Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce
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Re: Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce
#2This has the markings of a PR stunt. As a reader of the article, I'm very curious what the badges look like, as those are a legitimate cause for concern for security. Any legitimate reporting on this issue would investigate that detail.
Re: Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce
#3>“Right off the bat, security gave us a hard time because of our badges, they were different than everyone else’s badge. It didn’t have our name on it, nor have a nice lanyard, it was Brown [sic] and cheap quality rather than the fancier ones every other guest had.”
So, you make the charity-case badges look different, you choose the color brown for them(!), and you don't put a name on them ... that seems like poor planning, guaranteed to invite suspicion.
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Re: Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce
#5This has the markings of a PR stunt. As a reader of the article, I'm very curious what the badges look like, as those are a legitimate cause for concern for security. Any legitimate reporting on this issue would investigate that detail.
lol it worked for me -- this is the first I've heard of dev/Mission and it led me to look them up. (Hi Rick.)
As noted in my other post, they were a different color and didn't have the bearer's (or any) name on them, which is a questionable decision by itself.
Re: Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce
#6The badges were issued by Salesforce.
Re: Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce
#7> He credited Pineda with trying to straighten out the situation. “Angelica did a fabulous job, she did everything in her power to keep us inside,” Sosa said. But the two security guards, who Sosa described as a black man and Latina woman, ejected them.
Having read the entire article it seems this was a case of uninformed security grunts doing what they usually do. The race of the security guards gets mentioned as a sign of the times. Angelica in this case is the salesforce employee.
In the photo the girl in the red shirt on the back right looks to be wearing a lanyard with a brown string whilst the Salesforce employee has a blue one. From going to various festivals different colours and materials are often used to easily signify to security where you can/can't go. When I've been comp'd tickets before for events they did look different to those that were paid for. This in itself isn't out of the ordinary IMO.
What seems most questionable to me is the behaviour/attitude of the (third party) security company and not Salesforce (yet anyway).
A case of more details needed I think.
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#8Let 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.
Re: Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce
#9Let 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.
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.
Re: Low income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce
#10> He credited Pineda with trying to straighten out the situation. “Angelica did a fabulous job, she did everything in her power to keep us inside,” Sosa said. But the two security guards, who Sosa described as a black man and Latina woman, ejected them. Having read the entire article it seems this was a case of uninformed security grunts doing what they usually do. The race of the security guards gets mentioned as a…
Don't worry, the race of the conference attendees was also mentioned along with the race of the victims. It's to help progressives apportion blame.