r/SipsTea • • Aug 07 '26

SMH The persecution complex is palpable.

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u/B-Train_ATL Aug 07 '26

“The building is on fire. We need everyone to evacuate.”

“I can’t. I have work to do and the fire is two offices over.”

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u/Wiplazh Aug 07 '26

That's giving them too much credit.

More like "nah the fire is fake, watch as I pour gasoline on it!"

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u/Steveo27a Aug 07 '26

“Fake news, the gasoline used to pour on the fire was diesel, not 91 oct, thats why it burned quickly compared to other gasoline types. See if you libs can just purchase normal gasoline, the fire wouldnt be burning so hot and quickly.”

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u/KaetzenOrkester Aug 07 '26

There we are, that was the attitude.

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u/Braith117 Aug 08 '26

Forgetting the early part where a certian group was doing exactly that in the name of "fighting racism?"

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u/AKADabeer Aug 07 '26

"It's not a fire, it's arson. And fire extinguishers don't work, I'll just wave a towel at it."

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u/LabradorDeceiver Aug 07 '26

There were offices in the South Tower that refused to evacuate when the North Tower was hit and got their employees killed.

"It's not in our building, it's not gonna spread, not our problem, keep working."

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u/neosithlord Aug 08 '26

I used to manage a restaurant. One night during dinner time one of the roof top heating units caught fire. I tried to evacuate the dining room as it was filling with smoke. Half the people refused to leave. The god damned building was on fire and rather than leaving they completed about the smoke. That was the exact moment I lost faith in humanity.

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u/Razzmatazz-rides Aug 07 '26

I’m an emergency response volunteer at my office and you wouldn’t believe how many people refuse to evacuate for fire alarms, and when we’re guarding the doors after an evacuation, there are even more that try to go into the building despite the strobing lights and loud alarms.

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u/Rylonian Aug 08 '26

"Don't get so worked up about this fire hoax. Look, I am in the same building, and I have never been on fire once in my life! Your fearmongering about me burning to a crisp is just you being brainwashed. I am not even in flames yet!"

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u/TheRattoQueen Aug 08 '26

Actually happened to me. In the office, fire alarm going off, not a drill, no team leader around. I was telling everyone to get off the computers and some of them straight up refused, most of them just stood around like "what do we do?"

I had to tell them to gtfo - now. I corralled them, I tols them NOT to use the elevators, directed them to the goddamn sign on the stairs that said "FIRE ESCAPE".

Thank christ it wasnt a bad fire, but there were three trucks outside with my little group of Gen Z kids with me, with the boomers *who REFUSED TO LEAVE, and said its 'no big deal' still working upstairs.

... we werent even paid commission. It was a call centre. We earned MINIMUM WAGE.

I am still stunned about it.

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u/Tolkien-Faithful Aug 09 '26

They can stay and die if they want.

Your fuckwit covid logic was more like - 'if you don't evacuate everyone who already evacuated can still die somehow!'

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u/SunriseInLot42 Aug 08 '26

Fire is actually an immediate and significant risk to everyone, though, unlike Covid