After spending 20 seconds closing all the popups, confirmations and ads, they still popped up and I rage quitted. Absolutely shitty website

Funnily enough there's a term for this in the UK; it's called Doing a Ratner's.

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.

Ah...the Adobe business model. Make your customers hate your company and product. Bold move.

Plenty of other soups to buy, many of which even taste like food, unlike Campbells.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.