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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

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 21 points 10 months ago

Clues in the piece the guy was high

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Marijuana isn't a truth serum.

[-] watson@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

First guess? Alcohol...

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months 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.

[-] Vape_Or_Wave@leminal.space 2 points 10 months ago

Ha! It's true that Campbell's products seem to be affordable for most people. I hope they live up to the name 'ForPoorPeople' in terms of taste and quality too!

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Eh, the store brand canned soups are barely half the cost of Campbell's and they're often, uh, okay. Or at least no worse than Campbell's.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

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

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

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 15 points 10 months ago

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 10 months 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.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

While that is true, and what i am about to say is unlikely for them to realize, but pretty much the best way for them to quickly regain favor with the consumerist sheeple that they supposedly care about buying their products would be the positive press they would get from rehiring this guy with back pay and a small pay increase. And then they quietly fire him a year from now for an unspecified reason like a layoff.

[-] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 24 points 10 months ago

I fully support cancel culture for racist pieces of shit.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Soupist pieces of shit, too.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

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 10 points 10 months 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.)

[-] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months 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 7 points 10 months ago

"For poor people or the Navy".

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The correct decision from Campbell's here.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months 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.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

I wonder where he will become an executive next

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