Estée Lauder, a global cosmetic company, fired its senior executive John Demsey days after he posted a racially offensive meme on Instagram.
Demsey, who served as the company’s executive group president, will leave the company and retire on March 4, according to a regulatory filing.
In a company statement, Estée Lauder said Demsey was told to leave the company after his post damaged “our efforts to drive inclusivity both inside and outside our walls, and do not reflect the judgment we expect of our leaders.”
Demsey posted a meme of a “Sesame Street” parody book cover in which one of the characters used the N-word, saying he “done got the ‘rona at a Chingy concert;” the “rona” referring to the COVID-19 coronavirus, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Following the backlash, Demsey posted an apology to his Instagram stating he was “terribly sorry and deeply ashamed that I hurt so many people.”
“The meme is the furthest thing I stand for and I never should have posted it,” Demsey said on his Instagram post. “Not only did I hurt many people whom I respect, the terrible mistake that I made has undermined everything I have been working for since I began my career 31 years ago.”
I don’t care about what he did, he should be embarrassed working for a company whose perfume actually makes me puke. Something they put in it sends me hurling. We’re in the midst of getting blown up and all Lauder cares about is their image. I have no use for them.
Meh!
Even Class A felons get more than one chance, for cryin’ out loud. Still, it’s a beautiful thing when the Left has to live by their own rules and eat their own dog food.
He wuz graduated from the company Cum Lauder…
@AbigailAdams: “…it’s a beautiful thing when the Left has to live by their own rules and eat their own dog food.”
Yes it is!
…but I’d prefer it if they ate their own 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 dog food!
fijel….what is that, Amish?
Who cares what he posted !! Some people have so much free time on their hands that they spend their days crawling thru Twitter, looking for absolute trivialities.
These trivialities are the clubs to hammer someone, with the sole goal of destroying someone’s reputation and career. These are your ‘influencers.’