Salesforce stock cratered 43% so Benioff started doing ICE bits

Salesforce stock dropped 43% and Marc Benioff decided the real emergency was… testing ICE jokes on his own employees.

Not “how do we keep customers,” not “how do we stop layoffs from feeling like a hunger games spinoff.” Nah. Stand-up night, but the venue is Slack and the audience is people with mortgages.

Business Insider says Benioff’s cracking jokes about ICE lit up internal channels and set off the kind of workplace meltdown that only happens when morale is already face-down in a parking lot. When your company’s value is evaporating like a crypto bro’s personality, maybe don’t riff on immigration enforcement to the people who rely on you for health insurance.

Salesforce leadership loves to talk about “culture” and “values” and “Ohana.”

And the comedy here isn’t even that the jokes were edgy. It’s that CEOs truly believe being rich makes them funny. Like the Tesla Cybertruck, it’s expensive, loud, and everyone’s pretending it’s not embarrassing because they already paid for it.

Meanwhile, employees are watching their equity shrink, their workload grow, and their CEO treat internal comms like an open mic at the world’s saddest improv theater.

If your boss is doing controversial bits during a stock collapse, it’s not “bold leadership.”