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

[jwz@mastodon.social]

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.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3N

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@jwz You can tell the capital class feels untouchable when that entire room could've beaten him to a pulp if they so chose and yet he still said it anyway.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@jwz Jegus fuck.

[netunreach@mastodon.social]

@jwz Wouldn't it be funny if you were my underlings? How crazy it would be if you were so financially dependent and so underneath me I could have you disappeared at a moments notice and laugh in your face about living in a police state? haha that would be so bad... ... unless...?

[life_is@no-pony.farm]

Milliardär lockt eigene Angestellte in die USA zu kommen, damit er sie der ICE ausliefern kann und hält das für einen guten Scherz. In Deutschland ist der Konzern #Salesforce mit eigenen Trucks bei den großen CSDs dabei. Mal sehen, wie das dieses Jahr so ankommt.

[madalex@fosstodon.org]

@jwz Good billionaire is an oxymoron.

[paul@ruby.social]

@jwz There are no “good billionaires”, it’s impossible. If you have enough money to solve poverty, and choose not to, you are a bad person.

[radiant_moon@mastodon.social]

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

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.

WIRED (www.wired.com)

[nerde@beige.party]

@jwz
Let me explain the joke. You see, Benioff is a white privileged male billionaire, and no one else is, so it’s funny.

[paninid@mastodon.world]

@jwz
JFC

[megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social]

@jwz Right now I'd refuse to go to the US, and resign if I had to, unless a lot of guarantees were made.

[su_liam@mas.to]

@theorangetheme @jwz No jury would convict. Which should be educational for the survivors.

[datenreisender@norden.social]

@megatronicthronbanks @jwz What guarantees would be good enough for you that you trust them? In my current situation I cannot think of any.

[bernardlyons@mastodon.ie]

@jwz I’d have gone straight to the airport. Fuck him and his job.

[happyborg@fosstodon.org]

@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.

[zverik@en.osm.town]

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