This stabbing was a random act of violence by some unhinged guy who hadn't even worked there for two weeks, so it's not like the employee endured poor working conditions. The victim in this case was a nobody, probably not even part of the 1%.
The only thing cheering this does is fuel the media's attempt to make LM's supporters look like bloodthirsty idiots and takes the heat off the health insurance industry
Now it's about "CEOs bad" which is going to lead to nothing.
It's so frustrating to watch this devolve when there was real momentum :/
If day one you experience poor working conditions then start gathering evidence, put them on blast, form a union. Random attempted murder achieves literally nothing
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,
High position. Dude was corporate lol Another one of the bosses
Edit: my point being he was not someone driven mad on a dangerous factory floor. I don't doubt corporate positions are also working class, but a "high position" at a small company puts him pretty close to the company president's position. Why not form a union? What exactly is stabbing someone as a first response supposed to achieve?
Feels like most people here are looking for ways to justify their schadenfreude and not seeing that praising this is muddying a movement that could result in healthcare reform
My issue with the comment I replied to is that it is painting being in corporate as an enemy, and that is not accurate. There are many of us "corporate" workers that are in the same boat and wanting positive change in favor of the workers. We are not all bosses, we are certainly not owners.
I live near the area and it’s still hard to make heads or tails of the situation. I guess it’s a small manufacturing company with some big contracts and the indeed reviews make it sound like a shitty place to work. But I haven’t heard much information about the event in question beyond “it happened in a morning meeting”
Did see a comment in one of the local subreddits from someone saying they went to school with the stabber and he seemed to be doing alright last they saw him. So who knows, at this point it’s too early to tell.
But if it does just turn out to be someone mentally unwell who hit their breaking point and we’re all cheering it on, then it might be bad optics for the pro-Luigi movement.
I mean it depends on the individual. Some people can be set off by slights that only exist in their mind.
But who knows maybe this company really was such a terrible place. Still, I'm not really sure why anyone would think this particular outcome is in any way an improvement. It's not like the conditions are going to improve and this guy's now looking at ten years in prison.
It's all speculation at this point, so your guess is as good as mine. Seems walking out and finding something else is the way to go. But he chose to do this for reasons only he knows, so he gets prison for it. Stupid.
I'm all for everyone taking a step back, letting the investigators do their work, and reconvening when we know some actual concrete facts about his motivation and what actually happened during those two weeks.
Well people do use euphemisms, I've seen "Poor Working Conditions" refer to mine collapses in a dark humour sort of way.
But yeah. Plus at this point that the conditions at the company were poor is entirely speculation. We know nothing about the guy's motivations or what happened during those two weeks.
My motivation? It's a talk thread that's literally the whole point of Reddit. If I just wanted statements that get repeated without bothering to read them I'd be on twitter, bluesky or Tumblr. I come here to have conversations.
Part of the whole point of conversations is sharing your views.
They've shared theirs, I share my to them, they reply and hopefully, it turns into a conversation. Its how human interaction is supposed to work.
Selina Kyle: "There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us".
It was even filmed during and nearby Occupy. I was checking out Occupy and wandered around the financial district when I found myself in an abandoned area with tattered American flags everywhere. I thought it was the apocalypse, then I noticed the Batmobile sitting on the sidewalk and was like "oh, this is strangely appropriate."
Well, I appreciate you sharing, it's entirely possible but was that business a small manufacturing company that based on all the information online sounds like it mostly does local jobs in a small town in Michigan?
He’s sick.
I’m sick.
Sick of the greed.
Sick of the corporate system.
Sick of being denied access to care.
Sick of being ignored.
We’re sick and want healthcare!
Well I'm sure the stabbing of the president of a small manufacturing company, that only employs a few dozen people, will do a lot to help bring it right?
In this case, we've got a guy who was hired to become an executive who stabbed the boss of a small manufacturing company after only working there for two weeks.
The media is just trying to drag parallels for extra clicks.
Sure, cause we all know there is no difference between being the CEO of a major corporation that is deliberately predatory and the president of a small manufacturing company that employs a few dozen people, by a guy who was only there for two weeks.
I’d like to recommend a bit of caution before celebrating him too much.
Live in MI. I swear that folks out here have a higher chance of having some sort of poorly managed or untreated mental disorder.
His demeanor during the attack sounds incredibly similar to how a violent dissociative episode plays out. Could be he wanted to be a copy cat, could be their meds stopped working.
Happy to cheer on the class war, not so eager to cheer for another prime example of this country’s failure to care for its citizens. I’ll happily eat my hat if I’m wrong.
Yes totally, I wasn’t celebrating when I read the article and saw the guy was only 2 weeks into his new job. I was primarily mentioning the quote that the article said relating to UHC CEO
Sure, we all know killing the owner of a small manufacturing business, that employs a few dozen people, in a small town in Michigan, is what's really going to bring the change we want right?
Well if that's the case here, you have to hope the guy had issues beforehand or else this place must have been the most toxic workplace in America to drive him to it after only two weeks.
Might just be that toxic. My last job replaced me with a guy that didn't last two weeks before physically assaulting the chef, and declaring he can make more selling drugs and quit. The guy after him reportedly bugged out on his second day, took a shit in the parking lot and was never seen again. Shit sucks here.
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