What utter BS.
I had diverted some of my purchases to Best Buy from Amazon - now I’m not going to bother any longer.
Let them die and see how “senior management team” deals with that.
Every single employee should take off.
Please tell me this is not real.
I thought they were already out of business?
The one near me is in sorry shape.
Will never shop there again.
Maybe they really mean, “take time off to protest.”
Oh, they just opened Pandora’s Box.
Previously ...
https://corporate.bestbuy.com/a-message-from-the-senior-leadership-team/
MAY 27, 2020
A Message From The Senior Leadership Team
BEST BUYSTAFF WRITER
Another black man in America died senselessly on Monday, and it happened only miles from where many of us live. As cars and people passed by, unaware that a man was struggling to breathe as another’s knee was on his neck, our state and country witnessed yet another example of how the life of an African American man, woman, boy or girl is fundamentally different from their white friends, neighbors and colleagues.
All this happened on the same day another black man, this time in New York City, was threatened by a white woman who said she would call the police on him when he requested she leash her dog, as required by city ordinance. She made that threat — and carried through on it — almost certainly knowing it would strike fear in the heart of any African American adult. She weaponized racism, and the whole world was able to watch.
We write about these two events — and could certainly mention many more, including a young African American man chased and gunned down while jogging in southern Georgia — not because most of us know what this fear must be like. We are as a group, by and large, not people of color. We write this not because most of us have known anyone personally in a situation like this. Thankfully, most of us do not. We write this because it could have been any one of our friends or colleagues at Best Buy, or in our personal lives, lying on the ground, struggling to breathe or filming someone as they threatened us.
This is the heart of the issue. Every time we see this kind of tragedy it can be hard not to feel emotional, not just for the human being affected or their family, but for the colleagues we know who could be — and have been — victims of overt, hostile and even dangerous racism. If we allow ourselves, it is not hard to imagine them lying on the ground begging to breathe or bravely staring racism in the eye as they walk through a park.
If we permit it, we can — and we believe we should — see the moment for what it is: a horrific tragedy in Minneapolis or one in the making in New York City. But then we must take the next step, moving beyond it happening to a stranger to the possibility of it happening to someone we call a friend. Only then, in our view, do we begin to internalize how terrifying life can be for the black father or mother who must regularly remind their children what to do when facing a situation like this. Or what it must feel like for those same parents to know that they, too, could be facing it themselves.
In keeping with our deep commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, the company will continue to invest resources and time on this topic, even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Best Buy’s Senior Leadership Team
Corie Barry, Chief Executive Officer
Mike Mohan, President and Chief Operating Officer
Whit Alexander, Chief Strategy Officer
Rob Bass, Chief Supply Chain Officer
Matt Bilunas, Chief Financial Officer
Jason Bonfig, Chief Merchandising Officer
Frank Crowson, Chief Marketing Officer
Matt Furman, Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer
Gail Gibbs, Vice President of Human Resources
Damien Harmon, President of Operations
Todd Hartman, General Counsel and Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
Mark Irvin, Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer
Allison Peterson, Chief Customer Officer
Asheesh Saksena, President of Best Buy Health
Kamy Scarlett, Chief Human Resources Officer
Ray Sliva, President of Retail
Brian Tilzer, Chief Digital and Technology Officer
They hope this will prevent looting of their stores, at the same time get their employees to vote straight ticket Democrat. It won’t on either front.
Obviously there are Best Buy’s in Louisville that are on the Burn List.
Best Buy is betting the BLM’ers wont burn down their stores as a result of this suck-up email.
I’m betting they are betting wrong.
Translation:
We don’t want you working here until you get your emotions in check.
We said all the right things, so you should not vandalize our store.
But feel free to loot and burn any other business on your day off.
Another marketing and HR department gone wild. ALL corporations have allowed this infiltration at the highest levels. I guess there’s really no need for that old fashioned concept of innocent before found guilty.
What if we want time off to celebrate the decision of reason over riot?
Politics in the workplace is never a good thing. Those who decide to take time off will loathe those who don’t, and vice versa. Politics where I worked was kept out of the workplace until Obama became POTUS. Bastard ruined a lot of this country.
To Mourn????
BB no longer on my buying list...
It’s a religion.
2-Boyfriend shoots cop.
3-Cops return fire.
4-Taylor tragically killed by stray shots.
What the hell is there to "mourn" regarding the Grand Jury decision?
Shut up and sell merchandise made in USA.
Disgusting!!! Trying to make a bad situation EVEN WORSE! BYE Best Buy!