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TL:DR; The Salesforce CEO at a company's annual all hands gathering asked international employees to please rise in the audience, then made a "joke" that ICE agents were in the back of the room ready to nab them.

Guillotines for billionaires is the moderate choice at this point

[adr@mastodon.social]

@mathowie that is fucking NUTS. that is NUTS. who the fuck. who does that. the fuck

[mathowie@xoxo.zone]

@adr it was his OPENING! HIS LIGHT HEARTED JOKE.

it sounded so light for a little chuckle, not terrorizing your own employees in front of literally everyone.

[adr@mastodon.social]

@mathowie christ amighty. read the room. read the era. read your position of power as a born-citizen and incredibly rich guy and oh yeah all these people's boss in a non-unionized shop. goddamn

[mathowie@xoxo.zone]

@adr I recently learned Benioff worked for Larry Ellison at Oracle for years before starting Salesforce and things begin to track after that

[adr@mastodon.social]

@mathowie oh now that.... yeah

[vmstan@vmst.io]

@mathowie at one point Benioff might have been considered one of the better ones... seems to not be the case.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@vmstan @mathowie The only good billionaire is a... well, I'll let you finish that sentence.

[cda@macaw.social]

@mathowie @adr Yeah, you don't earn the moniker Larry Prince of Darkness for no reason.

[caffeinatedgeek@thecanadian.social]

@theorangetheme @vmstan @mathowie a former billionaire.

[zompus@phire.place]

@mathowie @adr He's also cousin to one of the Game of Thrones showrunners.

[kims@mas.to]

@mathowie
There is someone on his staff -- probably multiple people -- who get paid to tell him not to say that

Had the guy I was speechwriting for ever slipped in something even *one tenth* as awful as that, I would have fired myself

And not just because it would have woken me up to who/what I was working for, but also because I would have considered myself a failure at my job

Just... holy shit

What a fucking monster

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@caffeinatedgeek @vmstan @mathowie Close enough. Spiritually billionaire.

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@mathowie @PapyrusBrigade gross

[polypunk@punkstodon.de]

@mathowie
Damit, he deserves a cameo in "All billionaires are bastards" :-)

https://punktube.net/w/1EGam6T6qtH3qABSp2Fozv

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@mathowie Sadly, not just billionaires... but yeah... 😓

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@kims @mathowie Benioff has been stepping on this particular rake repeatedly. I imagine his comms folks are apoplectic

https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-apologizes-for-national-guard-comments-2025-10

[kims@mas.to]

@jalefkowit @mathowie
I remember the closing lines of the NYT piece on the same subject:

At the end of the interview, [Benioff] turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@kims @mathowie (but if the boss is fash-curious there is only so much the comms people can do to stop him)