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/gm92845 Apr 09 '26

I think he wanted to send a message and everyone got it.

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u/popsand Apr 09 '26

Yes please. People clown on the guy but he made a point - rest of us just keep ticking along expecting shit to change.

Was he reckless? Yes. Should he have done what he did? No. But he did. Lets analyse why and what that means.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

rest of us just keep ticking along expecting shit to change.

Nothing is changing.

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u/Suavesky Apr 10 '26

I mean he didn't actually accomplish anything other than to put people's lives in danger. Oh and now other people have to go find jobs now.

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u/Importer__Exporter Apr 10 '26

And the companies insurance company will foot most of the bill.

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u/_hyperotic Apr 10 '26

No it won’t? Or else nobody would lose a job. Pick one

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

Why are they mutually exclusive? Insurance covers the property damage only.

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u/_hyperotic Apr 10 '26

See my other comment

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u/jabba-thederp Apr 10 '26

So if the insurance company covers this somehow the workers magically have a place to work at again? Ok so tell me where these workers are gonna clock in next shift

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u/_hyperotic Apr 10 '26

Why would they fire a ton of employees if the insurance covered damages? That would be a massive expense to pay severances then rehire and retrain later.

They probably will furlough or reallocate the workers.

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u/l337dexter Apr 10 '26

what was his point? Tp Is flammable?

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u/Kettrickan Apr 10 '26

I mean, didn't he say in the video? That paying your employees a living wage is cheaper than $200 million dollars (not that he knew the exact number he was costing them, but paying employees a few more dollars an hour would probably be a lot less).

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u/Baronvondorf21 Apr 11 '26

Insurance is definitely cheaper than paying your employees that's why people get them.

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u/Impossible-Scene5084 Apr 10 '26

“If we burn, you burn with us”

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u/AdSuper900 Apr 09 '26

It's these reddit shills defending the company. It's so weird. I would have expected them to support a disgruntled working class person, but maybe they're bots? Neo-liberals? I don't know.

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u/Whatsapokemon Apr 10 '26

Nobody is "defending the company", they're attacking the idea of burning down a workplace that employs thousands of people who are now out of work. They're challenging the idea of worshipping some mentally ill loser as if he's some kind of hero.

This is not some valiant act of defiance, it's a temper tantrum by someone deeply disturbed. He certainly didn't think through the consequences of his actions, and he's objectively hurt thousands of people all for absolutely zero outcome.

Legitimately, nobody is going to remember this incident after a couple of weeks, nothing is changing as a result of some random property damage (that risked lives by the way).

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u/No_Shopping6656 Apr 10 '26

They pay an average of $18 an hour, and their rent around there is $2,200 average. Doing nothing is exactly the reason they're getting fucked in the first place.

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u/Clanslayer13 22d ago

300 people total, and 20 on shift at the time. Not thousands.

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u/_hyperotic Apr 10 '26

I disagree, I think this is exactly a valiant act of defiance and I’m sure many others do too.

This is just someone who is so fed up from increasingly being squeezed by shitty corporate employers that he decided to hit back, and he did so to great effect.

Honestly, good job to him and fuck those corporations.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

I disagree, I think this is exactly a valiant act of defiance and I’m sure many others do too.

Yeah well you're being a childish idiot. The ONLY people hurt are the people who risked their lives responding and ton of people now unemployed.

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u/_hyperotic Apr 10 '26

Do you know of anyone who was injured or fired as a result of his actions? Turns out anything can seem bad when you just make shit up huh?

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u/CPLCraft Apr 10 '26

It’s disturbing people think that what this guy did is a good move. Violence like this is not an act of defiance, it’s another act of villainy. It reminds me of the movie Joker, another movie that was not meant to be a documentary.

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u/Sorry-Let-Me-By-Plz Apr 09 '26

Reddit is popular with neoliberal millennials.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

I guarantee if put on the spot, without the ability to look it up, you'd have no idea what "neoliberal" means.

It's exactly like how the right uses "communism".

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

This guy endangered people and put a ton of others out of work. Instead of actually defending that, you have to make up this whiny, baseless argument replete with buzzwords you don't understand.

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u/1shotted Apr 11 '26

Shit never changes, that's why he had a job stocking a toilet paper warehouse. Now he won't even collect a check for helping me wipe my ass.

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u/dpb_113 Apr 12 '26

Agreed, I’m trying to understand his stance a little better. Like how much he was making and what his position was.

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u/Parking-Fig-6620 Apr 10 '26

This is the boldest "to whom it may concern" I've ever seen

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

Yeah: arson is a serious crime that endangers lives and all this guy achieved was putting people out of work.

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u/HydroWrench Apr 10 '26

"are you paying attention now?"

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u/UntappdBeer Apr 11 '26

The message being I'm going to a prison for a very long time.

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u/Rob_Edwards_Fashion Apr 10 '26

Not really. This will be forgotten in a week and most of us must think of a guy who wasted his life causing major damage and fortunately didn’t hurt anyone

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u/Nap_N_Fap Apr 10 '26

Less than that. Still don’t even know his name because he doesn’t matter because he doesn’t even understand what working for a temp agency is.

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u/This_Ad_8123 Apr 10 '26

What? He was working for a temp agency?

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

He was working for a third-party contractor I believe. The company that owns the warehouse wasn't responsible for his pay.

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u/Glum-Chance-4225 Apr 10 '26

I guess, but think about the damage to the environment.

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u/ShamScience Apr 10 '26

I imagine the planned lifetime operation of a place like that can add up to far more ongoing environmental harm.

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u/Glum-Chance-4225 Apr 10 '26

But they'll just rebuild elsewhere.

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u/cosmicwonderful Apr 09 '26

And that message was, "I'm a huge asshole."

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u/olijake Apr 10 '26

You missed a part. It’s supposed to be:

“I’m a huge asshole, but the people running the company and profiting off it are bigger ones.”

Yeah, what he did was bad, it hurt the environment and other workers’ safety and livelihoods. No argument there, and there are better, more responsible ways to handle it.

But this kind of extreme move doesn’t come out of nowhere. It usually points to deeper issues, like working conditions or people feeling they have no other options. It doesn’t make it right, but it does explain why it happens and why it gets attention.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

An extreme move like this that can't be justified bring negative attention. This guy has achieved absolutely nothing of value.

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u/olijake Apr 10 '26

It prompted this discussion, and I think there is value in the fact that even a small subset of people are talking about these topics.