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@jwz@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

Periodic reminder that "good billionaire" Marc Benioff is still a massive piece of shit.

In his keynote, Benioff thanked international Salesforce employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said...
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jwz: Periodic reminder that "good billionaire" Marc Benioff is still a massive piece of shit

In his keynote, Benioff thanked international Salesforce employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said that ICE agents were in the building to keep tabs on them. This is an example of "Silicon Valley CEOs and their inability to divorce ICE and the complete lack of understanding of why that makes them monsters," a Salesforce employee ...
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@happyborg@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 35 minutes ago

@jwz
Two things:

Was it a joke? I'm beginning to wonder.

It reminds me of a speech to shareholders by Gerald Ratner, the head of a UK jewelry chain. He literally said that they were making money by selling "crap" to his customers.

This was widely reported and it destroyed the business which bore his name.

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@radiant_moon@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@jwz Just the absolute worst, glad for the people pushing back internally

https://www.wired.com/story/letter-salesforce-employees-sent-after-marc-benioffs-ice-comments/

WIRED

Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.
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