News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce.

Re:Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected fro... by yardie on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:19PM (#15697659)
Let me guess. Salesforce will blame the guards. Because the workers with the least amount of influence share an inordinate amount of blame. Some platitudes about being a welcoming company when clearly they weren't. Finally, a small donation to appears the media. And things will continue on as usual.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected fro... by jaymzcampbell on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:29PM (#15697776)
The security guard doesn't exactly come across as lacking influence:

> That’s when the male guard reportedly told the students, “You don’t belong here,” and, allegedly, “Your kind don’t belong in here.”

This whilst the Salesforce employee was trying to convince him to allow the students to stay.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected fro... by alexanderstears on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:20PM (#15697675)
The guards were the ones who told the students they didn't belong there and the ones who made the determination to eject the students.

Unless Salesforce commanded the guards to eject the students, the guards failed to use their judgement properly and they failed to handle the situation gracefully.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected fro... by yardie on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:42PM (#15698436)
The guards have a watch commander who is supposed to make the judgement call. The watch commander was given instructions on who was and wasn't supposed to be there, most likely from Salesforce's on head of security, which he relayed to the guards.

I imagine Salesforce created a standing order to have any removed that didn't have the correct badge. This was passed on to the watch commander and, unless Salesforce intervened, if asked for clarification by the guards the watch commander would re-iterate the standing order.

[ Parent | on HN ]