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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I’ve only briefly interacted with it, and wasn’t impressed. The people who use it all the time hated it.
Then 4000 is about 5%. That means 95% are ok with working with the NRA or don’t care either way. I think it’s about time Salesforce trimmed its salesforce.
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send the 4000 to the unemployment line
So the NRA sells guns now?, I wonder where one of thier stores are at I would like to go see it.
Benioff ... one of the biggest lefties on earth ...
Salesforce is just another expensive and useless ERP. Their sales monkeys convince people they cannot do without it but their sales efforts far exceed their engineering efforts. Salesforce is a lousy piece of software.
They have 74,000 employees. He ought just fire them.
Just tell them they are free to cut their own ties via resignation...
All 4000 were immediately Fired right?
Meme to Salesforce: When your name is on my check then we
talk.
So would I & they would NOT get a good ‘reference’ from me.
So would I & they would NOT get a good ‘reference’ from me.
I was in charge of hiring/firing in a payroll department many years ago.
There is a solid message you can get thru—either direction—between prior employee trying to use you as a reference for a new employer.
IF the NEW employer is smart-—they will ask :”Are they eligible for REHIRE?” Then you can answer “NO” & that person calling knows NOT to hire them. YOU haven’t bad mouthed them or told any ‘tales out of school”. BUT you have gotten your message across.
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