• blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Well insurance only pays out on the value the retailer bought their inventory for, not the sticker price. Yeah they’re getting a lot of money but rebuilding inventory and a new warehouse is probably more money. And Insurance companies might start considering underpaid employees as an insurance liability.

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      19 hours ago

      And Insurance companies might start considering underpaid employees as an insurance liability.

      That’d truly be righteous but I suspect they’ll start expecting more surveillance, security, and fire systems instead.

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        They turned the fire suppression system off once the firefighters arrived, reportedly. I hope the insurance company denies their claim. Seems like an act of God to me.

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          And require more workers who, after a certain amount of time underpaid, might very well be too indifferent to notice certain systems were down when another one of these suckholes goes up in flames. Dunno. Could be.

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      18 hours ago

      Assuming it wasn’t a company owned warehouse, the landlord will probably be making an argument that their disgruntled employee makes the fire their fault.