All the virtue signaling here. No one here has quoted a explicit(barely) movie line? Cancel culture needs to die.
Arthur from 1981 is the movie.
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Apple Procurement VP Departs Company After Vulgar TikTok Comment
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Arthur from 1981 is the movie.
You didn’t own a McLaren slr soo your base model c class doesn’t matter
Good thing none of us have never made a vulgar joke or dumb comment in our lifetime, ever.
He said it was his job, which, movie quote or not, points back to his employer. This got circulated among the suppliers he negotiated with and people who worked under him and those people absolutely do give a ****.
Tim loves jokes about LGBT only. Embracing LGBT is Apple’s current culture value.
Weird that you consider basic expected behavior by a VP level Exec to be woke or even something modern. When you reach that level in business perhaps you’ll understand that this has been around since corporations have.
Off-brand for Apple? Corporations are all the same. To save a nickel they'd allow their workers to work in an unsafe environment. Don't kid yourself, Apple, too.
I don’t see how what he does outside of work is any of Apples business? It’s not like he posted it on their official social media account
Not that I see this „joke“ as anything but stupid
Not that I see this „joke“ as anything but stupid
Apple, as any corporation, have no moral standards. It is all virtual signaling.
No jokes! No jokes ever in public. Be serious all the time or get cancelled. Never laugh at life or reference something from more than 10 minutes ago. Kill humor with a stick.
It’s a business contract that someone agrees to sign.
Folks need to understand that Procurement guys are a different breed. They live in a cutthroat world that in many ways is insulated from most other corporate functions. They get paid to be unrelenting, even ruthless, in dealing with suppliers. In a lot of ways its like the military. There are not a lot of niceties in procurement. It’s eat or be eaten. Tony was very good at it, hence his nickname Blevinator. Tony was a trusted exec who went way back with Tim Cook and Jeff Williams when the three of them were with IBM‘s PC Company. It is sad to see this mistake cost him so much, especially as he made a poor attempt at humor. But how many of us at some time in our lives have not made the same kind of off-the-cuff blunder, especially after maybe having a drink or two or having a person with an agenda try to get a rise out of you? I am sure that Cook and Williams hated to fire him, but given the current cultural ethos and the employee environment at Apple, they really did not have any choice. Sadly, this is the world we live in. It’s good to be retired.
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What if he was? Who cares? A little personality, a little variation makes the world go round. So what if he has some foibles? That’s the spice of life.
Tim Cook made a multi billion dollar deal with a guy that threw a woman down a staircase in public and then publicly joked about it. Not only did Cook make the business deal but he then gushed in public how great this guy is.
Just because they fired him from his public executive position doesn’t mean they won’t turn around and hire him as a private consultant.
The company I work for is not nearly as uptight. I'd probably get at least one warning.
That’s what I was gonna say, but didn’t wanna assume. Damn.
Good God some people here are ridiculous. Who did this comment harm? No one that's who. Sure it's crude but he paraphrased a movie and lost an entire career in the process and people here act like that's a just response.
This fake outrage (and yes, everyone angry at this I consider to have fake outrage since it doesn't affect you in the slightest) on social media is out of hand. No one is perfect, a simple apology over this should have sufficed.
This fake outrage (and yes, everyone angry at this I consider to have fake outrage since it doesn't affect you in the slightest) on social media is out of hand. No one is perfect, a simple apology over this should have sufficed.
Lord forbid you make a joke that might insult someone, while not on working hours. People need to grow a backbone.