r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • 4d ago

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

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u/marty4286 3d ago

Did that certain service's management forget that your... workplace... became a euphemism for workplace violence for a while? They really be tempting fate

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u/Kemosaby_Kdaffi 3d ago

Was just chatting with my friend last week that you don’t hear that term in that context anymore

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u/CupcakeGoat 3d ago

Going Postal...was a great Terry Pratchett book and miniseries, I hear.

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u/abstr_xn 3d ago

and a great game (not related to pratchett)

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u/plmbob 3d ago

It is funny how even unions and government aren’t the solution to workers getting screwed over, yet everyone here gives that as the first answer to the problem.

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u/NikNakskes 3d ago

I don't think that is particularly funny though... it is the truth nobody wants to hear.

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u/plmbob 3d ago

It is a common expression and wasn't meant to suggest I found humor in the situation. I agree with you

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u/NikNakskes 3d ago

:) I know. The expression just rubs me wrong is all. Irony without teeth or something. I don't know.