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[–] [email protected] 184 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Somebody is going to get steamrolled by Icelandic labor laws. And it's not going to be the employee.

Edit: like this is seriously illegal in Iceland. Also, if you're going to be a corrupt and immoral business owner (evil really in this case), the number one thing you DON'T do is broadcast your nefarious intentions over a recordable medium.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Huge balls to write this in reproducible text in a civilised country with labour laws.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of times immigrants to Iceland in low paying jobs like this do not understand their rights. Wouldn't surprise me if this guy has gotten away with it before. Possibly more than once.

Iceland isn't perfect. If a business wants to get rid of someone, they'll find a way to do it. But it is illegal to prevent someone from joining a union, or issue threats like this. Companies over a certain size (50+ I think?) are actually required to have a union representative.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Yeah it happens all the time, but people usually give these messages verbally

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I can tell he's the kind of man who is very proud to be habitually reckless and cruel.

[–] where_am_i 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was absolutely sure this was some USA-as-usual post on lemmy. How insane do you have to be to write something like that in a country with working labor laws?

I wanna see the prosecutors face, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Even in the US this wouldn't fly. But the fact it's in any other developed nation other than the US, double yikes.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You love to see someone incriminate themselves while trying to suppress labor rights.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and I'm sure he will face, like, really bad consequences.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

not sure if this is sarcasm, but where OP is - iceland - probably has much better consequences for this kind of labor crime than the US...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

We can only hope

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tell me you are American without telling me you are American lmao

[–] explodicle 3 points 2 months ago

Where are you? Do your bosses have the sense to not write that?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for leaving this illegal threat in writing. I suggest you look for a new job.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I wish this were how the world worked. But you can't legalism your way through a union drive. At the end of the day, you need your coworkers to have your back.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But iceland actually enforces labor laws right? So the unions gonna win the case right?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would expect that the union lawyer won’t mind that evidence is served on a silver platter like this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i swear, owner dude is shooting his own leg big time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I heard about a guy who did that with a .22, it was way worse than you'd expect. Think he got some compartment problem or something where the wound channel would clog in a bad way and he'd have to massage/push it out himself, at home, in a bathtub.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

people think 'oh it's only a .22' lol. point blank, that bullet's got places to go and bones to crack on the way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's not exactly an air rifle.

The bullet is about that size, but the difference is that it's going through.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I was told that a .22 can be worse than just getting shot with a high caliber because the .22 isn't likely to make it through bone, so it just ricochets around inside you for a bit instead of passing right through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what's a .22? I don't speak American

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm Norwegian. I spent about a year shooting .22s at paper. Everyone calls it a .22 as far as I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I call it a weapon. They're all the same to me. Not that there's anything wrong with shooting as a hobby, but they're all dangerous no matter which type of gun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish you'd just stop it after the "I don't speak American" nonsense. You sound like the type who'd think a scope makes the bullet go farther.

Besides, you're repeating a point that was obvious from my retelling of the. 22 through the leg story.

Do you need me to remind you that cars go fast and cats say meow?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

because you said "it was way worse than you'd expect" as if one would expect a bullet in their leg to not be a big deal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I mean it didn't zip right through and leave a small wound that healed easily. It messed shit up and got complicated.

.22 has a weird reputation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well obviously it didn't leave a small wound. You're not shooting with grapes, you're firing heavy pointy metal cylinders at 3000 km/h. No surprise that it will mess shit up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also they're not very heavy.

Hence their reputation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

bullets with a reputation of not being dangerous?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

More or less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s small ammunition for small guns.

example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

thanks! but, you call that small??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

We do, yes.

.50 on the left, .22 LR on the right.

They flank cartridges that are in the "big game hunting/ standard soldier's rifle" range.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why you'd consider it large either, it fits trivially in the palm of your hand.

Are you maybe imagining that the whole cartridge would be fired? because it's only the very end bit that actually gets shot, the rest of it is just to hold gunpowder and the bullet in place inside the gun.
The actual bullet itself is about the size of a pea, i think.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That guy really puts the Dic in Icelandic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol but tbf the icelandic people ive met are pretty chill actually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah this is the guy that does it. Otherwise they would just be icelaners

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

This reeks of the villain monologuing their plan while the hero is helplessly tied to the train tracks. But also Facebook living it for posterity lmao

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would just reply with "Indeed.com"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

My god, their planet is exactly like ours but they have labour laws! Quick Daniel, dial the gate! sprays P90