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Alleged context: Polish CEO Piotr Szczerek's company review bombed after taking child’s hat at usopen.

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[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago

Interesting that CEO’s are idiots globally. It’s almost like you have to steal from people in order to accumulate big money.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago

The lack of morals, ethics, and shame also help.

And then you get photographic evidence of them being just the worst, and somehow they're the victim and you're the bad guy for documenting how shitty they are. Fuck I hate these people.

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 57 points 3 days ago

This is TERRIBLE! That his Company is being DOXXED! Let the CEO LIVE in PEACE while he Steals from Children!

-Conservatives!

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

That is pretty much exactly what the guy's public statement about this incident said.

[-] YashaB@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago

A CEO has to do what a CEO has to do.

It is for the good of the stock owners.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 79 points 3 days ago

Fun fact: The guy's company produces paving stones, pretty handy to throw.

Fun fact two: Kid ultimately got another hat from the tennis player after the case got blown up and the player contacted him.

[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 240 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This attitude is probably what made him a CEO in the first place.

[-] greenskye@lemmy.zip 119 points 4 days ago

He doubled down when called out. Claimed 'anyone else would do the same' and threatened to sue anyone criticizing his actions. Zero remorse or reflection.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 27 points 3 days ago

Lol you can't sue for defamation if your actions are on film 🤣

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Sure you can, if someone lies about it. Though unfortunately for this piece of shit no one is lying about how vile he is.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

I wish he'd double over instead from being hit in the balls hard.

[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Also like he got it before it reached the kid's hand. So technically it was fair game and legal, but holyshit psyociopathically and shamefully immoral.

I bet he underpays his employees as immorally yet legaly possible thus increasing ~~slaveowners'~~ shareholders' returns as the successful CEO he is

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 187 points 4 days ago

Continuing to prove CEOs are leeches with no morals.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 116 points 4 days ago

The CEO wants you to know he won it fair and square

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 37 points 3 days ago

With that attitude, if you kill him it's perfectly fine. You won fairly, so it's legitimate.

[-] leftthegroup@lemmings.world 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah the logic doesn't hold up, even for them.

You don't see CEOs saying that Luigi is perfectly fine.

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[-] Sterling@lemmy.zip 68 points 4 days ago

Here's a contact form for his company if you'd like to give him feedback.

https://www.drogbruk.pl/kontakt/

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 days ago

Thank you, submitted:

Powinieneś się wstydzić. Jakiż jesteś małym, małostkowym człowiekiem.

I hope my sentiment made it through my translator.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days ago

Yup, as native Polish speaker i can tell you it does contain quite some disdain.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

Lmao they took the site down

[-] Sterling@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago
[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I bested a small child. Why won’t you worship me? Lol.

Thanks for that. It’s so much worse. Whether fake or not, it’s hilarious. e: it's fake, and hilarious.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 23 points 3 days ago

So like... is he taking challengers for the hat or what?

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago

It's always "winning" for these people against people (here a kid) that can't defend themselves. It's almost like a trait with these fucks.

And it's comically sad this has a huge draw for some statistically significant number of people.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Well, when the economy has been designed to empower and enrich the most selfish pieces of shit, for centuries, this shouldn't be a surprise.

Capitalism is, in fact, NOT the best type of economy for an ethical society.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 55 points 4 days ago

It's why they are CEOs and it's also why they get their company's to make so much money.

Multiply the behavior of stealing things from children a million fold and that's how CEOs make money for the company. They don't get to that position by being nice and adhering to morals.

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Remember after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the CEO of BP told reporters that "I just want my life to go back to normal?" Fuck CEOs.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 104 points 4 days ago
[-] Noblesavage@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

They see me rollin'

[-] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 25 points 3 days ago

Please mind some instances have rules against doxxing. Somehow we seem to have forgot about that one rule, and sure hope no one would use our research/factcheck community !dociekliwosc@szmer.info for such posts.

// Your friendly anarchistic Polish lemmy instance hosted outside of EU/US jurisdictions.

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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 76 points 4 days ago

"Drogbruk" means drug use in Swedish. Company name checks out.

What an absolute cunt. What could you possibly need so badly that you rip it from the grasp of a child, when you are a CEO.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago
[-] kautau@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago

Yeah look at the grin on his face, he enjoys knowing that he has it and others don’t, he enjoyed grabbing it from that kid, and he’ll smile anytime he looks at it or tells the story about how he took it. This is the mentality of the vast majority of CEOs

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

You don't become a CEO by being caring and considerate.

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[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Given the current state of things, they're being more entitled assholes. They're throwing their weight around harder because the powers-that-be and techbros are throwing away what they call DEI policies, and dusting off traditional hierarchies and stereotypes for restoration.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

Doesn't matter, they'll delete all the 1 star reviews afterwards.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Worthless prick

[-] meliante@lemmy.pt 19 points 4 days ago
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[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago

What’s up with the dude handing the kid a pen right after without even looking, like they know each other and this action was expected? Is that CEO the kid’s dad or something?

Because that changes the situation a lot from “gross capitalists do anything for personal gain and must be stopped” to “dad snags hat from his kid but it doesn’t matter because they’re all going home on the same plane, probably a private one because gross capitalists do anything for personal gain and must be stopped“.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Look at the kid’s face when he takes it. He’s heartbroken, says ‘no!’ and nearly starts crying. He spends the rest of the video trying to get the player to sign his ball instead. The pass-off of the pen appeared to be because pens for signing were being passed down – it wasn’t his pen. The boy not only didn’t get the hat, but his ball wasn’t signed (which appears to have been what he was waiting for, and the hat was meant to take the place of his ball being signed).

And even if it was his son (which it doesn’t seem to be), this is still arsehole behaviour – lean in and share the moment, don’t take it from him like this.

e: and if it truly was his son, that’s even more sad, because that means dad is acting like I’d expect a rude stranger to act.

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