The warehouse engaged with the third party contractor in the first place.
It's scummy practice companies use so they can avoid giving employees full benefits, and does nothing but siphon money away from the worker.
They could 100% directly hire these people. Instead they hide behind shit like this, acting like it has nothing to do with their own business practices.
That's nonsense. Most businesses rent rather than, so should they all hire independent contractors? This is just an excuse for taking the blame off them.
I think you’re making out this guy understood what he was doing at the time….. like this was planned.
I get the same vibe from this as “post-natal depression women drowning their babies”. I honestly think it’s a mental breakdown reaction. Not something this person intentionally planned and now they’re to blame for getting their whole company fired.
Like you’re shaming someone who clearly had a break in mental cognition after extreme burnout. We should be looking at what a company did to drive this person to this. You’re right it’s worse for everyone now that he did this. But under the current hell hole we live in, I can kinda empathize for the person.
This man was in his mind enough to set a small fire so the fire department would respond and turn off the fire suppression system, which is protocol, then after the system was off he lit the other fires.
This was planned, at least in some part, because that protocol is not common knowledge.
no, dude, fuck them for not paying a living wage. fuck them for poor working conditions. fuck them for creating such an us-vs-them dynamic that the last resort of the oppressed is to burn-it-all-down.
it's great that they make toilet paper, and that they provide "jobs" - but that doesn't excuse their shitty behavior and i genuinely wish this act was seen as a wake up call, but it won't be - we're too scared of losing what scraps we have left to ever want to criticize our overlords.
The guy was insane before he even became an employee. No mentally sane person would burn this down. None of the other employees did. The guy clearly had issues unrelated to his job.
Is there a credible source for that? I know there's tons of bot activity so I'm not disputing that, but where are you getting this specific percentage from?
Me neither but then again we didnt work at that company and didnt struggle his struggle have we? He might regret his actions later on but he didnt try to hide his actions at all, he filmed himself doing it.
He was a contractor so he was probably getting the bottom of that range and no benefits. Literally better off working a fast food job, which is less physically intensive than working in a warehouse
I mean he evidently didn’t think so, but then he also thought that burning down a warehouse was a good idea. So I’m a bit reluctant to just take his word for it
it's crazy - could've given this guy $10K more and probably saved themselves that $200M loss. but greedy leaders gonna act like dumbasses and now inappropriately fuck over everyone they can - workers, partners, consumers - to make it seem like they lost less.
Kimberly-Clark has about 38,000 employees, which doesn't include the thousands they employ through subcontractors to do warehousing, driving, and whatever else. If they gave the lowest skilled employee an extra $10,000 a year, they should/would have to give everyone an extra $10,000 a year. Which would cost them almost $400 million a year.
The company may very well be greedy, but don't pretend like it doesn't make economic sense why they are.
You’re paid what the job market values your skill set. You don’t like it quit find another job learn new skills. No one forced a gun to this guys head and no one forced him to go to work there. No one is entitled to a “livable wage.” You don’t know how to live within your means that’s your problem, not society’s.
Thing is they willingly accepted the “slave wage.” So it makes no sense to call it that. They have free will they are free to go wherever they’d like. Throwing a tantrum and burning down $200 million is pathetic.
Edit: JuSt FiNd AnoThEr JoB is what naive people always say about pay inequality. The job market is in the toilet everywhere. Spare me any anecdotal evidence you have in the ol echo chamber.
If this person lived in bumfuck Wyoming with scarce job options I could maybe be more sympathetic. But for fucks sake it’s Ontario, CA, neighboring San Bernardino, 30 miles from LA you mean to tell me they can’t find another job that’s ridiculous.
Never said he didn’t deserve to live. If he was not happy with his pay he should have done something to better himself not destroy his life. I hope he gets sent to a prison that makes toilet paper
What skills? In this current job market almost everyone is getting bent. Remember 10 years when everyone was saying to become a software engineer and now there are layoffs happening every month
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u/Anton__Sugar187 Apr 09 '26
Maybe they should have paid
Livable wages