever they were in the humongous building and all sat down for about an hour give and take depending on the meeting importance. Half of the meeting really did pertain to all of us workers, and sometimes we could have a questions and answers segment. The other half of the meeting was devoted to the company's dashboard. This is where they talked about most of the numbers, jargon, and other things the average workers had nothing to do with, and nothing really pertaining to workers moving boxes, picking or shipping. Some people actually fell asleep at the meetings sometimes because they were working hard and got this chance to sit down in a comfortable room.
Also at this time, an approximate 150 workers per shift were not of course producing, or getting work done for the company. The company knows or is suppsed to know what is best for the company, and the workers did not complain because they got a break from their work.
Work is work at a job. An average worker works his or her shift, and goes home. Once the day is done, it is done. The work is not anything that the worker owns, and will be there tomorrow, even if he is not.
So what is happening here at Ebay? We are at a board meeting now when we log in. We have numbers and performance put in front of us, and everything is a command. List, Add Item Specifics, Send Offer, Relist, and so on. Everything seems a little less fun, and of course we have to learn to re-navigate which takes up time. The suggestion of the seller hub in this thread is good, the check boxes are back. I can now bulk unlist again, however the time left on the listing is gone and I have to click on each listing to see how much time is left. It is clear that Ebay wants to collect more and more 35 cents for automatic re-listing and I am sure one day it will be mandatory that a listing cannot be ended.
There is some good in the new way. It will not change back, even if 95 of the sellers leave bad feedback about it, so why complain or leave feedback. We will just have to get used to it, maybe it will work out.
I do find it funny that everything else about the site did not change. They did not change the way buyers see items, because the buyers of course are very important to Ebay, and Ebay would not like to disrupt them. However if 95 percent of sellers struggle with this new way, spend time looking at statistics and commands that prevent them from actually listing items, the buyers may not have as much to buy. Will those statistics also be put on our selling screen, for us to feel responsible about the decline of Ebay's sales and stock prices?
