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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.
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.
Thanks for the reminder. This will be burned in my memory for YEARS to come. Bold marketing move!
Now let me get online and short sell - NASDAQ: CPB
It’ll probably go up because now all the billionaires know they are aligned in vision
Sadly, very possible.
Jokes on him, I can only afford ramen
Everyone should avoid that shit anyway. There are healthier and less expensive soups out there, Make your own!!!
Jokes on them, their soups are not cheap anymore.
That’s okay, not like your soup isn’t jacked up to shit with sodium. People are tasting more salt in your shit-ass idea you call a soup than the actual so-called ingredients you put in it.
its mostly water anyways,.
Obvious ragebait aside… the guy thought he was going to lunch to talk about salary, and recorded the conversation? Something smells a bit fishy there. The rest seems like standard rich people and corporate bullshit that sadly happens at all big corps. So it isn’t really all that suprising.
I don’t understand people who don’t try to document or record anything work or business related. They’re not your friends, and handshakes don’t always hold up in court.
Most of the time documenting things doesn’t matter. It’s very expensive to try and sue billion dollar companies. And if your name gets out, your job prospects drop dramatically. Sadly, proof doesn’t get you very far toward justice. The system is designed to protect commerce, not people.
1-party states ftw!
There’s some sort of lawsuit with retaliation over whistleblowers/racism, and I think the guy was recording to make sure that any salary promises were documented. The whole situation seems fucked.
Funnily enough there’s a term for this in the UK; it’s called Doing a Ratner’s.
That’s exactly what I thought of! Classic British tale
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I think this is fair game. we blast the rich all the time for being absolute soulless husks that look like human beings.
if anything, this should just solidify in our minds that we’re right.
This administration will excuse it the order will come down from the Supreme Court and Pam bondi to excuse the racist behavior.
Plenty of other soups to buy, many of which even taste like food, unlike Campbells.
I’m not sure if it’s just that my palate became more picky as I’ve gotten older, but I remember canned soups being pretty decent as a kid. Nowadays I usually cook my own food, but recently I’ve been trying canned soups again, and I’m astonished how bad most brands are. Campbells or Progresso are either bland or taste actively terrible. The only ones I’ve tried that actually taste good are usually kinda expensive, like Amy’s or Snow’s.
Curious if anyone here who was an adult 20 or 30 years ago can confirm that affordable canned soups tasted better in the past, or if my memory is deceiving me.
Same. Oddly, store brand condensed tomato soup is great.
Was wondering if it was just me. I used to remember the chicken noodle being salty AF but not awful, and now it tastes more like the can it came in. Pretty bad.
At least some part of this is related to aging. Our sense of taste seems to diminish as we age, but also we get exposed to more and more complex flavor profiles as we go through life. Canned soups dont even taste salty to me anymore, they just taste bland.
Oh, I don’t doubt that. I’m an amateur “chef” or at least a cooking enthusiast. I’ve had to ask for more help checking flavors as I’ve gotten older. But those soups have deteriorated in quality faster than my taste buds.
Oh yeah for sure.
You’re not wrong. Progresso in particular is nasty.
The things these rich pieces of fucking trash deserve is a list based on brutality and rage
After spending 20 seconds closing all the popups, confirmations and ads, they still popped up and I rage quitted. Absolutely shitty website
Newsweek is a trash tabloid even without ads. Should be below us on Lemmy.
I only got a cookie pop up (though even that can be suppressed with other extension) . I had opened it on Desktop with uBlock Origin. By any chance, did you open on mobile?
By any chance, did you open on mobile?
Yes, the android’s built in web browser that opens when you press on links inside apps. Theoretically I could have also used the “Open in Firefox”, but I was too disappointed in the website to give them traffic
The built in Web browser by default is Chrome but can be configured to be anything else as well ( including Firefox if the user chooses to)
Huh, I never bothered to even check for that because I never assumed google would allow me to do that. How surprisingly nice of them (or whoever sued them like it was with MS windows). Thanks!
EDIT: Do you mean simply browser under default apps? That is already set to Firefox but that does not really change the browser that pops up inside apps.
EDIT2: Okay, I’m a moron. The browser that opens inside the apps is already Firefox, but some very light form of it since no addons or settings work there. I’m stuck with having to do 2 more clicks each time whenever I need a digital condom
I’m using AdBlock Browser which doesn’t need to load an extension. Maybe something similar exists based on Gecko?
Poor people buy Campbell’s? That shit is pricey as hell nowadays and I can’t remember the last time I gave a fuck about their overpriced oversalted garbage.
Not in food deserts.
Walk into a chain pharmacy or a dollar store in the US and Campbell’s will be one the cheapest of the 3 soup brands they offer.
Well then, I stand corrected. I am happy to not be in a food desert.
And it might sound crazy, but there are tons of people living in motels full time as well, with no more than a mini fridge and a microwave to cook with. Some of the only affordable housing out there is simply rented out bedrooms in someone else’s house - meaning a shared kitchen, complete with competition for cooking times and space.
It’s easy to say as others have and talk about it being far cheaper to make soup yourself. But the reality is, not everyone has the time, space, or equipment to do that. Having to buy ready-made food is another poor tax, in a way.
That fucking sucks and is dystopia as hell
