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.
You’re describing the working poor, a subset of the working class.
People who earn 200k/year are not the working poor. They are upper middle class or upper class. These things are not subjective, they are well defined.
Salesforce does not employ the working poor. They contract out to subcontractors for all their cleaning and cooking needs… Salesforce employees start at about $150k-$175k for the junior positions.
Correct. They are however working class. Your post said working class not working poor.
Upper class and middle class are marketing terms that only create divisions between the working class. Anyone in the working class can very quickly become the working poor.
If you serve oligarchs instead of making slightly less I hope you get sick and die. Period. I don’t give a shit what class you belong to if you’re helping ICE for a living. You are the one choosing to miss the point of who is your ally and who is not.
You’re literally creating a class divide here that doesn’t need to exist. You are not anyone’s ally.
You’re a reactionary fool that will become the person who you claim to hate the moment you’re given the chance.
people who earn 200k/yr still have to work to live. ~15k a month net is a lot but if you have kids, pets, a mortgage, medical bills, student loans, car, phone etc and you trying to eat too, you can’t suddenly say “phew! I’ve had enough work for the next 40 years, time to live on 4k a year - easy!”
Would you level that criticism at a welder, at a longshoreman, at a truck driver? they can earn 6 fig salaries too
If those longshoremen were working directly for ICE, yeah I would not consider them my ally.
By definition they are not the working poor. This isn’t subjective and inflation didn’t erase the upper middle class yet. Besides it’s missing the point to claim that ICE agents are excused from wrongdoing because they’re the working poor so therefore can’t work for someone else. This is no different. They are not the working poor who cannot afford to switch jobs.
They have a choice. They are not trapped in their labor class. They can work for other companies besides Salesforce…they can choose not to support ICE.