It appears that someone at a Kimberly Clark warehouse is feeling very underappreciated by his employer.
They burnt down a 1,2 million square foot (111,000 m2) warehouse and shared the whole thing on social media.
I'm not sure that I'm particularly upset by his behavior.
Many workers’ pay is effectively frozen in an unforgiving labor market that hasn’t seen any meaningful increases in wages in decades. Meanwhile, the cost of living — not to mention the price of gas — continues to rise, making it difficult for low-income households to squeeze by.
One strategy we wouldn’t recommend is to set a 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse filled to the brim with toilet paper and other highly flammable paper products on fire — which is exactly what a disgruntled employee at a paper products facility in Ontario, California did earlier this week, as the LA Times reports.
The resulting fire, which started just after midnight local time on Tuesday, was enormous, requiring 175 firefighters and 15 fire trucks to put it out.
And if you really, really can’t keep yourself from watching the world burn, we do not, under any circumstances, advise you to film yourself while doing it — which is also what 29-year-old Highland resident Chamel Abdulkarim has now been accused of doing.
The NFI Industries employee was promptly arrested in connection with the blaze after a video showing a man lighting tall stacks of toilet paper on fire went viral online.
“All you had to do was pay us enough to live,” the man could be heard saying in the video.
We now have a corollary to that old adage, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
People who own warehouses full of highly flammable paper products should pay their employees enough to live.
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