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More than 4,000 Salesforce employees have signed an open letter demanding the company cut ties with the NRA
businessinsider ^ | Jun 1, 2022 | Weilun Soon

Posted on 06/02/2022 8:13:48 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

More than 4,000 Salesforce employees have urged their company's leadership to drop the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a customer.

The employees made their request in an open letter addressed to company leaders including co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor, SFGate first reported, citing a copy of the letter it viewed. The employees delivered the letter a day after a teenager went on a shooting rampage in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, killing at least 19 students and two adults.

"It's not in our power to get background checks or other gun control measures passed by Congress — but we can effect change by ending our commercial relationship with our customer, the National Rifle Association," the Salesforce employees wrote in their letter.

The letter's signatories expressed concern the NRA would rely on Marketing Cloud even more after the Uvalde massacre, according to a copy of the letter published by Protocol. Marketing Cloud is a Salesforce software that helps users plan and analyze digital marketing campaigns.

The signatories said the NRA would ramp up its marketing efforts "not to prevent future tragedies from happening, but to sow fear, sell guns, and abet future atrocities," the letter continued.

"It is unconscionable to consider their use of Marketing Cloud to capitalize on mass shootings," the letter continued.

The NRA has continued its advertising activity in the aftermath of the shooting. It started running Facebook ads about two weeks ago that urged gun owners to not let Congress limit gun ownership, and those remained active after the Uvalde shooting, per CNBC. The weekend after the massacre, the NRA held its annual convention in Houston, just 300 miles from Uvalde. The group showcased "14 acres" of guns and gear at the convention.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; bidenvoters; nra; salesforce
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CEO Marc Benioff should call Elon for advice on how to handle this.
1 posted on 06/02/2022 8:13:48 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
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To: American Number 181269513

I hate it when the secretary thinks she runs the company.


2 posted on 06/02/2022 8:15:39 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: American Number 181269513

You start interviewing people who want a job as you are cutting 4,000 problem employees.


3 posted on 06/02/2022 8:15:42 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: American Number 181269513

WTF is it with employees today, I’d fire the lot of them


4 posted on 06/02/2022 8:15:58 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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To: American Number 181269513

Call it hate speech and start firing people. No wokeness. No politics. Shut up and do your job.


5 posted on 06/02/2022 8:16:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives want to demoralize people so that they are afraid to be ambitious.)
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To: American Number 181269513

Wow! 4000 out of 336 million (Legal Americans)! This is some heavy sh*t! ROTFL.


6 posted on 06/02/2022 8:17:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: American Number 181269513

POS Salesforce needs to be Disney’d....


7 posted on 06/02/2022 8:18:36 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: American Number 181269513

Never heard of them.


8 posted on 06/02/2022 8:19:43 PM PDT by sport
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To: American Number 181269513

There’s the door.


9 posted on 06/02/2022 8:19:44 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: American Number 181269513

“CEO Marc Benioff should call Elon for advice on how to handle this.”

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I find this VERY strange as Benioff is a vocal fanboy of obama, and has stated on occasion that he would rather die than vote Republican. How this got to be in the first place is a deep myserty..


10 posted on 06/02/2022 8:19:53 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2018 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: American Number 181269513

More than 4,000 Salesforce employees can ESAD.


11 posted on 06/02/2022 8:20:33 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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I hate it when the secretary thinks she runs the company.

I thought she was the mailroom clerk?

12 posted on 06/02/2022 8:22:36 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: sport
I love the Wackypedia entry for Salesforce:

Salesforce. Salesforce, Inc. is an American far-left cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management (CRM) software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, analytics, and application development.

13 posted on 06/02/2022 8:25:59 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: American Number 181269513

4,000 out of how many employees? Context would be good to know.


14 posted on 06/02/2022 8:29:10 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: rockrr

Thanks.


15 posted on 06/02/2022 8:31:40 PM PDT by sport
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To: American Number 181269513

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.


16 posted on 06/02/2022 8:32:43 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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To: American Number 181269513

I use Salesforce at work. It sucks, terrible platform. I hope they go down the toilet.


17 posted on 06/02/2022 8:35:49 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: American Number 181269513

I interacted with Salesforce in early 2000s and they had an overt liberal culture even then. So I am not surprised by any of this.


18 posted on 06/02/2022 8:37:14 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: American Number 181269513

Dear Salesforce,

The NRA didn’t kill anyone. A gun didn’t kill anyone. Your stupid Mother-Fking liberal assed Satanic religion of insanity kills people. And when you get what you want, as the Bible tells us you will, that’s when BILLIONS DIE.


19 posted on 06/02/2022 8:38:52 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Blessed are the peace makers.)
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To: rockrr

Did you read that Benihoff came up with the idea of Salesforce while swimming with Dolphins. Crazy, the platform is very adaptable but in my experience very bug plagued and not as efficient as a competitor called TouchQuote.


20 posted on 06/02/2022 8:40:33 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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