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this is fake lol
I've just done a dive into this myself. It's not fake. The CEO is an arsehole and a bully. Luckily, the tennis player meet up with the boy later and more than made up for the arseholery.
You got proof?
The comments he supposedly said is hearsay but he deleted his social media accounts since the controversy so yeah lack of evidence is a form of evidence. https://www.primetimer.com/news/did-polish-ceo-piotr-szczerek-say-first-come-first-serve-following-viral-us-open-hat-snatching-backlash-viral-statement-debunked
Still an evil bastard though.
No, he didn't, here's his actual apology post from his company Facebook page.
every article I found on it was a bs corporate apology
I'm just assuming that he's not stupid and gutless enough to say what's on the OP on public and then backtrack on it. maybe he said both, idk
the most detailed story about this is I think here
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/polish-ceos-company-review-bombed-after-stealing-hat-from-a-child-at-tennis-game-3244263/
It says the initial comments were made in Poland's GoWork forum with apparently hundreds of people calling him out but the post has been since deleted. Also even if the comments really existed, perhaps it would be impossible to really prove that the commenter is really this CEO.
thanks, none of the articles I saw had the gowork forum info, just the bs apology