Salesforce Is Down 43% and Benioff Chose ICE Jokes as Strategy

43% down and Marc Benioff still found time to make jokes about ICE like he’s doing crowd work at a bankruptcy hearing.

Salesforce stock has been getting absolutely body-slammed, the company’s under pressure, and employees are already living in that “please don’t be layoffs” purgatory where every calendar invite feels like a hitman’s knock.

Then the CEO starts cracking ICE jokes internally, and according to Business Insider, Slack basically turned into a digital walkout. Not “haha awkward” either — more like “are you kidding me, dude” levels of revolt.

The funniest part (in a bleak, end-times way) is how predictable this is. Companies love to preach “Ohana” until the stock chart looks like a ski slope, then suddenly it’s “culture is resilient” and “we’re listening.”

And it’s not just about taste. When the person holding the layoff scythe is also trying out edgy material, employees hear one thing: you’re not a human, you’re a line item — and the guy with the bonus is bored.

Meanwhile… regular people at Salesforce are trying to pay rent in cities priced like Monopoly squares, watching their equity shrink, and being asked to stay “mission-driven” while the top guy auditions for Cancelled: Corporate Edition.