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Salesforce, the cloud-based “customer relationship management” software colossus co-helmed by the definitely-not-Hawaiian Marc Benioff, is the latest in a slew of tech giants to lay off thousands of employees, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Per the WSJ, the company will be letting go of 8,000 members from its massive workforce, formerly referred to by Benioff — who, again, is definitely not Hawaiian — as the “Salesforce ohana,” ohana being the Hawaiian name for “family.” (Salesforce stepped away from using that and other Hawaiian terminology and practices back in 2019 due to cultural appropriation concerns.)

“It’s an unfortunate part that you have to say goodbye to folks who, in many cases, are your friends and you have relationships with,” Benioff, an original co-founder of the firm, told the WSJ. “But, ultimately, the success of the business has to be paramount.”

A fair point, at least on the surface. Present-