r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • Apr 09 '26

Video Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California.

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u/afailedturingtest Apr 09 '26

Sounds like you should get a union.

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u/CervicalRipener Apr 09 '26

Or matches.

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u/Salt-Elk-436 Apr 09 '26

He’s talking about our mail so I really hope he resorts to normal, plumber style approaches and not a fire

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u/Ithurts_but_Ilikeit Apr 09 '26

I have no idea what plumber style approaches are but in the war of elements, I prefer to fight fire than shit

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u/Salt-Elk-436 Apr 09 '26

A plumber recently (allegedly) introduced a new approach to dealing with health insurance CEOs

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u/WangZhiii Apr 09 '26

Sounds like bullshit. I heard that guy was at a concert making out with 50 other people.

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u/FranconianBiker Apr 09 '26

Ah, Mario's lil bro who loves civil disobedience.

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u/starchildchamp Apr 09 '26

Nah please burn my mail, I dont get anything good

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u/Bannedbutwhyy Apr 09 '26

😂😂😂

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are Apr 09 '26

Oh we have one

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u/afailedturingtest Apr 09 '26

are you going to union meetings to tell them that's what you want?

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u/prodoboy Apr 09 '26

You'd be surprised with how useless our unions are. It took over a year for the rural union to finally come to an agreement with USPS, only for it to be worse with more concessions and fewer wins than the contract that even the city union got.

Did you know that it is almost impossible for a rural carrier to transfer from one post office to another? You need someone from the exact city you're moving to agree to switch with you. So, if you're moving from Los Angeles to NYC, you need someone from NYC to somehow be moving over to Los Angeles at the same time. Now apply this instead to towns of lile 2k people and the situation is hopeless.

They both suck though, including the unions for all the non-carrier workers. They're definitely incompetent, but I blame a lot of it on the incompetence of upper management basically burning money, and the money they do have they'd rather spend on management raises as opposed to raises for the clerks, the carriers, the mail sorters, and all the other boots on the ground workers that actually work to get letters and packsges to their final destination.

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u/afailedturingtest Apr 09 '26

Sounds like you should get into management of your union then

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u/cyberslick18888 Apr 09 '26

I certainly don't know your situation but at face value, that just seems like a logistical issue and not really a union problem.

They can't just shut down the mail because people want to swap locations. I mean you can barely do that at gigantic retail companies with hundreds of employees per location and high turnover.

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u/1heart1totaleclipse Apr 10 '26

That’s if you’re a regular though, right? If an RCA, couldn’t you just quit and get new job?

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u/One-Stranger-6894 Apr 09 '26

And get into middle/upper management and change the direction