They made their choices. I say, let 'em crash. Let them serve as a very clear warning to any other company that pursues such a path (and there are a lot of them, sadly).
Posted on 07/03/2023 4:17:37 AM PDT by cotton1706
Brendan Whitworth wants Bud Light boycotters to blame him for the fateful Dylan Mulvaney promotion and not punish the 65,000 people whose livelihoods depend on Anheuser-Busch.
Speaking to CBS on Wednesday, the former U.S. Marine and CIA spy turned CEO of America’s largest beer brewer said the buck stopped with him when it came to the disastrous promotion with transgender influencer Mulvaney.
“One thing that I’d love to make extremely clear is that impact is my responsibility. As the CEO, everything we do I’m accountable for,” he said in the interview, which he reposted to LinkedIn, but not before disabling comments on the post.
Asked what troubled him the most, he said it was his 18,000 workers and the additional 47,000 people employed by its distributors. That number doesn’t count the farmers he said were also affected by the boycott.
“It’s the impact honestly on the employees that weighs the most on me,” he continued, urging people to drink Bud Light during the upcoming July Fourth weekend.
While Anheuser-Busch has sought to minimize the role Mulvaney played in its strategy, Whitworth reaffirmed the company would not change its stance toward its partnerships.
“Bud Light has supported LGBTQ since 1998, so that’s 25 years, and as we’ve said from the beginning we’ll continue to support the communities and organizations that we’ve supported for decades,” he said.
He may have sought to shield his staff from the fallout of the promotion, but he did not explicitly apologize for partnering with Mulvaney either. A number of consumers had claimed this official acknowledgment of a mistake was a prerequisite for winning back their business.
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No they didn't. So he and his company can go F themselves.
If he really cares about his employees, he should resign after he fires all “woke” employees. He should not receive any severance pay nor stock options.
If he really cares about his employees, he should resign after he fires all “woke” employees. He should not receive any severance pay nor stock options.
Oh, Brandon, your employees are your business and you have failed miserably. Learn to code, you turd.
Did anyone care about closing everything down so mailin ballots could be used in 2020? How many businesses and jobs were lost to “fortify” an election?
That’s a really funny line of reasoning. Dumb, but funny.
The corporation makes lots of other products. Just change the labels.
This guy sounds like another CEO clown.
Find another job, AB employees.
Dumbass....YOU should have thought about YOUR EMPLOYEES!
It is as though he believes there aren’t other places for people to work, other beers to drink, other choices to make - that somehow all of this impact only goes one direction.
That is the height of hubris!
This is actually pathetic. There is no shame anymore, and this man is a poster child. He should be ashamed to say these things publicly.
Companies abandoned any notion of loyalty to their workers a long, long time ago. It’s all about the bottomline. Mergers and Acquisitions. Layoff 25% of the staff, increase your profits, increase the Executive Bonus. That’s how any MBA will tell you to do it.
Companies are slow to realize that, today, neither their workers nor their customers give a flying eff about how things effect the company. Companies are disposable.
That piece of forethought should’ve been included in making that disastrous business move. Bud Light is forever stigmatizes by that decision to cozy up to the tranny mob. To bring up the welfare of employees now is absolutely pathetic.
And how does a lackluster SEAL and a CIA spook become the CEO of one of the largest company in America. His “O” face must be precious with somebody.
*stigmatized
Did he think about his employees himself?
Learn to code
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