Wow. Another sociopath CEO. What a shocker.
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"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.
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.”
More sportsmanship after that? What??
A polish paving company called Drogbruk
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.
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.
Thought experiment: how would our closest ape cousins deal with an individual like this in their midst?
My guess would be: fangs.
His valuable protein would be redistributed to the rest of the group.
Much bludgeoning.
F yeah. These so called "alphas" like this exemplar wouldn't live too long in prehistoric times. People don't like selfish idiots and never did. What took us through all the dangers in the early history of humanity was our bondage, helpfulness and compassion, not "uga uga I was faster".
Possibly a smidgeon of feces flinging
Put him an ape enclosure and find out what happens.
This popped into my head. Part of the ending of Trading Places.
Oh Luigi, where art thou?
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
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.
not regrets that he is an asshole, regrets that he wasn't a more efficient asshole probably. More like "I should have covered my face better" or "I should have snatched it faster"
When we do a much needed global French style revolution can I suggest all CEOs be put on the list
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.
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.
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.
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.
To me, the video does not match his current apology
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
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.
Pretty sure this is fake. I read he apologised and was put in touch with the family.
this is fake lol
I've just done a dive into this myself. It's not fake. The CEO is an arsehole and a bully. Luckily, the tennis player meet up with the boy later and more than made up for the arseholery.
You got proof?
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.
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
the most detailed story about this is I think here
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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