Warehouse worker sets warehouse on fire because of pay

[RennisDeynolds]

Now he doesn’t have to worry about money because he’ll be in prison for a good minute


Could always level up and find a better job. Stop being a brokie

25 cents an hour to do whatever task they put him up to in there, how's that for livable

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

A deflection that people use to wrongly attribute a person’s lowly state of affairs to moral failures as opposed to a corrupt system. We do not live in a meritocracy

The problem with this argument is a lot of folks make it out of poverty every day. Or is that a wrong assessment?

No one ever makes bad life choices right? Is that a wrong assessment?

Hell if we go by that argument, fighting the 'system' falls under bootstrap logic. "You just gotta fight the system breh." Meanwhile that also takes time and money.

 

[Umoja]

It's going to happen more and more often as people struggle to make ends meet.

What we're seeing is the breakdown of the social contract.

 

[Pazzy]

Born in 1996 or 1997. Gen z strikes again.

 

[hood b. goode]

Good ol bootstraps Coli at it again

First page full of bootlicking ass comments.

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" Thats exactly the attitude elites and politicans + republicans to have. With an attitude like that, they can cut even more of our community initiatives and social safety nets. Make healthcare more expensive, and ship even more of our tax dollars to Israel....where they have great healthcare and benefits from the US taxpayer.


"Just hustle and get a better job." Can't be saying this shyt anymore when they using AI to eliminate many of those jobs.

this attitude is why everyone is working themselves to the damn bone and people have zero leisure time, because corporations are jacking up the cost of everything. People shouldnt have to be one missed paycheck away from bankruptcy.

"Won't somebody think of Corporation X" They not thinking of yall, man.

Look at how bold these companies and organizations are getting in the age of trump. Laying off 40,000 workers and giving the new CEO a million-pay hike. Ruthless union-busting.

The greed is endless and Trump white house is stripping down this country for parts at this point....They not even pretending to want our votes anymore...ask yourself how they got so brazen and if peaceful protests are ever going to accomplish anything.

 

[hood b. goode]

I keep seeing "find another job" in here. What country are you all currently living in?

I agree it was stupid to burn the warehouse but it's 2026 not 2015. Folks aren't hiring. Average employee is stuck where they are at. Which is a perfect recipe for pissed off and miserable employees.

Fukking thank you, first bunch of comments made my blood boil.

Folks in here think they can "outhustle" and "outgrind" inflation, or a recession, or AI / a robot doing your job faster, more efficiently & at greater scale than you can imagine.

Head in the sand.

 

[hood b. goode]

 

[downtheline]

He got hot under the collar

 

[CopiousX]

And how much is that exactly? They already making $18/hr, way above minimum wage.

Why not just learn a skill that pays more?

Not really it's only a single dollar above minimum wage for California. I could see him surviving on that if he lived in Minnesota or St Louis or Atlanta. But at $18 per hour in California of all places , he's probably struggling to pay even a roommate since that amount won't even cover half the cost on an apartment. He lived in Ontario so he has trashy public transport, meaning he has to drive to work while gas is $6 a gallon. Can't even afford to live near his job at this income range.


Furthermore the dude was only 20. Plus he exists in one of the worst economies in American history. He doesn't have the years of work experience to pivot into something else, and can't afford to pivot into something else since whatever money he's earning is probably going entirely to his subsistence existence. That's a shytty existence

 

[hood b. goode]

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Not really it's only a single dollar above minimum wage for California. I could see him surviving on that if he lived in Minnesota or St Louis or Atlanta. But at $18 per hour in California of all places , he's probably struggling to pay even a roommate since that amount won't even cover half the cost on an apartment. He lived in Ontario so he has trashy public transport, meaning he has to drive to work while gas is $6 a gallon. Can't even afford to live near his job at this income range.


Furthermore the dude was only 20. Plus he exists in one of the worst economies in American history. He doesn't have the years of work experience to pivot into something else, and can't afford to pivot into something else since whatever money he's earning is probably going entirely to his subsistence existence. That's a shytty existence

And as I said before, people who make 6 figures are leaving Cali. Dude in the op could be making $25/hr, he'd still be poor.

Either stay poor or move states. Those are the only options

 

[CopiousX]

And as I said before, people who make 6 figures are leaving Cali. Dude in the op could be making $25/hr, he'd still be poor.

Either stay poor or move states. Those are the only options

Again you're offering non solutions to a problem. If he has a subsistence existence, where he doesn't have anything left over at the end of the month because everything he's earning is used specifically for his rent or his transport, where is he going to get the money to move to a different state?


That sounds like a recipe for homelessness. A flight to another state costs money. A uhaul truck costs money. A down payment for an aapartment in the new City costs money. And there's an almost one month delay between him applying for a job once he arrives and him getting a paycheck, so he would have to float almost $3,000 in expenses , which he is obviously incapable of saving

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Again you're offering non solutions to a problem. If he has a subsistence existence where he doesn't have anything left over at the end of the month because everything he's using is used specifically for his rent or his transport, where is he going to get the money to move to a different state?

That sounds like a recipe for homelessness.

What would you do if you were in his exact position?

 

[blockburna420]

this emotional fool decides to Catch arson charges and face decades in Prison instead of getting another job

My nephew caught an arson charge and he already had 2 previous felonies, he only did 5 years.

 

[#1 pick]

18 a hour in metro LA in 2026 probably feels like 7 dollars a hour.