In the lawsuit, Garza claimed he met with Bally in November 2024 to discuss his salary. During the meeting, which Garza allegedly recorded, Bally described Campbell’s as “highly process(ed) food” and said it was for “poor people.”
Garza claimed in the lawsuit that Bally made racist remarks about Indian workers, whom he called “idiots.” Garza said Bally also told him that he often went to work high after consuming marijuana edibles.
I really badly want to know how a conversation about a raise turned into whatever the fuck was going on there. Just how did that get so far off topic that he decided to spill his secrets? Shouldn’t Garza be in charge of interrogations somewhere?
As someone who has occasional one on one meetings with executives, I’m not surprised. They tend to ramble and talk about whatever they feel like. Admittedly I haven’t met anyone who would say this sort of things, whether because they aren’t thinking it or they are on guard somewhat, but a lot of those conversations go into weird territory, like the executive really wants some friends and treats any one on one meeting as getting with some like minded friend.
Clues in the piece the guy was high
Marijuana isn’t a truth serum.
I also go to work high on marijuana edibles, and I don’t do shit like this.
Good step, but they need to fire Garza’s old manager and offer Garza a settlement, alternately, his old job back + back pay and a nice bonus.
Nah, they hated what the guy did still. They may have tossed the VP under the bus to try to mitigate the backlash, but it was still Garza that exposed the mess to the public in the first place, and that’s just way worse for the bottom line than being snobby and racist and bad mouthing your own product.
So they hope attention stays on ousting the VP in the court of public opinion, and handle Garza in more formal channels, and likely win if Garza recorded without informing the other party, particularly making that conversation public.
