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Campbell's fires executive who was recorded saying company's products are for 'poor people' (apnews.com)
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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 54 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

In the lawsuit, Garza claimed he met with Bally in November 2024 to discuss his salary. During the meeting, which Garza allegedly recorded, Bally described Campbell’s as “highly process(ed) food” and said it was for “poor people.”

Garza claimed in the lawsuit that Bally made racist remarks about Indian workers, whom he called “idiots.” Garza said Bally also told him that he often went to work high after consuming marijuana edibles.

I really badly want to know how a conversation about a raise turned into whatever the fuck was going on there. Just how did that get so far off topic that he decided to spill his secrets? Shouldn't Garza be in charge of interrogations somewhere?

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Clues in the piece the guy was high

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago

Marijuana isn't a truth serum.

[–] watson@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

I also go to work high on marijuana edibles, and I don’t do shit like this.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

As someone who has occasional one on one meetings with executives, I'm not surprised. They tend to ramble and talk about whatever they feel like. Admittedly I haven't met anyone who would say this sort of things, whether because they aren't thinking it or they are on guard somewhat, but a lot of those conversations go into weird territory, like the executive really wants some friends and treats any one on one meeting as getting with some like minded friend.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

First guess? Alcohol...

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago

So in order to combat the notion the soup is for poor people ... Campbell's announces price increases?

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago

It's funny, but "for poor people" could be a good phrase for the right company.

"Our focus is on producing safe, nutritious, appetizing meals at a price anyone can afford. That's why our company is named, ForPoorPeople."

Of course, it's more likely that I'll win the lottery despite not actually playing it before such a company could or would exist.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Good step, but they need to fire Garza's old manager and offer Garza a settlement, alternately, his old job back + back pay and a nice bonus.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, they hated what the guy did still. They may have tossed the VP under the bus to try to mitigate the backlash, but it was still Garza that exposed the mess to the public in the first place, and that's just way worse for the bottom line than being snobby and racist and bad mouthing your own product.

So they hope attention stays on ousting the VP in the court of public opinion, and handle Garza in more formal channels, and likely win if Garza recorded without informing the other party, particularly making that conversation public.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

That's true, depends on if the recording was done in a two party state or not. Still need to fire his old boss though. Maybe whoever in HR decided to go after him instead of the VP.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Now fire that Campbell's guy who illegally dumped Campbell's shit in a river recently. Glop of "Cream" of Mushroom soup anyone? Glop of "Cream" of Tomato soup anyone. Campbell's thinks they deserve your hard earned cash. They're wrong.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

https://thecookingfacts.com/what-are-the-ingredients-in-campbells-cream-of-mushroom-soup/

The condensed soups themselves contain cream and call for milk as the mixin. Your scare quotes are nonsensical.

(The real "problem" with canned soup is the sodium content, and maybe exaggerating how hard it is to make soup at home.)

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 15 points 4 hours ago

I fully support cancel culture for racist pieces of shit.

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Where's their LinkedIn profile? My broke ass wants to say Hi.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Now they need to fire J.D. Aupperle for inappropriately firing Garza, and with two recently vacated positions, offer Garza the option to choose which one he wants.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

"For poor people or the Navy".

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The correct decision from Campbell's here.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Absolutely but I hope they also listen to what he said and realize there is some truth in it. If their executives think like that and they are in charge of making all the decisions about how the products are made they have probably been making decisions based on that flawed knowledge. I feel like they should audit their whole company and see what's really going on if they really don't believe the things that guy said.