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First we had Luigi.
Now we have Warehouse Luigi, a Waluigi, if you will.
Whole new meaning to NSFW.
Now Set Fire, Waaahh!
This won't end with wage increases
This will end in investment in metal detectors and pay downs and shit like that to ensure employees won't be able to come in with lighters anymore
And their crackdowns will piss people off even more.
Do it enough times and it will end with change.
New union tactic: start openly organizing, and threaten to burn the building down if they try to union bust
Unfortunately both them (and us) forgot that this is the kind of thing their new deal tried to prevent. We didn't get 8 hour days and 5 day weeks because we asked nicely and they felt generous. We got it because workers back then burnt down shit and the bosses were at a reasonable fear they were gonna get got.
We need to put the fear back into the rich again if we need to see real change.
Wait, that's just the old tactics
The state wanted to remove the rules. They didn't know the rules were there to keep them safe from us.
That's not a new union tactic, that's an old school union tactic. Organisation and unions started with riots and breaking shit.
Really heartwarming to see us go back to our roots. I honestly thought the system had managed to breed it out of us.
Once we are done we can go to the executives' homes too.
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Who would win?
One disgruntled boi with a lighter
or
A billion dollar company
Where's my stapler?
One? There are millions of us for every single one of them.
I… uh… unfortunately, I’m gonna go with the billion dollar company.
Insurance will cover most of the damage, the dude will end up in prison, and at most the worst that the company will suffer is higher premiums.
The higher premiums will cost the company almost as much as the arson. Insurance just spreads out financial risk over time; it's still a net loss for the insured.
I am hoping insurance will do all it can to deny and even then charge more moving forward.
Alternatively, the company heads will get scared knowing their house is flammable too.
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As much as I support the dude's sentiments, I gotta go with the billion dollar company winning on this one. He's not getting paid, likely facing prison time, fines, and legal fees, and the billion dollar company files an insurance claim.
As a singular instance, sure. But if people become inspired to organize to continue these actions across multiple industries, then we begin to destabilize the system.
He struck a blow, and showed people it is possible to fight back. That's a win in my book, regardless of the price he had to pay to achieve it.
I wonder if these kind of things become common enough would insurance companies start charging business higher premiums based on average employees wages because a poor employee is more liable to snap and burn the place down.
They can call it the “asshole tax”.
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I'm glad nobody was hurt, he waited until after midnight to set it. But maybe someone needs to call the fire marshals on the Kimberly Clark warehouses. I can hear a fire alarm at the end, and I'm no fire safety engineer, but it doesn't look like there are signs of sprinklers or other fire suppression systems?
Don't have the full article but there was fire suppression. Then the fire team showed up, evacuated the building, and, at the behest of the company, shut off the system to prevent further damage to the rest of the products as the fire team was handling the original fire.
Then the dude went around and started burning other pallets in different parts of the warehouse.
Waluigi here had a plan and executed it.
Should have paid them enough to live.
Oh, that's very interesting. If that's true, someone should tell Kimberly-Clark's insurers that they deliberately shut off fire suppression during a fire. Maybe this will actually cost them a few dollars?
lol I didn't even think of this, hilarious
I wasn't familiar with this, assuming it's the same incident
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/arson-suspect-california-warehouse-fire-193118944.html
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The initial estimate found the paper product inside the warehouse being worth $500 million the building itself being worth $150 million
Damn. Thoughts and prayers. Though it does suck for the people who lost jobs over this.
Nobody lost a job that was paying enough to live there. They should open a co-op in the ashes... Of course it'll still be profitable enough for the company to rebuild and refill the warehouse.
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Funny enough even in fox news apparently people are calling it a fire insurance scam.
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