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[–] 66 points 11 months ago (5 children)

In the lawsuit, Garza claimed he met with Bally in November 2024 to discuss his salary. During the meeting, which Garza allegedly recorded, Bally described Campbell’s as “highly process(ed) food” and said it was for “poor people.”

Garza claimed in the lawsuit that Bally made racist remarks about Indian workers, whom he called “idiots.” Garza said Bally also told him that he often went to work high after consuming marijuana edibles.

I really badly want to know how a conversation about a raise turned into whatever the fuck was going on there. Just how did that get so far off topic that he decided to spill his secrets? Shouldn't Garza be in charge of interrogations somewhere?

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago

    As someone who has occasional one on one meetings with executives, I'm not surprised. They tend to ramble and talk about whatever they feel like. Admittedly I haven't met anyone who would say this sort of things, whether because they aren't thinking it or they are on guard somewhat, but a lot of those conversations go into weird territory, like the executive really wants some friends and treats any one on one meeting as getting with some like minded friend.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's funny, but "for poor people" could be a good phrase for the right company.

    "Our focus is on producing safe, nutritious, appetizing meals at a price anyone can afford. That's why our company is named, ForPoorPeople."

    Of course, it's more likely that I'll win the lottery despite not actually playing it before such a company could or would exist.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Ha! It's true that Campbell's products seem to be affordable for most people. I hope they live up to the name 'ForPoorPeople' in terms of taste and quality too!

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago

    So in order to combat the notion the soup is for poor people ... Campbell's announces price increases?

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Good step, but they need to fire Garza's old manager and offer Garza a settlement, alternately, his old job back + back pay and a nice bonus.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Nah, they hated what the guy did still. They may have tossed the VP under the bus to try to mitigate the backlash, but it was still Garza that exposed the mess to the public in the first place, and that's just way worse for the bottom line than being snobby and racist and bad mouthing your own product.

    So they hope attention stays on ousting the VP in the court of public opinion, and handle Garza in more formal channels, and likely win if Garza recorded without informing the other party, particularly making that conversation public.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    While that is true, and what i am about to say is unlikely for them to realize, but pretty much the best way for them to quickly regain favor with the consumerist sheeple that they supposedly care about buying their products would be the positive press they would get from rehiring this guy with back pay and a small pay increase. And then they quietly fire him a year from now for an unspecified reason like a layoff.

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I fully support cancel culture for racist pieces of shit.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Where's their LinkedIn profile? My broke ass wants to say Hi.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    "For poor people or the Navy".

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Now they need to fire J.D. Aupperle for inappropriately firing Garza, and with two recently vacated positions, offer Garza the option to choose which one he wants.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Now fire that Campbell's guy who illegally dumped Campbell's shit in a river recently. Glop of "Cream" of Mushroom soup anyone? Glop of "Cream" of Tomato soup anyone. Campbell's thinks they deserve your hard earned cash. They're wrong.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The correct decision from Campbell's here.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Absolutely but I hope they also listen to what he said and realize there is some truth in it. If their executives think like that and they are in charge of making all the decisions about how the products are made they have probably been making decisions based on that flawed knowledge. I feel like they should audit their whole company and see what's really going on if they really don't believe the things that guy said.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I wonder where he will become an executive next

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