"It seems like just yesterday (it was right before Dreamforce) that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff did an overnight San Francisco villain turn when declaring that National Guard agents should be deployed to San Francisco to carry out some Trumpy law-and-order shit. His employees were irate and he walked the comments back, and apparently even helped talk Trump out of a full federal agent surge that Trump was planning here."
"The jokes were apparently at the expense of Salesforce international employees, who were unlikely to have been amused by the notion that ICE could throw them in prison. (Because ICE could!) We don't know the exact wording of the joke Benioff cracked. Wired reports on the general gist of the joke, which is that Benioff asked international employees to stand to thank them for attending. He then joked that ICE agents were in the building monitoring them."
Marc Benioff joked that ICE agents were monitoring international employees while delivering the opening keynote at the Salesforce Company Kickoff in Las Vegas. International employees reacted with anger and discomfort, and Slack messages leaked expressing that the jokes were inappropriate and upsetting, especially after welcoming teammates from outside the U.S. Employees circulated an open company letter demanding that Salesforce stop selling services to ICE and denounce ICE's current conduct. Benioff previously proposed deploying the National Guard in San Francisco, walked back those comments amid employee ire, and helped prevent a larger federal agent deployment planned for the city.
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