Apple VP leaves company after making off-color joke in viral TikTok video

Apple's vice president of procurement, Tony Blevins, has near the institution aft a TikTok video showed him making jokes astir women astatine a car show.

An Apple typical confirmed the departure to CNBC, saying "Tony is leaving Apple."

The departure was spurred by a TikTok video posted successful September, according to Bloomberg, which archetypal reported the news.

In the video reviewed by CNBC, Blevins is getting retired of an costly Mercedes Benz and helium is asked what helium does for a surviving by Daniel Mac, who has a transmission centered astir asking radical successful costly cars questions.

In the video, Blevins jokes that helium buys "rich cars, plays golf, and fondles big-breasted women. But I instrumentality weekends and large holidays off." The gag appears to beryllium a notation to a akin punctuation successful the movie "Arthur."

It was viewed 1.3 cardinal times, according to the TikTok page.

Blevins was a VP astatine Apple, which is simply a precise elder relation that reports to apical executives. His main relation was to negociate with suppliers to support the terms Apple pays for machine parts down, according to a Wall Street Journal illustration of Blevins from 2020.