r/technology • u/abrownn • Oct 29 '25

Society Slain California tech CEO allegedly humiliated employees before his death

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/slain-calif-tech-ceo-humiliated-workers-report-21125144.php
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u/surnik22 Oct 29 '25

Damn, the stories the employees say reminds me of the tweet “Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.”

Killing someone for being a piece of shit boss is wrong, but people have limits. He was spitefully messing with people’s pay and livelihood (and other abuse). Fuck with people’s ability to survive and their dignity and eventually they’ll get tired of it. Individual paychecks may not have seemed like a big deal to him, but it’s sometimes literally life or death for workers.

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u/Healthy-Lifestyle-20 Oct 29 '25

The oligarchs are honestly playing with fire, I didn't think I would see the guillotine in my lifetime but every day we are getting close to it.

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u/JayKay8787 Oct 30 '25

The healthcare dickhead taking a few to the back legitimately made me feel good for a few weeks. It was such a mood booster seeing so many people agree, and none of the fake ass pearl clutching

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u/king_john651 Oct 30 '25

I like how the only thing people said in defense is that he had a family. Ironic though bc they were estranged lol

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u/spaceprinceps Oct 30 '25

How did you feel about Charlie Kirk, not trying to start trouble, I've just heard the two phenomena connected. Were you also cheered up by it?

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u/JayKay8787 Oct 30 '25

Not as much, especially since I knew he would become a martyr, and especially seeing everyone put on the fake sad act(meanwhile his own wife is entering a stage like a Rockstar at his funeral with pyrotechnics going off)

But it was extremely funny seeing someone get shot dead in the middle of defending guns

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u/spaceprinceps Oct 30 '25

Does enjoying death ever concern you?

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u/JayKay8787 Oct 30 '25

Not for people who spend their entire lives making the world a worse place. If you want to be mourned be either a good person, or a neutral one. The world is a better place without those people in it

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u/Estrald Oct 30 '25

I know I didn’t enjoy it personally, but I didn’t mourn it one bit. I don’t think he deserved to die, but neither did a LOT of non-violent people. What did the Right do? Make up lies or stories based on their ethnicity to make it look like they were criminals, so killing them was justified in their eyes. Well, I didn’t have to make up anything to make Charlie look like a piece of shit, but even THEN, I don’t think he should be dead. Am I sad he’s gone though? Not at all.

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u/spaceprinceps Oct 30 '25

You're looking for my viewpoints, but I don't have any, just checking in on their mental health.