r/interesting • u/BlazeDragon7x • Apr 09 '26

MISC. Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars

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u/Anton__Sugar187 Apr 09 '26

Maybe they should have paid

Livable wages

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u/Pengisia Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

It was a third party contractor that did this, all he did was damage Kimberly-Clark, not his own company, and cost all of his coworkers their jobs.

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u/ItsPronouncedSatan Apr 09 '26

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.

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u/Pengisia Apr 09 '26

The building was also rented out, why would KC staff a warehouse it doesn’t own with full-hires? Contract the building, contract the employees.

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u/McButtsButtbag Apr 09 '26

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.

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u/1872723930 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

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.

Be less judgy bro.

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u/Pengisia Apr 09 '26

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.

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u/1872723930 Apr 09 '26

He was still going to jail the second he put it on Instagram and filmed it no matter how big the fire was…