another Bill Cobb moment at eBay Live!’s Gala
Then there was my other favorite Bill Cobb moment from eBay Live!
If you’ve ever attended the Gala event at Live, it is a sight to behold. Who could resist walking through a greeting line of hundreds of eBay employees all cheering you on? I have to tell you this is one of the great things about eBay’s Gala night. It’s almost a throwback from the 80’s group dynamic seminars. When you walk into the hall, there are litterally hundreds of staffers who have spent the better part of two hours cheering every single person who walked in those doors. They clap until their hands are red. They cheer until their voices are hoarse. It’s a great warm feeling for every eBay seller and buyer to walk in and be famous for that one moment in time.
Anticipating yet another great time at the Gala, we stood in line, rather than go to dinner with our powerseller buddies, and we stood in line and stood and walked and stood and finally just a mere mile from the entrance to the gala event, it hit me. There’s a bathroom right over there and I can make it. I can run in and run out and get back in line. So off I flew. I came running back out, expecting to jump back in, but no. One of our friendly eBay staffers said, no cuts missy, get back in line.
I guess by now I was the second to the last person in the parade of people who entered the hall with the cheering and screaming eBay staffers. By now I would have been overcome with anger (and I was) watching my group up there at the top of the escalator and me at the end of the line… but just as I entered the line, I was greeted by that oh so wonderful face of Mr. Wonderful. That’s right it was Bill Cobb. I shook his hand, he remembered me from days of late, and a big smile came across my face. (damnit – I was planning to be miserable, mad and angry, after all wasn’t I just about the last person in the door!).
Nevertheless, that was a fine Bill Cobb moment.
Thanks for that Bill, you’re a trooper. I have to applaud any CEO, or VP for standing in a group of staffers cheering on customers. I guess if I made a gazillion bucks a year I would do it too. You can always get bandaids for those tired feet later on, eh.
Don’t forget next year, hope they do that cheering thing again. Just love that!