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Apple Procurement VP Departs Company After Vulgar TikTok Comment

Tony Blevins, Apple's vice president of procurement, is set to depart the company after he made a crude comment about his profession in a recent...

www.macrumors.com

When asked what he does for a living, Blevins said, "I have rich cars, play golf and fondle big-breasted women, but I take weekends and major holidays off." He also touted that he has a "hell of a dental plan." [...]

The TikTok video was taken at a car show that Blevins attended last month in Pebble Beach, California. His remarks in the 25-second clip reference a line from the 1981 movie Arthur, where main character Arthur Bach describes his own career: "I race cars, play tennis and fondle women, but I have weekends off and I am my own boss."

Guy quoted a 1981 movie on a viral TikTok, people get offended and run to HR, he gets fired.

Demolition Man was a prophetic documentary.

 

[Pejo]

Don't worry, cancel culture isn't real so his leaving is probably unrelated to that.

 

[nocsi]

He got let go because he disclosed he worked at Apple. The company is adverse to this type of social media presence. You can build up a brand or publicly disclose you work at apple, but not both.

 

[ManaByte]

He got let go because he disclosed he worked at Apple. The company is adverse to this type of social media presence. You can build up a brand or publicly disclose you work at apple, but not both.

He wasn’t building a brand and he didn’t say he worked at Apple. Read the article it wasn’t even his TikTok account. It’s a guy who asks people with expensive cars what they do for a living. He quoted Arthur and people at Apple recognized him and went crying to HR

 

[nocsi]

He wasn’t building a brand and he didn’t say he worked at Apple. Read the article it wasn’t even his TikTok account. It’s a guy who asks people with expensive cars what they do for a living. He quoted Arthur and people at Apple recognized him and went crying to HR

Ok yea I just read it. Tech is going through massive layoffs right now w/ the looming recession so it's bad optics for a VP to be caught saying stuff like that.

 

[Crayon]

 

[jason10mm]

I want the cup size of every woman who complained listed.

Is it D cup and up just tired of the attention or the A-B cup ladies just jelly?

C cup of course is the goldilocks size.

 

[Jennings]

This won't affect my Apple buying habits. I'm still using Android & PC.

 

[ManaByte]

Ok yea I just read it. Tech is going through massive layoffs right now w/ the looming recession so it's bad optics for a VP to be caught saying stuff like that.

"Dear employees, please do not quote any movie made before the year 2016. Your blue-haired zoomer co-workers will find it a violation of their hug box safe space and you will be terminated for insensitivity. "

 

[Ownage]

"Dear employees, please do not quote any movie made before the year 2016. Your blue-haired zoomer co-workers will find it a violation of their hug box safe space and you will be terminated for insensitivity. "

Make that pre-2020.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

Guess he should have quoted from this Arthur instead

 

[Lasha]

Cancel culture is just a symptom. The complete lack of employment rights in the US that allows mega corps to dispose of people for any reason is the root cause. Feudal serfs at least had the security of being physically tied to the land which they worked.

 

[badblue]

Maybe he'll respond like this.

 

[Tams]

Ah, Apple. Such a lovely employer whom you should devote absolute secrecy to.

 

[gaming_again]

Ok yea I just read it. Tech is going through massive layoffs right now w/ the looming recession so it's bad optics for a VP to be caught saying stuff like that.

Bad optics? ‘Caught?’ SMH.

 

[ParaSeoul]

I want the cup size of every woman who complained listed.

Is it D cup and up just tired of the attention or the A-B cup ladies just jelly?

C cup of course is the goldilocks size.

If we do the same for penis size,would you live up to that 10mm in your name?

 

[anthony2690]

This seems like a super strange reason to be fired, can he appeal/take them to tribunal? I'd like to think he would take apple to cleaners, imagine firing someone for innocently quoting a movie from the 80s.

 

[Winter John]

Recently I have become woke, or "exalted" as we purified like to call ourselves. This man Tony's behavior is incredibly toxic. Imagine how traumatized men with small breasts will be when they read this. I hope he goes to prison for a very long time.

 

[hemo memo]

Normally I would be pissed at cancel culture but knowing how they got a humiliating and embarrassing and funny defeat going after Eminem calms me.

 

[AJUMP23]

Puritans were forgiving and worked with their heathen shipmates to form a reasonable government. They didn’t cancel people.

 

[ahtlas7]

Sounds like my kind of bro. I need to find where he hangs out. I don’t take weekends off though.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Cancel culture is just a symptom. The complete lack of employment rights in the US that allows mega corps to dispose of people for any reason is the root cause. Feudal serfs at least had the security of being physically tied to the land which they worked.

Let’s not go crazy - France has 8-month trial period and employee protections make people also incredibly resistant about switching jobs. So you need to find the balance.

 

[deriks]

That's a small day

 

[jason10mm]

If we do the same for penis size,would you live up to that 10mm in your name?

In a world filled with .22lr, I am a 10mm, yes. Not quite the BBC .45acp, but definitely hold my own

 

[ParaSeoul]

In a world filled with .22lr, I am a 10mm, yes. Not quite the BBC .45acp, but definitely hold my own

As long as you got the calibre to back your words by all means continue.

 

[AJUMP23]

I can see Tim Apple wincing when he heard about this. That guy is super image conscience.

 

[jason10mm]

As long as you got the calibre to back your words by all means continue.

I have at least two bullseyes to my name, attesting that I am, indeed, not firing blanks

I mean, I'm no Coolio or Nic Canon, those guys are belt fed!

 

[Doom85]

Puritans were forgiving and worked with their heathen shipmates to form a reasonable government. They didn’t cancel people.

Hard to be canceled when they had something else in mind for you…

 

[poppabk]

I mean he is an exec so he earns the big bucks but also is a company man 100% of the time he is in public.

 

[gaming_again]

I mean he is an exec so he earns the big bucks but also is a company man 100% of the time he is in public.

And… is he not permitted to act like a normal human being?

 

[Ragnarok]

At least Demolition Man world has the underground Dennis Leary society

 

[Cyberpunkd]

And… is he not permitted to act like a normal human being?

No, at least not in public. He should have known better. What separates juniors from seniors is exactly behaviour like this, guy acted like 25-year old in his first job.

 

[Melon Husk]

The smallest excuse to jump ship

 

[gaming_again]

No, at least not in public. He should have known better. What separates juniors from seniors is exactly behaviour like this, guy acted like 25-year old in his first job.

Typical corpo.

 

[poppabk]

And… is he not permitted to act like a normal human being?

Not in public. I would get fired if I said that and tagged the company I work for. An exec it's like everything they say is #apple

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Typical corpo.

And proud of it.

 

[ManaByte]

Not in public. I would get fired if I said that and tagged the company I work for. An exec it's like everything they say is #apple

Except he didn’t tag Apple. The only connection to Apple were the people who worked there and recognized him and then cried to HR that he sexually assaulted them with his movie quote.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Fucking, pussies.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

The story and the concept behind it is so unbelievable to me. Where I live this simply could not work. Getting fired for this. Lol.

Why would you even talk to strangers in the US when every word can lead to your demise.

 

[FunkMiller]

I suppose in this day and when he was a bit of an idiot to post something like that, when he works for a company like Apple…. but yeah, fucking ridiculous to lose your job over it.

 

[Frank Horrigan]

I'm an accelerationist. Fire more people for speaking on SM. Fire everyone. Ban any speech that isn't approved social messages of the day. No opinions should be allowed on SM at all. Censor everything.

Let's ram this to the conclusion of either Sm and the internet dying, or it becoming such a corporate approved, bland wasteland of thought that nobody gives a shit what's said on there.

 

[Crayon]

Puritans were forgiving and worked with their heathen shipmates to form a reasonable government. They didn’t cancel people.

 

[nocsi]

Bad optics? ‘Caught?’ SMH.

Industry-wide layoffs, recession. Give them cake? I'm just giving insight into what's going on

 

[PSYGN]

It's okay, he'll still be contracted out for negotations.

 

[K' Dash]

Yeah, that’s why I dress like a hobo and drive a modest car, even though I make a good salary.
I want to be invisible to those fuckers, I’ve seen enough peers lose their jobs for posting shit on social media or liking/commenting shit.

Stay away from social media, there’s only benefits to that.

 

[daffyduck]

I have at least two bullseyes to my name, attesting that I am, indeed, not firing blanks

I mean, I'm no Coolio or Nic Canon, those guys are belt fed!

Too soon?

 

[Arcane0ne]

 

[farmerboy]

This is some bullshit

 

[EviLore]

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Hahah. Fucking Hypocrites. Thank you for this, EviLore I had forgotten about this ad. Dumb cunts. Lol.