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CEO 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.

86 points| felineflock | 19 days ago |404media.co

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wolvoleo|19 days ago

It was a bad joke but I'm not travelling to the US anymore including for work. Especially since we now have to give all kinds of social networks.

I'm part of the lgbt diversity team also which I'm sure will cause problems.

fyrn_|19 days ago

About as funny of a joke as Trump 'joking' about canceling the midterms. I think we should frame these kind of things more like "so and so said they would do x to gauge if they could get away with it or not". Calling either of these a joke doesn't make sense. Not funny.

kelseyfrog|19 days ago

You know how "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," contains a moral lesson? Don't lie because eventually people won't believe you.

We're about due for, "The Jester Who Meant It."

finkstein|19 days ago

It's the gaslighting politics era.

Anyone who points this out is insulted because they are insecure and can't take a joke. Once the joke becomes real they will insult you for not getting with the program.

This is White House policy at this point, so you can't blame Marc Benioff for playing along.

t0mas88|19 days ago

I find it amazing that anyone still uses Salesforce. They were innovating in their early days, but it has been legacy bloatware with more marketing than engineers for a decade now.

adi_kurian|19 days ago

$40bn

High revenue to active user

yoyohello13|19 days ago

Wouldn’t it be awesome to live in a world where powerful people were held accountable for the shit they say?

cosmicgadget|19 days ago

> Benioff thanked international employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said that ICE agents were in the building to keep tabs on them.

I mean he's more or less saying ICE is like the Stasi which isn't normally a flattering comparison.

There are a few reasons it could be considered distasteful but it doesn't sound like he was cheering ICE on.

linkjuice4all|19 days ago

An analog to this would be Flock inviting the highway patrol into a staff meeting to 'remind' them about the penalties of speeding - under the implied threat that you would be locked up, transported to a different country, and not given due process to even validate the infraction or face your accusers for merely disregarding civil laws. I'm sure that Mr. Benioff would never use the threat of deportation to keep employees in line.