• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    “Piotr Szczerek, a Polish chief executive of a paving firm, said he was “convinced” tennis star Kamil Majchrzak had been “passing his hat in my direction”.”

    Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce93klk0jpzo

    (Also the kid got to meet Kamil later on and got another hat from him)

    I don’t know the validity of that claim in the original picture, but IMO the CEO is a lying sack of shit in this declaration. Look at the video. The way he snatched the hat clearly indicates he intended to get it before the kid could. He knew fully well what he was doing and his only regret is to have been caught on camera.

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      It’s a legit quote by him from a now deleted forum post on his website:

      “The recent incident at the tennis match has caused a disproportionate online uproar. It’s all about the famous hat, of course. Yes, I took it. Yes, I did it quickly. But as I’ve always said, life is first come, first served,” he claimed.

      “In the end, chin up, hats off, less venom, more sportsmanship.”

      Source

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          There can be sportsmanship now with others because he got his. Which is the only important part. Whatever happens after he gets his is “meh, whatever”

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      A polish paving company called Drogbruk

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        Drogbruk literally translates to Road Pavement, there’s at least twenty companies in Poland named Drogbruk.

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      The douche still has the hat and that’s unacceptable.
      If I were Majchrzak I would clarify he did certainly not ‘pass his hat in his direction’ and that he wants it back.
      Otherwise he can file a police report for theft.

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        A normal person who actually did the mistake he claims to have made in the BBC article wouldn’t be able to keep that hat because it would make them feel intense shame every time they looked at it.

        This CEO is a narcissist.

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          True, he will show it to his scummy friends and be proud while telling this nice anecdote.
          The hat has to return.

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    Thought experiment: how would our closest ape cousins deal with an individual like this in their midst?

    My guess would be: fangs.

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    These kids aren’t there by themselves. How do you not confront a shithead like that as their parent? Cause to me it sounds like we’re getting thrown out of here, junior but you’re getting that hat.

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      Some people don’t want to teach their kids that immediately going to violence is any way to solve things. The ceo is being tarred in the media and the kid got to meet the player and got a hat anyways so it seems like the parents made the right decision.

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        Yeah as a parent this kind of thing is tough. You don’t want to teach the kid it’s ok to let people walk over you but you also don’t want to teach them it’s ok to use violence. I’m not sure exactly how I’d react if that was my kid and I was sitting close…

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    He’s got some regrets now, but he is acting like it was all some big mistake instead of him being a fucking sears tower of feces. Get bent rich asshole, the world is not your oyster and we see right through your B’s excuses.

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      not regrets that he is an asshole, regrets that he wasn’t a more efficient asshole probably. More like “I should have covered my face better” or “I should have snatched it faster”

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    Bestest news cycle distraction, with free attention for CEO. The even bestest part is that a few days from now, magnanimous CEO will hold ceremony with full media coverage for how graciously selfless he is for donating the hat to a/this child. Hopefully, Cracker Barrel will not change their logo again to upstage him. Obviously nothing serious is destroying America at the moment.

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      This happened in Poland. What point are you trying to make? That a polish CEO was hired by the CIA to distract from Epstein? Take your meds.

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      That’s what the article I read say, he gave the hat back and apologized, still, gives feelings of he’s sorry he got caught, but not quite as craven as the op quote

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      can we make an income level exemption? i’m arguably the ceo of my flailing music business. we’ve made a total of like a thousand in revenues dollars over 30 years and given away way more than that in free services.

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        yea there are many small scale businesses with CEOs on top which are not generally assholes. I think a criterion could if the business has some billionaire shareholder then the odds that the CEO is an asshole significantly rises.

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    Yeah, read that he (once and only when caught, of course) gave the kid back the hat with some kind of apology. Being exposed worldwide as a dick really can shake a world.