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Apple Procurement VP Departs Company After Vulgar TikTok Comment
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If all jokes are crass garbage (whether quotes from media or otherwise) to you, perhaps you should keep them to yourselfThis world no longer gets jokes... douchey yes, but it was a joke.... brittle... paper thin snowflakes...
Does that make you the snowflake? Am I allowed to whine about cancel culture now?
The Family Guy era of pointlessly offensive non-humor is officially dead! Seth McFarlane is seething and coping.
Nobody in the public knows him as an apple exec. You wouldn't recognize him if he ran over your dog.
But the Apple people who did, took such great offense, took a joke in a private event and turned it into a public problem. Apple was therefore forced to address it.
Walmart, Taco Bell, and Wendy's have thousands of unfilled positions tho. The positions have been unfilled since the COVID lockdowns.
What else would you expect from the most liberal liberal company on the planet.
Did he publish that on tiktok himself, as a visible representative of Apple?
High level execs at public companies have certain standards to maintain at all times because they are the faces of the company. They get tons of media training, and are taught how to act in public, particularly with a camera in their face.
Regardless if the joke was funny or the punishment was too harsh, he failed at one of his basic duties to represent Apple. Some may say that's unfair in his 'off' time, but it's par for the course as a high level exec in a big company and one of the many reasons they are paid so much.
Regardless if the joke was funny or the punishment was too harsh, he failed at one of his basic duties to represent Apple. Some may say that's unfair in his 'off' time, but it's par for the course as a high level exec in a big company and one of the many reasons they are paid so much.
The guy is allowed to joke. Leave him alone. What a boring world we are leaving today. Feel bad for the upcoming generations.
Seems like he was just p*ssing around. I'm Australian and we use humour all the time, he's just ripping a line from a movie off the cuff. Everyone needs to relax.
What a sad state that someone’s careers over a harmless comment in his own time. We expect people to be robots.
Didnt you get the memo? You are not allowed to relax. Or to joke. Unless you are ready to face canceling.
He's not exactly Eddie Cue or Craig Federighi in public visibility. And he wasn't interviewed by Forbes either. As an supply chain guy in a private setting with a rando asking about the car, he would not have reasonable expectation the video would blow up.
Would be nice if you had to get signed consent to publish a private citizen on the net, especially when addressing them directly. Regardless of his position at Apple he is still a private citizen, not a politician and what he has to say at a car show has nothing to do with the public interest.
After all, one needs consent for other things.....
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The head line is wrong. His statement wasn't vulgar it was a quote from a movie. Do better.
Yep. Keep pating yourself on the back. You need it.
Didnt see you apply the same treatment on the guy you agree with though. How weird...
Pro tip - people need to grow a backbone so they stop being offended by everything. The VP and what he did is not the problem, the problem is with those who think/believe he did wrong. If people honestly believe the man should have been fired for what he said then it just goes to show how regressed society has become. He was not rude, he was not insulting, he did not break any law but yet he was fired. What a shameful society it is today.