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
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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First we had Luigi.
Now we have Warehouse Luigi, a Waluigi, if you will.
Whole new meaning to NSFW. Never Safe From Waluigi!
Now Set Fire, Waaahh!
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.
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.
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.
Once we are done we can go to the executives' homes too.
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Funny enough even in fox news apparently people are calling it a fire insurance scam.
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?
It's standard practice to shut down a fire suppression system after the fire is extinguished: the water will cause more damage than the fire did if you don't. The owner is responsible for having someone on "fire watch" until the activated sprinkler heads are replaced and the system is put back into service -- which needs to be done by someone qualified to do so.
It sounds like they did everything "right" in that regard, they just didn't realize the guy starting fires was still there.
lol I didn't even think of this, hilarious
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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Big Milton Energy
Never noticed the dead plant before 😚👌
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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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No, I don’t think I will
[someone] was charged by federal authorities with arson of a building used in interstate and foreign commerce
So because they sell wares in other states, it's a felony? Not sure I agree with that.
I expect it’s a felony because it’s arson. It’s federal because they sell wares in other states.
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