Ah...the Adobe business model. Make your customers hate your company and product. Bold move.
I call it: "Fuck you, buy our stuff."
I know this isn't about Adobe, but fuck Adobe. As a user I really do hate them and wish them nothing but failure.
Well hey it’s working well for adobe so far
What was said, from the article:
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.
The bioengineered meat bit is honestly hilarious to me, it's clear this guy has no relation to actual production. 3D printed meat is nowhere near viable for the scale of production that Campbells operates at- it can't keep up with the sheer volume required and it is significantly more expensive than traditional meat production.
Dude's just gone off the deep end with right-wing conspiracy theories, which makes sense given the whole racist tirade and hating the poor.
Wait till these people learn about chicken nuggets.
We already had that idiotic "pink slime" scare several years ago. No need to rehash that nonsense.
The companies Facebook is getting wrecked by the “MAHA” crowd, which is pretty hilarious. They are not happy about the bio-engineered meat.
Yeah, I bet those foreign influencers are really pissed.
The craziest thing to me about this is that the employee (who was very smart to record this conversation) literally used official internal channels to report this. Rather than deal with it professionally, they fired him for being honest.
Well, I guess it’s time to leak to the press, then…
Also, from those remarks, it really seems like the VP hates his job. They should’ve done him and the company a favor and fired him instead.
That's so much worse than the title suggested.
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.
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.
Poor people can’t afford canned soup, not since covid. Campbells was was 2/$1, $.79 at most. Now it’s $2. Progresso was 3/$5, maybe $1.50 per. Now it’s $2.79 each.
Crockpot or instapot and a freezer is the way, now.
Yup. Crockpot with beans, rice, lentils, chopped veggies, a few bouillon cubes, spices, and whatever meat the grocery store has on clearance. The entire thing will average out to like $1 per bowl, and a big crockpot will keep a couple fed (lunch and dinner) for several days.
I guess Instant Pot really fucked up by not calling their product "Instapot," huh?
I always thought that's what it was, then I googled "instapot" and found it's not actually a thing. TIL!
...I'm still gonna call it that, though.
That's awfully helpy! Thanks for the thing you said I wasn't knowful about.
Bruh costco chicken is like $5, get some chicken and make some chicken soup with that.
$2 is insane for salt water
Yeah the only time I touch canned goods, including seltzer (as I touched on in another comment) is when they're heavily discounted, and that's usually something like eight cans for five bucks, so we stock the shelf in the basement a bit, because it'd be real dumb to pass it up at the store on Monday, only to have the world end on Wednesday.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Jokes on him, I can only afford ramen
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.
1-party states ftw!
Jokes on them, their soups are not cheap anymore.
The things these rich pieces of fucking trash deserve is a list based on brutality and rage
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