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

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      7 months 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.

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      7 months 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

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    7 months ago

    Worth mentioning that Drog Bruk translates to Road Pavement. There are multiple drogbruk companies in Poland, and you need to be sure you have the right drogbruk in your sights if you want to express your displeasure towards Piotr.

    Also worth mentioning, here’s his apology- however shitty of an apology it may be, one does exist.

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    7 months 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.

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      It’s also heavily implied the player knows the rich asshole, since the asshole funds part of the tournament. Meaning he could have gotten a signed hat at any moment but decided he wanted to steal one from a child instead. He then doubles down and laughs at the kid and everyone else calling them losers while threatening legal action against anyone who calls him out. I heard he has now contacted the player to get a hold of the kid to “make it right” so it sounds like his company is now holding his feet to the fire.

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    7 months ago

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

    -Conservatives!

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    7 months 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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    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“.

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      6 months 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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    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.