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San Francisco\u2019s Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters<\/a> was all set to provide coffee catering services to Dreamforce<\/a>, a Bay Area conference hosted by Salesforce<\/a> that saw some 160,000+ attendees last year. Contracts had been drawn up, compensation agreed upon ($40,000), and everything seemed good. That is, until news broke that Salesforce had been contracted by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agency, leading Wrecking Ball co-owners Trish Rothgeb and Nick Cho to decline the pay day pending changes in the relationship between Salesforce and Customs.<\/p>\n As told by the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, Rothgeb and Cho had been contacted by George P. Johnson Experience Marketing<\/a>, the firm in charge of acquiring vendors for the conference set to take place September 25-28. They agreed on a $40,000 fee for the event, which would \u201cpay for [Wrecking Ball\u2019s] raw coffee supply for about two months,\u201d per Cho. Then on July 19, news came down that the nonprofit Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services<\/a> rejected a $250,000 donation from Salesforce due to the company\u2019s involvement with CPB, the agency the SF Chronicle notes is \u201cresponsible for enforcing the Trump administration\u2019s policy of separating the children of asylum seekers from their parents.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the article, the news has led to thousands of Salesforce customers signing a petition requesting the company end the contract. And to Wrecking Ball backing out.<\/p>\n But Wrecking Ball is standing by their decision.<\/p>\n \u201cBusiness is going to have to be the resistance we want to see,\u201d Rothgeb said. \u201cThat\u2019s the truth. You can\u2019t get anything done unless business is going to take a stand.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBecause we do occupy a thought leader position, there\u2019s more attention on what we do, and therefore there\u2019s a burden of leadership,\u201d Cho said.<\/p>\n Rothgeb and Cho state they would be willing to honor the original contract, under one condition:<\/p>\n It remains to be seen if Salesforce will respond to the pressure being applied by Wrecking Ball and their own customers. This story is developing and we will provide any updates here when they are made available.<\/p>\n Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Top image via the San Francisco Chronicle.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Wrecking Ball Turns Down $40,000 Salesforce Contract<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" San Francisco\u2019s Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters was all set to provide coffee catering services to Dreamforce, a Bay Area conference hosted by Salesforce that saw some 160,000+ attendees last year….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,67,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n“It feels kind of odd,\u201d Stephanie Barnes, a Salesforce spokeswoman, said Thursday of Wrecking Ball\u2019s action. \u201cThere\u2019s not a widespread thing here. This is a decision they\u2019ve made, apparently.” She said she did not know of any other contractor who has canceled a contract or refused to provide services.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u201cWe respectfully ask that Salesforce discontinue providing tools for CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),\u201d the two wrote. \u201cWe are requesting this discontinuation as a precondition of our agreement to provide coffee services at Dreamforce 2018.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n