Benioff joked about ICE while Salesforce stock faceplanted 43%

Salesforce stock is down 43% year-over-year and Marc Benioff decided the vibe needed… ICE jokes.

At a company event, the CEO reportedly cracked jokes about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and employees responded the only way corporate America allows: they set Slack on fire like it was a group chat after someone posts “thoughts?” about layoffs.

This is the modern workplace in one screenshot: your paycheck is tied to a ticker that’s eating asphalt, your CEO is doing open-mic night with federal-agency material, and your only recourse is to angrily react with emojis in a channel named #culture.

People inside reportedly flooded internal channels with outrage, because shockingly, turning a deportation machine into a punchline doesn’t land the way it does in a green room full of billionaires and PR handlers.

Meanwhile, shareholders are already watching value evaporate, and employees are watching the brand do that special corporate trick where it tries to be “values-driven” while also being “please don’t screenshot this.”

And before anyone yells “internal drama,” remember: when leadership can’t read the room, it usually means they also can’t read the market. If the top is doing bits while the stock is doing backflips into traffic, guess who gets the ‘strategic realignment’ email.