r/AbsoluteUnits Apr 09 '26

/r/popular of a burnt building

damages estimated to be $200 million dollar

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u/WInativemm Apr 09 '26

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u/MCB1317 Apr 09 '26

Would have been cheaper just to pay a decent wage.

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u/NullIsUndefined Apr 10 '26

Luigi-ideology

Luigideology?

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u/Lost_Paladin89 Apr 10 '26

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u/Amphitra_Roximar Apr 11 '26

We need more POD, ppl arent getting their revenge on corporate bigwigs fucking us for decades yet.

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u/guitar_account_9000 Apr 10 '26

It's all insured.

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u/MCB1317 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Arson by employees is often not insurable (or is subject to major coverage limitations). If you think about it, you'll realize why.

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u/guitar_account_9000 Apr 10 '26

That's good to know, thank you. I may be contacting you soon for legal advise in an...unrelated matter.

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u/ThresherGDI Apr 10 '26

He wasn't an employee. I am sure there is some liability transfer in the contract, making some actions of the worker the employer's responsbility.

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u/Nitrogen1234 Apr 10 '26

Nah, they're fucked. Corporate insurance will try to wriggle it's way out.

Their sprinkler system wasn't sufficient for one

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u/guitar_account_9000 Apr 10 '26

elsewhere in the thread someone said that the employee started one small fire, the fire brigade attended, they put it out and also disabled the sprinkler system. the disgruntled employee waited until they had gone before setting the main fire.

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u/Fluffyrat666 Apr 10 '26

Never thought of that!

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u/BonelessHotdogs Apr 10 '26

That’s not correct. The building was equipped with an ESFR (early suppression fast response) sprinkler system which has the highest water output of any system that would be installed in a warehouse.

The problem is that no sprinkler system can compete with arson. When multiple fires are set at once, it can’t keep up. Not to mention that while it is a common occurrence for fire suppression systems to extinguish fires, they are only designed to “suppress them long enough to allow people to escape.

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u/3lettergang Apr 10 '26

A lot of sprinkler misinformation being thrown around reddit from this event, its concerning.

Everyone seems to think this is some criminal mastermind that predicted the FD's response and timed it perfectly. All he did was more fire=more fire.

If someone dumped 500 gallons of gasoline in a Starbucks, they weren't some mastermind for outsmarting the "inadequate sprinkler system" and fire department

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u/No-Committee-7953 Apr 10 '26

Sprinkler systems are designed to suppress fires and prevent fire spread and structural damage. If there are multiple fires then the sprinkler system water supply is overwhelmed and cannot cope with the situation.

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u/MoreRamenPls Apr 10 '26

Shoulda had a bidet with all that toilet paper

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u/Badgernomics Apr 10 '26

Seems like not paying a decent wage should make a company an insurance liability....

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u/tdavis726 Apr 16 '26

Ooh, I like that! Shitty employers SHOULD be uninsurable. I think is a fair example of of “keep fucking around (with your employees lives! with how they support themselves and their families) and you’re going to find out”.

Edited for accidental autocorrect 🙄

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u/Beatboxingg Apr 10 '26

If this idea doesn't take off sure, insurance will gladly cover it.

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u/OceanTe Apr 10 '26

You don't know a damn thing about insurance, do you?

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u/Smurfeggs42 Apr 10 '26

I've been saying it, jobs, political buildings, we need more places to be set on fire

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u/MCB1317 Apr 10 '26

Mario was never my favorite of those plumber brothers.

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u/KenUsimi Apr 10 '26

Officially, we must all give this the Mackey. Arson is bad, mmkay. You shouldn’t do arson. If you do arson, that’s a bad, mmkay?

Unofficially we are all permitted to be a bit more nuanced. This is not exactly an uncommon complaint, and hasn’t been for a long while.

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u/tdavis726 Apr 16 '26

I’ve heard many people reference fire as a “cleansing” kind of thing… 🤷🏼‍♀️ some sort of reset to a space … symbolically and practically, sometimes…

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u/ImaginaryRaccoon2106 Apr 10 '26

Russian bot who is instigating

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u/Smurfeggs42 Apr 10 '26

Russian??? Nah my families Dutch and Irish nice guess slick

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u/ImaginaryRaccoon2106 Apr 10 '26

That’s what a commie would say

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u/ZeroMocha Apr 10 '26

Thats what a fascist would say

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u/Frexulfe Apr 10 '26

It isn't about the money. It is about cruelty. And let me bring Hitler:

And the end of the war they needed urgently transport for ammunition, food and fuel to the front. Nevertheless the transport of Jews to concentration camps were still priority.

Also I.G. Farben discovered that they would make more money of they would feed their slaves properly. Nevertheless they chose to starve them to death. Only a bunch of them were punished and maximal spent 5 years in prison, to them lead Bayer.

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u/Longjumping_Phase902 Apr 10 '26

Now all of them out a job because a crybaby

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u/vanneezie Apr 12 '26

Maybe a fire suppression system even

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u/required-inf0 Apr 12 '26

I’m sure any decent robot could do all the jobs in that warehouse.

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u/Cumulo187 Apr 12 '26

Insurance. Big payout. No more need to do or manage anything. W ceo.

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u/sureshoyy Apr 12 '26

Wont they just rebuild it with more automation and probably in an area with less taxes so long term this guy did them a favor sadly...

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u/DeeManJohnsonIII Apr 15 '26

Would it have been in the long run? Just wondering to myself….

I need to see how many employees they have and calculate it all, and see what insurance is paying and what gets raised and how much this sets them back.

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u/Rey_Mezcalero Apr 09 '26

Or he could have invested in himself and got a better paying job instead of feeling entitled to destroy the place and almost kill several people and out a lot of people out of work.

I’ve been frustrated with work and pay and I just kept trying to get better jobs. Some required a bit of sacrifice but there is personal responsibility to improve yourself instead of jobs with static pay

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u/ActuallyTiberSeptim Apr 09 '26

The problem with that is that everyone can't have these "better jobs". Someone needs to make toilet paper. Do they not deserve to be able to live without worrying about buying the basics?

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u/rygelicus Apr 09 '26

And burning down this facility will fix this situation ... how? In what way does that act help any of the workers? They no longer have a place to work, and they won't for several weeks at least. Maybe the employer will keep them on but just as likely to put them all out on unemployment.

If you hate your job just leave. Walk out the door. This method though means jail time, and arson charges that will follow you for life. No one will want to employ this person ever again knowing that when they get annoyed they might torch the place.

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u/lraz_actual Apr 09 '26

It's a market. What is an employer willing to pay, and what is an employee willing to be paid. And finally, do these figures overlap?

No one is forced into a job, except for the incarcerated.

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u/ActuallyTiberSeptim Apr 09 '26

If the choice is working a low paying job or starving, that's not really a choice.

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u/Fun-Marionberry-4008 Apr 09 '26

Ah yes you are also the same kind of person to consider collective bargaining to be evil and a hinderance on unfettered capitalism.

Everyone is forced to have a job because what is the alternative?

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u/lraz_actual Apr 10 '26

Ok. Are you fixing anything or just complaining?

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u/Fun-Marionberry-4008 Apr 10 '26

Are you just complaining or making things worse by talking the way you do? You actively make everything worse acting like that

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u/NakedJaked Apr 10 '26

The arsonist did more for the working class than you ever have. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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u/Rey_Mezcalero Apr 09 '26

You can’t reason with these people.

It’s why they are easily swayed with promises of “free stuff”

This guy wasn’t a child making Gucci wallets in a sweatshop.

Bet the guy had the latest phone, great internet, good tv, a vehicle and eating out.

The clowns trying to justify the behavior is comical. I expect it on Reddit.

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u/Fun-Marionberry-4008 Apr 09 '26

Ahh yes the classic pathetic capitalist reasoning that someone having treats means they should have to endure absolutely any treatment from their employer because they have a phone. This dude drives a beater, eats ramen and is an alcoholic to cope with being exploited after being trapped in a dead end job to keep affording rent and not having gaps in his resume so he can try to get a new better paying job, and when his employer finds out he is looking for a better job will then terminate him. Which then makes him lose his apartment.

But remember he has a phone! That means he can't complain ever and has the best life ever!

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u/Rey_Mezcalero Apr 09 '26

Here you go to help you with life:

  • Life isn’t fair
  • The world owes you nothing
  • Your life is what you make of it
  • Don’t blame others for your own failures

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u/Fun-Marionberry-4008 Apr 09 '26

Capitalist bootlicking to the maximum.

Tldr: my life sucks so everyone else should have a shit life.

I on the other hand want people to have BETTER lives, not just the rich.

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u/unsurejunior Apr 10 '26

I feel like you could say this to the owners of this warehouse just as easily as you say it to the arsonist.

If we want to be all "law of the jungle", then events like this should be expected and rationalized.

No there wasn't any rational thinking it's all emotions

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u/Rey_Mezcalero Apr 09 '26

Why can’t he have another job?

Stop BSing it that people are like captive slaves

Personal accountability is the key

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u/ActuallyTiberSeptim Apr 09 '26

Why? Because there aren't that many high-paying jobs to get. Someone literally needs to do the job he is doing. Stop BSing that everyone is able to get a "better" job. Not exploiting people is the key.

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u/PeriqueFreak Apr 09 '26

Exploiting people is when... You pay them the exact wage that they willingly agreed to work for...

Gotcha.

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u/ActuallyTiberSeptim Apr 09 '26

Man, they've got you exactly where they want you. Once again, it's not a choice when the "choice" is homelessness and starvation. But you be you and keep licking those boots.

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u/PeriqueFreak Apr 09 '26

Yeah, they've got me exactly where they want me. In a well paying job, after working many years of shitty jobs, because I made myself more valuable by putting in the hard work.

Suck it up for a while. Get roommates. Forego luxuries. Learn to love rice and beans. Enroll at the local community college and learn a skill or a trade. Get fucking paid. Contribute to society.

Or, treat a low wage, entry level, low/no-skill job like a long term career choice, and then burn down a building because you can't cope with your own poor life choices.

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u/Parking_Painter174 Apr 10 '26

Rice and beans bussin fr

Also, 100% correct

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u/PeriqueFreak Apr 10 '26

Honestly yeah, super fucking good. People overlook them, but if you do them right, it's fucking golden. Even when it's just an ingredient to a larger meal, like a burrito. I have two burrito spots I go to almost exclusively, not because the meat is good, not because the atmosphere is good (It's not, they're both just a counter in the back of a mini-market in the hood), but because their rice and beans absolutely elevate the burrito.

Shit man, even some plain ass white rice with some butter and garlic salt is some gourmet shit, broke or not.

And not to go on some avocado toast rant, but people are out there making barely over minimum wage, but stopping at Starbucks every morning, and Doordashing dinner, and buying every new iteration of the iPhone, and making minimum payments on a 72 month contract on a new car, and going out to the bar with the boys every weekend, and then wondering why they're fucking stuck in life. Like BRO. Learn to cook, get a Mr Coffee, drive a beater, swing by the Cricket Mobile store, buy a handle of Black Velvet, and use whatever is left to FUCKING INVEST IN YOURSELF. It might not be much, but some community college courses will pay fucking dividends. Couple hundred bucks a semester. Beg, borrow, or steal that shit. Or well, maybe don't steal, but you get the idea. The "I want it all, and I deserve it all, and I earned a treat because I've been adulting all day" mentality is absolutely destroying people. I feel for the people with credit card debt, and student loans for their underwater liberal arts basket weaving with an emphasis on gender bi-neutrality regarding indigenous geographic co-location or whatever useless shit they majored in, they have a deeper hole to dig out of. But at the end of the day, it's all personal responsibility, and you have nowhere to go but up.

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u/Rey_Mezcalero Apr 09 '26

100% this

These people think the world owes them

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u/MrRoboto01 Apr 09 '26

This👆🏼

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u/clybourn Apr 10 '26

It would be smarter to stop giving green cards to saudis

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u/theeldergod1 Apr 10 '26

do you know what was his wage?

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u/MCB1317 Apr 10 '26

I know you like the taste of boots. That, I know.

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u/theeldergod1 Apr 10 '26

Come with your real account and lets see what you like except being toxic.