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Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO and co-founder, is facing growing criticism over a joke he made about US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) monitoring international employees during an event for the company.

Employees publicly expressed outrage about Benioff’s comments in his keynote address at an internal conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, and leaders at Slack, which Salesforce owns, have said he should apologize.

Benioff reportedly asked international employees to stand, before joking that ICE agents were present and monitoring them, drawing boos from the crowd, several employees told media outlets including Wired and 404Media. A recording of his speech published on an internal Salesforce site was edited to cut his remarks about ICE, Business Insider reported.

The incident comes as hundreds of Salesforce workers reportedly plan to urge Benioff to denounce ICE and cancel future business with the agency, Wired and CNBC reported.

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 2 days ago (36 children)

Making fun of and hurting the working class is really all they know

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

So beyond that it's not even funny.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I'd settle to see the employees walk out.

From reading the article, it just sounds like anonymous complaints to no consequence. But maybe the Salesforce labor force has more of a spine than I'm giving them credit.

[–] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Useless fuck gets what he deserves"

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Piece of shit doesn't even deserve a headline. Let his memory be forgotten.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What an insensitive privileged piece of shit.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago

I mean he kinda has been for more than a decade.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

Seems like we need a meeting with HR first thing tomorrow morning.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 16 points 2 days ago

When MAGATs "joke", believe them. Salesforce people should flee, while they can.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Billionaire CEO accidentally leaves his bubble, immediately retreats

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

4 more decades of income inequality.

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[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago
[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

This little prick just wants to be in the media. He’s the CEO of a boring ass shit company and he knows it.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

after luigi wins by doing nothing, we need the rest of the super mario cast

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i want it canonically known that princess peach hovers by farts

[–] vane@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Pot twist, it was not a joke and they won't leave job.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Much like other billionaires, Benioff’s politics appear to have taken a marked turn in Trump’s second term. He for years was closely aligned with some liberal causes, including a 2018 measure in San Francisco to tax large corporations in the city to fund homeless services, and in an interview with the Guardian criticized billionaires for “hoarding” their wealth. Last fall Benioff told the New York Times he “fully supported” the president, and said Trump should send national guard troops to San Francisco, before apologizing and walking those comments back. His company, which has long had contracts with ICE, has sought to increase its business with the agency.

Scratch a liberal...

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He was never a liberal if he shifted towards Trump, he is a populist.

Is it actually possible for a billionaire to be a leftist?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Technically, yes if they inherited it. But they wouldn't stay one for long.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 2 days ago

Or a Powerball/megamillions winner.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Is it actually possible for a billionaire to be a leftist?

no

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can someone check if he’s a friend of Epstein?

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

mentioned couple times, just as another grifter looking for connections. not interesting enough for pedo island

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait when did salesforce buy slack?

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Several years back. The best thing about Salesforce's AI push is that it has distracted them from constantly push Slack on us.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

What a psychopath.

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Such a piece of garbage. Nice way to treat your "Ohana", Marc.

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