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An online rumor circulating in December 2024 claimed a group of employees resigned after allegedly pooping in their New York CEO's new Lamborghini as a way of showing him up for eliminating their Christmas bonuses.
Snopes received reader emails asking about this claim. For example, one reader inquired, "Did a bunch of workers quit after they pooped in a CEO's Lambo when he canceled their Christmas bonuses?" Another reader emailed, "There is a story going around that a New York CEO's employees pooped in his car and then everyone in the company sent in their email resignation letters at the same time. I would just like to know if that's actually true."
In our research, we quickly located videos showing social media influencer Robby Witt telling this story. Witt published the first part of the tale on his Instagram and TikTok accounts (@thesephew) on Dec. 13.
The second video, published on Dec. 14, told the story of how the employees who allegedly pooped in the CEO's Lamborghini all resigned.
One TikTok user's comment that received over 62,000 likes read, "Wow. Denying bonus and showing up with brand new car???" Another comment that also received tens of thousands of likes read, "A company can exist without a CEO but it can't exist without employees." Other comments referenced, either in jest or seriously, the case of Luigi Nicholas Mangione, the man Manhattan police alleged fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier in the same month.
However, the bios of Witt's Instagram and TikTok accounts revealed the truth, explaining he creates "60 second sitcoms" featuring "fictional stories and satire." A Google search yielded no news articles reporting on any similar stories. In other words, the story was not real. As such, we rated the rumor about the New York CEO as labeled satire.
Reached by email, Witt wrote, "The fictional story is meant to be an entertaining piece that satirizes out-of-touch employers (like one who would eliminate Christmas bonuses and use that money to buy a Lamborghini for himself). For the most part, this piece is inspired by the work of @lisabevolving and @corporate.sween, who do phenomenal comedy skits about modern American corporate workplace and the 'bosses' who run them." Witt also linked us to a piece from The Atlantic about engagement-bait videos, saying he believed the article stood as "the best take on the genre I operate in that I have seen."
4 Videos
As of this writing on Dec. 17, Witt had continued the fictional story of the New York CEO in a total of four videos. In aggregate, the four videos received at least 18 million views on Instagram and TikTok.
We transcribed the spoken text of the two initial videos, including this first one humorously referencing the New York CEO's Lamborghini as the "Turdinator":
A New York CEO is suing his employees because he alleges that they all took turns taking poops through the top of his convertible Lamborghini. Yesterday, he eliminated all of their Christmas bonuses and then today he showed up in a brand new convertible Lamborghini. With the CEO stuck in meetings all day, the employees went down to the parking underneath the building and paid off the parking attendant to look the other way, and then they took some laxatives so that they would be ready to blow.
When the CEO had time to go down to his car, he realized that something smelled, and then he realized that it was his Lamborghini "Turdinator" right in front of him. So he starts yelling at the parking attendant, "How did you let this happen? What happened?" And the guy's like, "I don't know. Nobody was here. I don't know what's going on." And he's like, "I need to see the security footage." And he's like, "Unfortunately, the security footage doesn't work. Those cameras, they just don't work."
The CEO goes back up to the office and he's yelling at people like, "Hey, is this about the Christmas bonuses?" And they're like, "We don't know what you're talking about but this sounds like a pretty crappy situation." And the CEO's like, "I'm going to figure out who did this. I called a tow truck and they're going to tow this to a lab, and we're going to do DNA testing on the poop, or whatever, and see if there's a way to figure out who did this."
The second video featured the part about the employees resigning — the specific rumor Snopes readers asked about:
The New York CEO who had his Lamborghini pooped in by his employees after he canceled their Christmas bonuses has just learned that they have all resigned. Literally, every employee from the sales staff to the shipping department emailed in their resignation to the CEO at the same time. The former employees are saying that the business will now grind to a halt as no customer will be receiving their orders in time for Christmas or their orders at all.
While a few of the employees did take other jobs, the rest of the crew is sticking around, pooling their savings and they're gonna start the exact same company without a "d-bag" at the top. The CEO is in panic mode and he's putting up these job postings trying to fill these vacant positions but all he's getting back are these AI-generated resumes that these old employees are pushing towards him to waste his time so that he can't actually fill the positions.
The sales staff is confident that they'll be able to bring all the clients from the old company to the new company and leave the CEO with zero revenue, which will effectively make him unemployed. And then he'll have to sell his Lamborghini but nobody really knows what the resale market is on a pooped-in Lamborghini.
The third and fourth clips continued the tale, telling of the troubles faced by the company's leader as he attempted to keep the company afloat.
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources that call their output humorous or satirical.
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