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[–] 197 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow. Another sociopath CEO. What a shocker.

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    [–] 93 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    "Piotr Szczerek, a Polish chief executive of a paving firm, said he was "convinced" tennis star Kamil Majchrzak had been "passing his hat in my direction"."

    Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce93klk0jpzo

    (Also the kid got to meet Kamil later on and got another hat from him)

    I don't know the validity of that claim in the original picture, but IMO the CEO is a lying sack of shit in this declaration. Look at the video. The way he snatched the hat clearly indicates he intended to get it before the kid could. He knew fully well what he was doing and his only regret is to have been caught on camera.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's a legit quote by him from a now deleted forum post on his website:

    “The recent incident at the tennis match has caused a disproportionate online uproar. It’s all about the famous hat, of course. Yes, I took it. Yes, I did it quickly. But as I’ve always said, life is first come, first served,” he claimed.

    “In the end, chin up, hats off, less venom, more sportsmanship.”

    Source

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A polish paving company called Drogbruk

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The douche still has the hat and that's unacceptable.
    If I were Majchrzak I would clarify he did certainly not 'pass his hat in his direction' and that he wants it back.
    Otherwise he can file a police report for theft.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A normal person who actually did the mistake he claims to have made in the BBC article wouldn't be able to keep that hat because it would make them feel intense shame every time they looked at it.

    This CEO is a narcissist.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago

    I think we found the next GOP candidate for president.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Thought experiment: how would our closest ape cousins deal with an individual like this in their midst?

    My guess would be: fangs.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Put him an ape enclosure and find out what happens.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago*

    rabid dogs. the rich have no concept of restraint

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He's been made to apologise now, presumably by his board or shareholders. The US Open is a nuts sports tournament; there's always some crazy scandal or meme coming out of it. The chicken tendies and pepsi lady, who got a record deal out of her bizzare food combo, springs to mind

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    "apologise", After writing not one but three posts to say that not only he was right, but gave a free life lesson to the kid.

    It's more like that someone else used his account to write that, maybe even without permission

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He's got some regrets now, but he is acting like it was all some big mistake instead of him being a fucking sears tower of feces. Get bent rich asshole, the world is not your oyster and we see right through your B's excuses.

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  • He should get served a bat

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    When we do a much needed global French style revolution can I suggest all CEOs be put on the list

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    can we make an income level exemption? i'm arguably the ceo of my flailing music business. we've made a total of like a thousand in revenues dollars over 30 years and given away way more than that in free services.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    yea there are many small scale businesses with CEOs on top which are not generally assholes. I think a criterion could if the business has some billionaire shareholder then the odds that the CEO is an asshole significantly rises.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    These kids aren't there by themselves. How do you not confront a shithead like that as their parent? Cause to me it sounds like we're getting thrown out of here, junior but you're getting that hat.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Some people don’t want to teach their kids that immediately going to violence is any way to solve things. The ceo is being tarred in the media and the kid got to meet the player and got a hat anyways so it seems like the parents made the right decision.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah as a parent this kind of thing is tough. You don't want to teach the kid it's ok to let people walk over you but you also don't want to teach them it's ok to use violence. I'm not sure exactly how I'd react if that was my kid and I was sitting close..

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Summoning Luigi

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, read that he (once and only when caught, of course) gave the kid back the hat with some kind of apology. Being exposed worldwide as a dick really can shake a world.

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    [+] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    To me, the video does not match his current apology

    https://youtu.be/-BFaPFcInBE

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  • [+] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay, so the video I posted is AI bullshit. Right. But I've seen the clip within the video of him grabbing the hat from the kid on numerous other non-youtube videos.

    Very shortly, I will back away from all of these social media and video playback services completely. I'm too old to deal with this bullshit.

    That CEO is a c-word. A fucking cunt.

    AI? Feck. I don't think I can handle it

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Bestest news cycle distraction, with free attention for CEO. The even bestest part is that a few days from now, magnanimous CEO will hold ceremony with full media coverage for how graciously selfless he is for donating the hat to a/this child. Hopefully, Cracker Barrel will not change their logo again to upstage him. Obviously nothing serious is destroying America at the moment.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure this is fake. I read he apologised and was put in touch with the family.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    The comments he supposedly said is hearsay but he deleted his social media accounts since the controversy so yeah lack of evidence is a form of evidence. https://www.primetimer.com/news/did-polish-ceo-piotr-szczerek-say-first-come-first-serve-following-viral-us-open-hat-snatching-backlash-viral-statement-debunked

    Still an evil bastard though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    every article I found on it was a bs corporate apology

    I'm just assuming that he's not stupid and gutless enough to say what's on the OP on public and then backtrack on it. maybe he said both, idk

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    the most detailed story about this is I think here

    https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/polish-ceos-company-review-bombed-after-stealing-hat-from-a-child-at-tennis-game-3244263/

    It says the initial comments were made in Poland's GoWork forum with apparently hundreds of people calling him out but the post has been since deleted. Also even if the comments really existed, perhaps it would be impossible to really prove that the commenter is really this CEO.

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