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[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 hours ago

No way was this guy evil enough to run Nestle. The board was like, "mere adultery?? hold my beer.".

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What did he do that was inappropriate? Give them water?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 41 minutes ago

Let them breast feed a newborn

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

this the onion? they fired the ceo.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

They were paying them in actual money?

[–] Solarny@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

Nestle code od conduct paragraph 132/II: "There should be no love in Nestle. Any discovered love shall be banished immediately!"

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 4 hours ago

Nestle: Slavery and resource mismanagement are one thing, but we draw the line at fucking your secretary.

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Nestle actively uses child slave labor

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Preposterous! Great the company has morals and won't accept this. Killing people including babies is fine though, as is child labor, multiple major scams, environmental pollution, supporting the enemy in wars, etc. Nothing wrong with that.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 hours ago

Morality is something that applies between upper class white people.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is Nestlé The company that will con poor, uneducated mothers into believing that their baby formula is better than mother’s milk. They are not known for taking moral stances.

Odds are this is worse than a consensual affair.

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 5 hours ago

The older I get, the more I realize the "wisdom of the crowd" is dictated by useful idiots who don't want to admit or acknowledge that they've been conned.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 9 hours ago

Not firing him opens them up to a lawsuit from the subordinate and others. Money means action, so it could simply be that.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 12 points 21 hours ago

Given that an investigation discovered it... Yeah probably. But we'll probably never know.

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, unless it was homosexual. They are covering something up.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

He probably had some stock options vesting they thrye wanted to get ahead of. Nothing complicated, just standard greed at all costs.

[–] gaybriel_fr_br@jlai.lu 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What exactly is the problem if it was a gay relationship?

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 20 hours ago

For most people it’s not an issue and I doubt that was the case here, but I guess he is thinking the board is a bunch of conservative or right wingers who don’t want to work with a gay person.

But I’m guessing it was more of a rapey thing to get fired.

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

The issue is growing. It seems. I don't think it should be seen as a problem personally.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Or they just don't want to add more onto the pile of bad publicity.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 26 points 23 hours ago

More likely they wanted the CEO gone and this gave them an excuse.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

Nah they don't give a shit about publicity, or they'd do more to hide their culpability with so many deplorable things they do.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 15 points 18 hours ago

Nestle fucks you

[–] arin@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Wow 2025 Nestle has more of a spine than the US government. Treasonous traitors in office

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 13 hours ago

Capitalism.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

politics huh?