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Walmart Employees Throwing iPads

  • 09-11-2012 11:26am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,212 ✭✭✭✭


    Currently trending on youtube



    Video Description:
    Employees at a Pikeville, KY Walmart filmed themselves purposefully damaging iPads.


    Can anyone say "they tuk my jurb!" :pac:


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭él statutorio


    Well that's them fired.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    Idiots


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Oh, the humanity


  • Registered Users Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Mocha Joe


    They don't look like they'll have much luck getting a job somewhere else.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Shouldn't the title be "Ex-Walmart Employees Throwing Ipads"?

    Bunch of morons.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    How do we know that these packages contain IPads.

    For all we know thy could be tossing books. :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    people really are stupid aren't they


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    How do we know that these packages contain IPads.

    For all we know thy could be tossing books. :p

    NWO books probably! It's the Illuminati at work in a false-flag iPad throwing spree.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    people really are stupid aren't they
    Those people, certainly.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 735 ✭✭✭joydivision


    All them poor sweat shop worker made work 57 hour days and for what? These pampered westerners to smash them . Wal mart should get that foxconn company in to run things .
    To be honest fair play to them ,nothing like a bit of distruction at the expense of the boss from time to time.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭HeyThereDeliah


    what a bunch of tools, hope they get fired.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    'merica


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Let's record ourselves throwing expensive shìt around in our jobs and show our faces!

    I bet they're so inbred they're their own grandchildren.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Throw one my way.

    Wouldn't pay for one but if they're throwing them around sure why not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    This has to be damaging to Walmart.. If someone bought an iPad in Walmart, broke it (accidentally), they could go back to the store, say it was a birthday present, they just opened it yesterday, and it was like that when they bought it..

    One Reddit user claims the guys in this video have already been dealt with by Walmart officials. “This was sent to me by an employee of this store. They’re fired and prosecuted as well,” the individual wrote.
    With Black Friday just around the corner, the last thing the company wants is for people to find a reason to avoid the retailer this holiday season. After all, iPads and all sorts of electronic devices are sure to be popular gifts among family and friends.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    After watching that video I've come to the conclusion that these are clearly intelligent fellas who were making an ironic attack on excessive materialism, consumer capitalist culture as well as a light hearted jibe at multinational corporations such as Walmart. Kudos to them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭risteardb


    who ever had the bright idea of putting it onto da net...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    summerskin wrote: »
    NWO books probably! It's the Illuminati at work in a false-flag iPad throwing spree.

    This is bullsh!t. The ipads (if indeed that's what's even in these boxes) have being bumped and rocked and tossed about in planes/ships/trucks all their way from China to Redneckville.

    The iPads are padded.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Damn Anroid fanboys :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    How do we know that these packages contain IPads.

    For all we know thy could be tossing books. :p

    I like tossing books, play boy, amature house wife's etc, but only for the motoring articles.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill



    That there mother ****er's broke.

    And so will you be until you find another job. Idiot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    Just two good old boys, never meanin' no harm...
    Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law
    Since the day they was born.
    Straightenin' the curves, flattenin' the hills...
    Someday the mountain might get 'em but the law never will.
    Makin' their way, the only way they know how...
    That's just a little bit more than the law will allow.
    Just two good ol' boys, wouldn't change if they could,
    Fightin' the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    This is bullsh!t. The ipads (if indeed that's what's even in these boxes) have being bumped and rocked and tossed about in planes/ships/trucks all their way from China to Redneckville.

    The iPads are padded.


    sense of humour failure no.1


  • Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭.Henry Sellers.


    I flinched when he smashed the first one off the ground,wonder if JohnBoy wil get a job again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    and they shot the video with the camera turned sideways !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Give 'em a break. I often have a toss at work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Conway635


    Many years ago in the UK, at a loose end in December between stints in an offshore job, I took a temporary position in an Index catalog store (don't know if they are still going - they regarded themsleves as an upmarket version of Argos).

    I worked in the warehousy bit - along with a team of others, picking the stuff off the shelves as the customers purchased, and putting them through to the front shop on a little conveyor belt.

    The full-timers hated the part-time Christmas staff, as we didn't share the same utter comptempt for the public/customers that they did.

    Packages containing electronic goods were regularly tossed down to the floor from the top shelf rather than carried down, and small electronic packages were regularly used as the "football" in end of shift football games in the warehouse.

    When I wouldn't take part in these practices, I was ostracised by the full-time staff, including my line manager.

    Little or no CCTV in those days (was Christmas of 1989).

    I have done many and varied jobs in my life, and normally enjoyed myself whether serving petrol, mixing chemicals, or advising wealthy IT clients, all great jobs if done with a positive outlook.

    But that was one month which I look back at and shudder at the horrible atmosphere, bullying, and "don't care" attitude.

    I'm sure this video is only the tip of the lceberg.

    C635


  • Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Ecarg


    idiots... those packages probably don't even contain i-pads...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    How do people see it as a good idea to film themselves doing this ****? Mind boggling.

    Also if you buy one of those broken iPads, you're just gonna get a refund.

    Strange people. Logic out the door.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    smash wrote: »
    Damn Anroid fanboys :pac:

    Fandroids.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 KiraWalmart


    The associates involved no longer work for Walmart. Since this unfortunate incident, we haven’t received any returns of this merchandise. We stand behind our merchandise and associates and assure our customers that they can, too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    The associates involved no longer work for Walmart. Since this unfortunate incident, we haven’t received any returns of this merchandise. We stand behind our merchandise and associates and assure our customers that they can, too.

    Thanks, now we can all continue to shop there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    I wonder if Walmart actually pays people to scour the internet looking for bad press and getting their "word" out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭.Henry Sellers.


    The associates involved no longer work for Walmart. Since this unfortunate incident, we haven’t received any returns of this merchandise. We stand behind our merchandise and associates and assure our customers that they can, too.

    Can I have a free Ipad Kira?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 581 ✭✭✭phoenix999


    Three obese redknecks. Probably the most exercise they got all day.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Those guys could either be dumb as horse **** messers or anti-capitalists types opposed to big business. I'd guess the former.


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