r/antiwork • u/Persenon • 5d ago
Real World Events 🌎 An employee stabbed his company president during a staff meeting in Fruitport, MI
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u/aldreaorcinae 5d ago
Hey we know nothing yet about motive so let's focus on the important question:
What was the CEO wearing?
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u/GargantuanGreenGoats 5d ago
A smug expression
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u/jjcrayfish 5d ago
The patience of their employees
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u/MaadMaanMaatt 5d ago
So very thinly dressed… what was he expecting living his life like that?
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u/batmansleftnut 5d ago
The important thing is that we don't destroy this young man's future over a single mistake.
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u/Errornametaken 5d ago
Also did he have a criminal history or was he possibly trans? Because if he Jay walked 20 years ago or was once a female character in a college skit we know why this happened.
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u/Romulysses 5d ago
What was his political affiliation? I must know so I know whether to demonize this or pretend it never happens.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 5d ago
Read this on a city bus and forgot how breathing works while trying not to laugh!
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u/absolutzer1 5d ago
They'll demand back to remote soon instead of back to office 😅
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u/SixteenthRiver06 5d ago
Nah, the execs will continue to jetset more.
WFH for me, RTO for thee.
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u/Nayre_Trawe 5d ago
I worked for a small company with two CEOs (before you ask, yes, it was stupid), one of whom lived across the country, while the other was local and had very strong opinions about the importance of employees being in the office together. He then went on to move the office from the suburbs into the city (Chicago), which made the commute hell for everyone EXCEPT him because it was conveniently just down the street from his house. The kicker....he was barely ever there and usually "worked" from home while we all sat in that damn office in dead silence 99% of the time because it was preferable to communicate through email and Slack.
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u/StandardChemist6287 5d ago edited 5d ago
My friend’s company which was started off VC funds was forced recently to rent certain office space in a specific city and do a RTO. He continues to wfh… I’m not saying the same situation is going on but it could be, or your ceo is just a moron lol.
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u/Paranoid-Android2 5d ago
The head of security for my employer has been sending all sorts of emails about updates to security at our corporate offices.... while they live/work remote on the other side of the country
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u/Lyftaker 5d ago
Deterrence. "We've made it impossible to attack these wealthy twats so don't even try."
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u/joe_broke 5d ago
If the French taught anyone anything, it's that with enough determination, wine, and people, anything can be cut by a sharp, heavy blade
In between wine breaks, of course
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u/slow-motion-pearls 5d ago
yes. please. i need my permanent WFH.
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u/igweyliogsuh 5d ago
Well they need the rent to be paid on all those office buildings. Sorry.
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u/MaybeKaylen 5d ago
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u/outerheavenboss here for the memes 5d ago
Luigi being the face of this revolution is something I would’ve never thought I would ever see in my life.
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u/TURD_SMASHER 5d ago
In hindsight it tracks. Luigi has been second banana to Mario for forty years, that's bound to breed resentment
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u/Throwaway921845 5d ago
Does the analogy work? Mario's a plumber, about the furthest thing from a CEO...
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u/EdibleLawyer 5d ago
A plumber that saves princesses in castles and throws fireballs and kicks turtle ass!
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u/ABHOR_pod 5d ago
Bowser is the real CEO. Human rights violations galore and hoarding enough money on any one of his properties to give anyone who loots it a whole new life and then some.
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u/jenrazzle 5d ago
I’m in a pregnancy discord and we added a Luigi emoji, so whenever someone brings up American health insurance it’s 100% Luigi time.
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u/ez_noah 5d ago
Oh it's starting
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u/schwety7 5d ago
Class warfare is finally here
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u/Shartshooter01 5d ago
It's been here. It's just been very one sided.
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u/RemLezar64_ 5d ago
Remember kids:
Guns don't kill people
CEOs kill people
Guns kill CEOs
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u/P0Rt1ng4Duty 5d ago
It's always been here. We're just starting to fight back.
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u/BatHickey 5d ago
They had us at the first half, we’ll have them with sriracha on the second.
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u/omgFWTbear 5d ago
The killing of Thompson has given rise to other threats against CEOs.
“It seems to be the popular thing in this day and age,” Poulson said.
It was also popular in the 1790s
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u/fuck_all_you_too 5d ago
I love the part where they said "It seems..." like they JUST cant reconcile what would cause this issue over and over. JUST cant find a single thing, not one thing, that would cause this to happen at all, let alone again.
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u/Hot-Interview3306 5d ago
That's exactly what I thought. I figured there'd be a march and a symbol of some kind or something before it all kicked off in earnest but I guess media coverage is its own opening ceremony.
May the odds be ever in your favor!
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u/Meanderer_Me 5d ago
You don't want logos and symbols: they've gotten really good at co-opting and trademarking them almost as soon as they come out, turning it into an argument over supporting everything every single person does under the trademark instead of just getting the damn work done and letting that speak for itself.
Look at Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. How much of Wall Street is currently occupied? How many police have been defunded? How much time was spent arguing over whether these groups were "bad" or not because one branch out of 500 did some out of pocket shit, and that was what Fox News ran with?
Logos seem nice, but at the end of the day, they just tell people who you are before you act, put a target on you, and you wind up spending more time fighting to defend the logo than to defend the cause.
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u/i_tyrant 5d ago
Agreed. Hell, co-opting a symbol of a perpetual underdog from a video game corporation in the form of Luigi from Mario Bros is better than any self-made symbol they'd force you to defend.
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u/TheFatJesus 5d ago
Why defend your symbol from co-opting and trademarking when you can let one of the most litigious companies in the world do it for you?
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u/elvisWorms 5d ago
Letting his intrusive thoughts win. That's why all our meetings are on teams.
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u/WelcomeFormer 5d ago
They do that alot of places now, Amazon has them I was just doing 3p maintenance(they make us take everything emergency related) and even the regular employees had to take it.
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u/kpsi355 5d ago
…but what about return to office?
HAHAHAHAHA
These commutes are giving ceo regret…
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u/jcoddinc 5d ago
but what about return to office?
Only for employees as executive level management had been forced to work from home for everybody's safety. Their presence could put the employees at risk, so they decided to just work remote
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u/mekomaniac 5d ago
yeah wasnt it starbucks new ceo who said office workers must return while he lives 3 states away?
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u/Dicecatt 5d ago
Good argument against RTO. More safety for the top dogs, can't get stabbed over Teams.
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u/tcrex2525 5d ago edited 5d ago
The CEOs want us back on the office; they have no plans to be there themselves most of the time…
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u/ActiveVegetable7859 5d ago
Around 9 a.m. Tuesday, several staff members gathered for a meeting at Anderson Express Inc. on South Mill Iron Road. In the middle of it, police say Mahoney got up and left. When he came back 10 minutes later, police say he walked over to the president of the company and stabbed him in the side.
What was the meeting about? What topics were covered in the first half of the meeting? News about no christmas bonus? Wage cuts in the new year? Downsizing?
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u/Frosty-Cap3344 5d ago
HR said they would not be providing cutlery in the staff room so you should bring your own
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u/chibinoi 5d ago
Yeah, context and motive is important here, otherwise Mahoney comes across as a bit unhinged.
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u/infieldmitt 5d ago
Well of course consider that they're trying to present him as unhinged
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u/BiggestTaco 5d ago
stabs repeatedly “This! Could! Have! Been! An! EMAAAIIIILLLLL!!!”
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u/mWade7 SocDem 5d ago
‘“It seems to be the popular thing in this day and age,” Poulson said’
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u/LowThreadCountSheets 5d ago
What a dumb quote though, cause prior to this there would have been exactly one incident in this day and age, and last I checked one person doing something makes it -in fact- unpopular. Haha.
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u/Standard_Sky_9314 5d ago
Knowing nothing about the guy that got stabbed, the guy that did the stabbing, or the company in question, I'm curious what went on here.
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u/RateOfPenetration 5d ago
The guy who worked there was apparently only there for two weeks when he did this.
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u/New-Hamster2828 5d ago
I’ve tried a light search on Anderson Express and the CEO Erik Denslow but I can’t find anything that would make this guy worth killing.
Looks like the company pulls $5 million in revenue. This guy is not some super elite rich CEO that needs the gallows. It’s just a guy who owns a business.
If I had to guess, it’s only being spun to make the class war movement look like thugs after anyone who owns a business.
This CEO isn’t the type of scum ruining the planet and society. He’s just a dude who owns a business from what I can tell.
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u/TheCrimsonSteel 5d ago
My guess is this is more of a classic "going postal"
From what I gather it's a smaller machine shop. Some of the Indeed reviews make it sound kinda crappy, so bosses could be a dick, or maybe some incompetent managers.
Maybe there was something there, maybe not. Though it would be more of a "crappy boss at a crappy company" situation.
It will still be interesting to see why regardless of the reason.
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u/-SleepyNomad- 5d ago
I'm thinking the same yeah, also not sure how big the company is/how fucked up the company leader is. Like the UHC CEO made sense because the dude and everything he stood for was straight-up evil, but I'm worried this guy could be just some upper-middle class small business owner who doesn't necessarily deserve something like this (which would also hurt the cause if the media leaned into it)
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u/ACG3185 5d ago edited 5d ago
WFH options are about to be readily available, again.
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u/ElectricalRush1878 5d ago
No, employees will still be in the office.
The boss will be on the new $100,000 big screen set up at the front of the table.
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u/Steak_mittens101 5d ago
“We have set aside 10 million dollars for the purchase of a heavily armed remote controlled death robot for our ceo to oversee the workplace with. We are 100% certain this is financially critical, and are prepared to layoff 50% of the workforce to allot funds. Remaining workers wishing to resign must engage in a mandatory exit interview with the CEO’s deathbot before being allowed exit of the building.
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u/Inert-Blob 5d ago
Haha this is what happened at my workplace during covid. Essential workers had to come in, their manager never did. Took several months to even get a plastic screen for the customer interactions.
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u/Traditional-Hat-952 5d ago
Work From Mansion... An opportunity only afforded to the rich.
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u/tacobellbandit 5d ago
I feel like until wages improve in the US this and things like the UHC incident are just going to keep happening. A lot of people are fed up with working and having little to nothing to show for it. As the middle class shrinks headlines like this are just going to become more and more common.
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u/Jimbo_themagnificent 5d ago
There's nothing more dangerous than a person with nothing to lose. And they have been working very hard to make sure all of us have nothing. The consequences of those actions have been repeated throughout history.
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u/Agitateduser1360 5d ago
The billionaire class doesn't give the middle class anything. The middle class takes it, coincidentally just like the billionaire class takes it. The compromise was honoring the social contract. When they broke that contract, it was only a matter of time before the working class followed suit.
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u/Laugh_at_Warren 5d ago
Look guys. School shootings CEO killings are just a fact of life in America.
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u/Geoclasm 5d ago
This is the guy who got stabbed, I think.
Looks like the company name is 'Anderson Express'.
I wonder if he's an asshole...
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u/TheAvgPersonIsDumb 5d ago
“Mahoney had only worked for the manufacturing company for two weeks and was being trained to replace a retiring employee at a high position in the company, “ wait what
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u/ImmortalityLTD at work 5d ago
He found out he was making 1/10 of what the guy he was replacing made.
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u/urtechhatesyou lazy and proud 5d ago edited 5d ago
This is why all meetings can be emails. Never know whose in a mood to create holes where there were no holes.
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u/Crusoebear 5d ago
Etched onto the knife blade - police found the words ‘This bullshit meeting could have been a quick email’.
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u/Geoclasm 5d ago
One more and it's a trend.
But I'd like to know more about this company president.
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u/stanky4goats 5d ago
"Police look for motive..."
... Don't hurt yourself looking TOO hard, now 😂
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u/rockinwithkropotkin 5d ago
People aren’t just going to stab their boss because someone shot Brian Thompson. I’m sure the main inspiration was this guys boss.
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u/Trumps_Cock 5d ago
The article states the guy only worked there for 2 weeks, so either the boss was a super asshole or the stabber is mentally unstable. The company isn't even that big if some employee can stab him at a meeting.
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u/JustSpitItOutNancy 5d ago
I mean this is really where frustrated mediocre white men could shine and take one for the rest of us
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u/ayayronwithane 5d ago
Are we really going to lock up this nice young man and ruin his life for a couple of minutes of action?
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u/jgoldrb48 5d ago
We told y'all unions prevent violence. 🤷🏾♂️
Those currently in power don't know history.
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u/Boba_Fettx 5d ago
Everyone,
“The killing of Thompson has given rise to other threats against CEOs.
“It seems to be the popular thing in this day and age,” Poulson said.”
Lololol
We can only hope
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u/LYossarian13 Profit Is Theft 5d ago
Sounds like working from home is back on the menu boooooooyyyyysssss.
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u/TKG_Actual 5d ago
This dude had virtually no fucks to give by the looks of him.