• LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The title of the article is some serious clickbait. I suggest that you go read the article for yourself or you’ll seriously get the wrong idea.

    First, the article is basically not about the VP mocking poor people, but about a lawsuit. A person recorded the VP’s remarks, which allegedly included racist statements against Indian people. He reported the meeting to management, and then he was fired. The article is about a lawsuit for his being fired for reporting racially discriminatory conduct.

    (The guy said he recorded the conversation because he thought the meeting would be about his salary, and wanted to get the comments on record, so even if that’s true, it sounds like he knew the VP was a piece of shit who couldn’t be trusted.)

    Second, the VP was in IT, and was not involved in the production or sales of food. He had the title of Chief Information Security Officer.

    In a big company, VPs don’t actually hold that important of a role in the first place. It sounds like this VP was a serious asshole. Probably the VP’s manager is similarly a seriously incompetent asshole who deserves to be fired, but anybody who has worked in a big company knows these types of guys are a dime a dozen. They weasel their ways in to middle and upper-middle management and it is not rare for them to be completely incompetent and constantly shit on the company and product in private. They often form a sort of asshole clique and make entire sections of a company hellish to work in.

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      14 hours ago

      Local 4 News in Detroit broadcast portions of the recording. In it, a speaker identified as Bally is heard saying, “We have s**t for f***king poor people. Who buys our s**t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f**‘s in it.”

      He also referenced “bioengineered meat,” saying, “I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer.”

      The recording, which lasted longer than an hour and 15 minutes, included what Garza said was a “disgusting” rant alleged to be made by Bally about his coworkers: “F***ing Indians don’t know a f***ing thing,” and “Like they couldn’t think for their f***ing selves,” it said in part.