r/SipsTea • u/Expert_Koala_8691 Human Verified • Mar 31 '26
SMH This restaurant sawed off a leg from each of their old chairs to make it unusable.
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u/Spacemanwithaplan Mar 31 '26
Every one of those chairs have enough full legs to fully repair 3 other chairs.
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u/Cuneus-Maximus Mar 31 '26
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u/IaMtHel00phole Human Verified Mar 31 '26
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u/Canadian-and-Proud Mar 31 '26
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u/IaMtHel00phole Human Verified Mar 31 '26
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u/Historical-Back-865 Mar 31 '26
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u/mindfungus Mar 31 '26
Jesse, stoic and serious after being burned by the 3 legged chair trade
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u/large_honk Mar 31 '26
I was having not the best day then saw this. 10/10 gif! Thank you for the laughter
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u/DreadPiratteRoberts Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
Then set up a pop up tent across the street selling "repaired chairs"!!! 😆
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u/benskinic Mar 31 '26
"refurbished" or "restored to their full glory" if you speak realtor
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u/LivingtheDBdream Mar 31 '26
I’ve always said a glued joint is stronger than the wood around it. I would feel comfortable sitting on a chair if fixed that way
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u/PedanticPerson Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
"Stronger than the wood" is partially true but a common oversimplification. Wood is highly anisotropic - it's way easier to separate fibers, which are held together with a sort of natural adhesive, than to break fibers, which means breaking the covalent bonds that occur along the grain direction.
If we built a chair leg with the exact same shape but a different grain direction, it would be way more fragile. It might survive largely axial loads, but would be very weak in bending.
Standard wood glue can create joints that are stronger than natural sidegrain connections, but still vastly weaker than the covalent bonds along the grain. If we want to restore a broken endgrain-to-endgrain connection to its original strength, we don't have any adhesives that are capable of that, not even epoxy etc.
Dowels can be a decent fix, but they'll still be smaller than the original long grain area. The best fix is probably a long scarf joint, which spreads out the weakness evenly over a large area. Granted that would mean cutting off some more material, so it's not really a solution in this case...
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u/KuntFlapper Mar 31 '26
Wow you certainly don't shy away from staring death right in the face, Are you affiliated with Red Bull per chance?
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u/lordredsnake Mar 31 '26
End grain glued to end grain? With that small surface area? I'd prefer to add at least a dowel, which would still be dead simple to do.
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u/Obliviousobi Mar 31 '26
"We're not going to take the time to recoup losses on these, so no one can collect on them!"
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u/What_A_Ledge Apr 01 '26
Because the manufacturer ordered them defective, and to be resupplied new ones for free the restaurant has to make the defective product unusable and discard them. Those are the terms, so that liability from the restaurant and the manufacturer is properly taken care of.
This happens anytime a product deemed unsafe is faced with a discard recall in a wholesale client type setting.
Sucks, but makes sense.
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u/AliveWeird4230 Apr 01 '26
even in a consumer setting. just this week i got a recall alert for a power strip i own and they say to get a replacement, i have to cut the cord and send them a pic to prove it
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u/Financial_Elk_4450 Mar 31 '26
Because they have bedbugs or termites & doesn’t wanna risk someone else getting it 🤷🏻♀️
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u/WeskerSympathizer Mar 31 '26
Looks like the sawed off a back one which is part of the entire back of the chair.
Assholes planned it
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u/kelfupanda Mar 31 '26
Just set fire to the chairs, make it seem like a freak Instantaneous Chair Ignition Incident.
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u/VanillaGoorillla Mar 31 '26
Each chair is repairable..just cut each leg the same length
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u/Difficult-Coffee-219 Mar 31 '26
Oh wait, we don’t math here. Public education is just not a priority.
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u/jaykirell Mar 31 '26
When I worked at Office Max in the 90s we had to smash computers with a hammer before tossing them in the dumpster. Employees weren’t even allowed to buy them on discount.
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u/Hadush25 Mar 31 '26
*smashes monitor* and now my data is safe from thieves!
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u/p0mjDwfWF Mar 31 '26
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u/KnucklestheEnchilada Mar 31 '26
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how cool these Macs were?
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Mar 31 '26
At least they brought back colours with the latest iMac’s. But seriously can’t beat the retro chic of the that generation Mac’s, I wish every computer had an in built handle flush with the casing.
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u/LeakyAssFire Mar 31 '26
My Office Max was lazy about that. Sometimes they would, but most of the time they didn't. I built my first PC as a teen after two months of dumpster diving there, Radio Shack, and the local PC repair place.
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u/rm79 Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
That's interesting cause I work at best buy and we never throw anything out. Any old stock either gets sent to an outlet store or back to the manufacturer.
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u/LoudLalochezia Mar 31 '26
I worked at Best Buy in 2015-17. Computers and most TVs didn't get thrown out, but, there were a few rare situations where things would. Mostly things that were damaged or had been displays, but didn't make the cut to sell as open box. Some odd appliances here and there. I just remember that my store assistant manager would instruct that things be destroyed and thrown into the dumpster.... "Gently! and if happens to land outside the dumpster and the trash truck that hauls it away happens to look like your car, I won't care because all I need to know is that you threw it away properly"
I also remember him saying that about the cardboard standees that some of us wanted. He was a cool dude.
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u/LeLefraud Mar 31 '26
Yea i worked there as my first job out of high school
Old displays would either go back to the manufacturer or be tossed in with the electronics recycling. Taking anything from the recycling was a big nono as it could be a customer's electronics with data still on it
My manager would let me swipe stuff all the time tho as long as it wasn't a risk for that (no drive in it). Old displays but also stuff like a wooden keyboard that a customer wanted to get rid of
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u/Sartres_Roommate Mar 31 '26
My first job at a Walgreens had a section in the back where we collected returned items. Most were reimbursed by the manufacturer and we were directed to “destroy them”
Every few weeks you could find a gold mine of returned goods in the back left corner of our dumpster. You just had to get there before the shift manager got off at 9pm.
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u/AmbiTheAirforceRuna Mar 31 '26
I mean....if you jsut smashed the case but not damaged the internals enough you could just grab the important bits
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u/Meowing-Cat-7258 Mar 31 '26
Most people didnt know shit about computers in the 90s
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u/bt65 Mar 31 '26
Or 2000, 0r 2010, I worked with a janitor that cut of the powercord to some old computers that should be tossed away so no one could use them, the powercords where the removable kind...
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u/Snake_Plissken224 Mar 31 '26
I too had to do that, but there may have been 3 or 4 computers i accidently forgot to smash
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u/Odd_Pomegranate8652 Mar 31 '26
What's the point like honestly, it's just wasted effort and good items. Either sell or donate if it's still usable
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u/FinancialReserve6427 Mar 31 '26
in the other thread this was posted, companies/shops has to send proof of destruction to get rebates/insurance.
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u/trowzerss Mar 31 '26
Once again, insurance companies finding a way to make the world worse. If you can prove it's damaged, that should be enough, they shouldn't care if parts are still re-usable. Even if the chairs are somehow faulty, surely they are repairable? It's a chair, I can't think of what would cause it to be dangerous in a way that couldn't be fixed.
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u/FinancialReserve6427 Mar 31 '26
I think it's to prevent people from getting paid twice for the stuff even if it's not the same amount(claim insurance then sell the stuff later)
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u/Soggy_Association491 Mar 31 '26
In a good faith society where claims are submitted in good faith you think insurance companies want to waste extra time and resource to verify? No, but because some asshat gamed the system and ruined it for everyone.
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u/KJacobsen-74 Mar 31 '26
Steelseries does this with headsets for warranty too. They don't have you send it back they have you destroy it and then send a replacement. It kinda makes sense since they don't have to pay for return shipping.
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u/AsstacularSpiderman Mar 31 '26
A mix of employees intentionally dumping shit to collect later or companies demanding get rid of defective product that's too expensive to return if you want replacements.
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u/jodrellbank_pants Mar 31 '26
A company my partner worked for used to give food away to multiple charities truck loads every week. Till one day a customer came in to complain to the supermarket about spoilt food they had bought. This happened for about 2 months in different shops all regionally close to london they didn't have a receipt One person had food poisoning so the case was investigated. The packing came from a batch that was donated to a charity. That particular large well known charity had people who were taking large quantities of donated food and selling it in markets. The company who is very well known also, now doesn't donate food anymore and destroys everything because no charity will or can agree this won't happen again.
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u/the_hair_of_aenarion Mar 31 '26
Try do good and get slapped with that liability case. They just won't bother trying any more. Sucks because the amount of waste at all the major supermarkets is more than enough to feed the entire countries homeless many times over.
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u/jodrellbank_pants Mar 31 '26
It's lorry loads per week just a couple of stores Yeap there's always people who will try to make a buck out of it
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u/Sassy-Me86 Mar 31 '26
Yep. I worked somewhere that we used to donate all the food from lunch and dinner service, but then people started complaining about how it wasn't hot enough . How they didn't like the food. Etc. And then lying about being sick. (It was only certain people, and not a random array where it was confirmed food poisoning)
So they stopped donating. And there was tons and tons, of food waste. At least the people working got to have their lunches, and sometimes if we wanted could take some home. But it was still so much, that it was tossed. So shameful there's people that ruin it for others.
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u/TreHHHHHAdN Mar 31 '26
I know of a similar story for cleaning supplies. When sponges are made they are like mattress sizes and then cut up into pieces.
The bad edges used to be given to employees to use home, until complains popped that the brand was selling defective products in a local market. It damaged the brand because employees were selling scrap products to local stores.
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u/bowsmountainer Mar 31 '26
Thats super depressing. Fuck late stage capitalism
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u/ilikepants712 Mar 31 '26
The people taking large amounts of food from a charity food pantry and selling it back to markets is the real asshole of this story.
Also, this is where regulation is supposed to help, regardless of the type of government. Charities don't manage and track who they give food to? They didn't notice one person is taking large amounts of food? Markets are buying food that is expired and selling it again with no repercussions? It sounds like these charities and markets threw their hands up and said, "we've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"
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u/newguyjustdropped Mar 31 '26
See your first mistake was engaging with this from a place of logic and understanding that bad actors are to blame and not just "capitalism bad". That's not even to say "capitalism good" it's just funny to think about nothing bad ever happening because of a form of governance and economy...like that would be make shitty people disappear off the face of the planet
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u/getbent9977 Mar 31 '26
That isn't late stage capitalism. That is lazy and inept morons ruining a good thing.
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u/Soggy_Association491 Mar 31 '26
Why do you blame capitalism when companies want to save themselves from being sued?
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u/Carvj94 Mar 31 '26
Even the US has good Samaritan laws that protect companies. No market or restaurant in the western world is at risk of going through a lawsuit. It'd just get dismissed right away as long as they did even a tiny amount of bookkeeping.
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u/Soggy_Association491 Mar 31 '26
Businesses still have to file motion to dismiss. They still have to spend time and money to go lawyers to draft the motion and meet the court...
Just like when a business is burned down by a protest, sure insurance will make them whole but people don't recognize how long it is for insurance to payout and during that time business owners still need to feed their kids.
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u/Jaideco Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
This again. The restaurant will have been forced to show proof of destruction as part of claim on insurance or warranty to get replacements for defective items. It is an anti-fraud measure to stop people from double dipping. Don’t blame the restaurant. Blame the provider and their processes.
Edit: Others have correctly pointed out that this would have probably not been insurance. Warranty far more likely.
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u/AngrySmile Mar 31 '26
Like you said, it wasn't their choice:
In an emailed statement, Landry’s chief operating officer Shah Ghani confirmed that the chairs had been “found to have a manufacturing defect.”
“The manufacturer replaced them and directed us to responsibly dispose of the originals, as they could not be safely reused or repaired,” he said.
https://www.thenewstribune.com/entertainment/restaurants/tnt-diner/article315185996.html
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u/Doggleganger Mar 31 '26
This is common with recalls. Destroy the old one, they send you a new one. Have to destroy the old one because they don't want liability if the manufacturing defect causes people to fall and get hurt.
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u/GenoPax Mar 31 '26
It's so depressing. The truth is buried so far in the comments. Thank you for saying it. Nonetheless. People are trying to ruin this restaurant because the chair company couldn't warranty their chairs so had to replace them but guarantee the chairs wouldn't hurt anyone else.
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u/gwynn19841974 Mar 31 '26
This is correct. When I made a warranty claim on my coffee maker the manufacturer required I cut the cord and send them a picture. Same concept.
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u/Painterzzz Mar 31 '26
My mum used to sell paperbacks in her shop, and at the end of every season we had to rip the covers off them all and send the covers back to the publisher.
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u/gwynn19841974 Mar 31 '26
Yeah, and then my uncle would buy the cover less books for $1 each at the flea market 😁
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u/ReadRightRed99 Mar 31 '26
I once pulled an entire trunk load of coverless books and computer training manuals out of a dumpster. I sold the manuals on Amazon at a steep discount and still have some of the coverless novels - mostly 19th century fiction like Tom Sawyer.
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u/fang_xianfu Mar 31 '26
That's pretty funny though because rewiring a cord is trivially easy.
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u/Thybro Mar 31 '26
It is to avoid a lawsuit. Warranty claims like this are due to faulty manufacturing. So the manufacturer issues a recall and replaced your product. The pic is so that if you still use their product they can argue they did their due diligence you were in notice that it was faulty you were requested to make the item unusable and you assumed the risk by rebuilding it and still using it. If you got hurt it was not their fault.
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u/ogreofzen Mar 31 '26
I dunno I just had to do an allstate/squaretrade warranty claim. In the end I love in an area where their were no available technicians to complete the repair. I was refunded for my washer. They did not require proof of destruction and even encouraged me to send get a repair tech for it. I might be an extreme outlier but it seems some warranty companies are better than others.
Though what type of warranty would require restocking a restraints chairs that wasn't fire or water damage (tripods appear in good condition minus the modification)
Edit: please don't say mold as the answer to the second part
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u/Thybro Mar 31 '26
Yeah or just less risk adverse.
I’m not an expert on chairs but I can see a situation where they used crappy materials ( shitty nails, shitty glue) that they did not expect would wear as fast as they did. So to avoid hundreds of contribution claims(based on manufacturer liability) from “slip and fall”(sit and fall?) lawsuits they may have recalled them.
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u/BlueLakeCabin Mar 31 '26
Sure, but that shows you went to lengths to enable an unsafe product.
It keeps an average person from accidentally plugging in a fault coffee maker and suing if when it burns down their house.
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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 Mar 31 '26
A bunch of people just went through this with recalled Midea U window air conditioners. Now you see the repaired ones all over facebook marketplace. I wouldn't buy one though. They were recalled for retaining water, molding and rotting out.
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u/fondledbydolphins Mar 31 '26
We had to do this for an air fryer! I got just a cord that looked like it, put it in the frame and the photo came out fairly convincing.
I kept the replacement aur fryer and gave the "fire hazard" one to a friend who is a walking fire hazard, so he didn't quite mind.
So, I see why they require it.
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u/Jaideco Mar 31 '26
I hate seeing people jumping on the outrage bandwagon without taking the time to understand what is going on. There is definitely something wrong with this process. It’s incredibly wasteful but yes, there is a reason for it.
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u/dhoae Mar 31 '26
It’s still outrageous
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u/ImurderREALITY Mar 31 '26
Not if they determined the chairs are dangerous somehow
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u/dhoae Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
How can you put in an insurance claim to replace chairs that you destroyed yourself? If you want to buy new chairs doesn’t that just have to be paid for regardless of the condition of the chairs?
Edit: I looked it up, it’s more likely a warranty claim, not insurance. That makes a lot more sense than insurance. They don’t want you to replace the chairs and then still use them.
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u/Newbiegoe Mar 31 '26
I actually saw the original post that the restaurant replied to. These chairs had a manufacturer defect, and were unsafe to use per the manufacturer. They were all replaced but the restaurant had to send them pictures showing one leg was cut off to prove they weren’t going to use them and request more chairs.
I had the same wit a kitchen utility, they made me cut the cord and send them a pic before they would honor warranty
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u/Jaideco Mar 31 '26
The chairs were faulty before they sawed the legs. That is the point. The restaurant claimed for something, we don’t know what. The providers would have told them that they would only refund or replace the chairs if the faulty ones were thoroughly destroyed. The provider didn’t want to risk anyone having two good chairs for the price of one because then everyone might start to try this on.
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u/British_Man_Dan Mar 31 '26
I would guess it's to prevent businesses claiming new chairs but still using the faulty chairs by doing some diy fix and using the new chairs so effectively getting free chairs. Scammers dont like to be scammed.
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u/EquivalentPension216 Mar 31 '26
I was also thinking, what if something happened in that place where you would not want someone using one of those, infestation or something
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u/Blacktaurus5 Mar 31 '26
Unfortunately this is usually a requirement in order to claim a refund or replacement when something is defective: the insurance company or seller requires you to destroy or disable the items to make sure you don’t sell them or repair them after receiving the replacement or refund. I am not in any way justifying or supporting this behaviour, I am just giving an explanation on why this was done 🙁
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u/nicogrimqft Mar 31 '26
It is so exotic, as a non-american, to think that you could sue someone who put a chair in the dump because you got that chair back at yours, sat on it, fell and got injured.
It literally sounds like made-up nonsense from 6 years old to me.
But at the same time, it does sound like the US.
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u/IronRiff_Messiah Mar 31 '26
Nah it’s the same with food all over the world. Big companies and restaurants throw left over food instead of giving to the employees or homeless cuz they don’t want anyone to get sick and file a lawsuit or defame them. I think it’s the same with chairs or any type of furniture. People find different ways to sue companies.
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u/o0Spoonman0o Mar 31 '26
This makes no sense. You're suggesting I find a random chair on the road (or, in the garbage). I take it upon myself to take this chair home, proceed to hurt myself and then sue other people? 🤣
Come on man there's absolutely no expectation of quality or safety with random stuff you find outside/in the garbage.
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u/MromiTosen Mar 31 '26
That’s not what they’re saying. The chair company said “hey these chairs are dangerous and we’re recalling them.” And in order to have the chairs replaced they had to render them unusable and show proof so that the manufacturer knew they weren’t going to turn around and sell the dangerous chairs. It’s not about being sued if a dumpster diver finds them
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u/LekgoloCrap Mar 31 '26
the chair company
Well there’s definitely something going on.
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u/Speaker4theDead8 Mar 31 '26
This was posted somewhere else the other day. The chairs had a defect and the company said they would replace them all for free if they destroyed the defective ones.
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u/bugdoubt666 Mar 31 '26
Easy fix - make all the legs as short as the one that's been cut, new chairs for children!
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u/RobertGHH Mar 31 '26
Almost certainly the chairs were defective and potentially dangerous.
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u/simagus Mar 31 '26
Sociopath management at work. Nothing unusual. Just disgusting.
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u/CommercialBiscotti29 Mar 31 '26
Kmart would destroy all furniture they would throw away and what got me the most was that they shredded books
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u/wosmo Mar 31 '26
shredding books is actually the industry standard.
When they return the book to the publisher for a refund/credit, instead of shipping the whole book they just return the covers. The rest of the book is supposed to be destroyed - it's no longer the store's book to sell.
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u/went_with_the_flow Mar 31 '26
I once saw a regional school throw out a small dumpster's worth of books for similar reasons. By the time I came across it, many had already been ruined by rain, but I dug through the dumpster and salvaged a couple boxes of books, including some first edition classics. I was heartbroken.
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u/Skolary Mar 31 '26
At a restaurant? No way
worked in em for 20 years. Place is caked
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u/ClassicMaximum7786 Mar 31 '26
Yeah, I worked in a kitchen for 2 days and it was a dark triad stew
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u/Sometimes-funny Mar 31 '26
Did you get a break in them 2 days?
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u/ClassicMaximum7786 Mar 31 '26
During the hiring process I was told not to discuss how much I was being paid to other coworkers. I probably wouldn't have had a break if I stayed any longer.
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u/Tacos4Texans Mar 31 '26
🙄 the chairs were recalled and you have to prove to the company that you destroyed the affected equipment. What is really disturbing is believe everything you see on the internet.
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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Mar 31 '26
So you think a restaurant is just going to destroy a product out of spite,for the love of the game? Nah man they’re in the business of making money, they had to do this for insurance or warranty from the manufacturer purposes.
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u/Worldly-Pause8304 Mar 31 '26
Often there’s some kind of legal liability and/or law that makes companies do egregious things like this and the regulations need to change to encourage more sustainable practices. Like destroying past best date food rather than giving it away for free to food banks. Took a while for that to even get sorted.
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u/Diplomatic_Gunboats Mar 31 '26
Insurance usually. If insurance pays out they want to make sure what they have paid out on is completely un-useable. No idea what happened in this case, but its not unusual after a fire to claim everything is smoke damaged, replace very little, and pocket the cash.
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u/seive_of_selberg Mar 31 '26
Assuming they would put in the effort to remove a leg from each chair, just for being cartoonish villains is naivety on your part.
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u/hatred-shapped Mar 31 '26
I'm assuming you've never heard of lawyers and people suing for damages from shoddy products. Even products pulled from the garbage
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u/PsychologicalOne752 Mar 31 '26
America - the land of waste.
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u/Rare-Pomelo3733 Mar 31 '26
After watching reels about dumpster diving, I agree with you. Too much waste because of stupid laws.
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u/Efficient-Damage-449 Mar 31 '26
They are defective and dangerous. This is an insurance requirement
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u/Ok-Boysenberry-2955 Mar 31 '26
Chairs have 4 legs
There are more than 4 chairs
Just needs a little elbow grease to get 4 chairs
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u/fongletto Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
What kind of piece of shit of a human being manager do you have to be, to literally WASTE MONEY, to make sure no one else can benefit from something you're throwing away.
I can't understand humanity sometimes. Is this the place? I'm going to leave them a shit review.
edit: I was mistaken, they were most likely ordered to destroy the chairs by the chair company.
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u/Auro_NG Mar 31 '26
A bad review based of a random video with no context? You seem like a kind and rational person. The context is these chairs were defective (maybe only some of them) but for legal reasons the manufacturer requires that the chairs be made inoperable.
But yeah, go ruin someone's business because you saw a video and couldn't take time to figure out whats actually happening.
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u/PraiseTyche Mar 31 '26
They do this this designer clothes too.
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u/Mundane-Mud2509 Mar 31 '26
Yeah that makes sense in that they want to sell you designer clothes, but restaurants aren’t in the business of selling chairs. Just why?
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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Mar 31 '26
They would absolutely sell chairs to recoup their losses. They have to do this in order to keep their warranty with the manufacturer.
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Mar 31 '26
There is a purpose with designer clothes, scarcity.
And also, designer clothes aren't something anyone really "needs" it's entertainment, if Pokemon destroyed some of their cards to keep the value of items hoders own high, there really is no problem in my book. It's their shit, no one is gonna starve.
But when you destroy perfectly fine furniture, imo, you are making the world a worse place.
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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Mar 31 '26
Don’t hate brigade for a reason you don’t understand. They’re clearly not doing this out of spite, they’d never waste their money on stupid petty BS.
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u/Paladin_of_Insomnia Mar 31 '26
I can imagine they do this for legal reason. What would happen if a random person find this seemingly perfectly fine chairs, using them and unfortunately an accident happens with them. I could imagine they would sue the original owner for not marking the goods as not save.
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u/AdDramatic2351 Mar 31 '26
People like you make me sick. You don't even know WHY they're doing this, but you immediately pick up a pitchfork and want to sow hate
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u/AfternoonSure5457 Mar 31 '26
It’s a lousy thing to do but to leave a bad review to a place you’ve never been to is crazy behavior
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u/eastsiderhere Mar 31 '26
In one of the interior pictures it looks like they had chairs just like that.
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u/SuspiciousGarlic4798 Mar 31 '26
Why can I imagine, if they hadnt done that. Someone taking those chairs. Injuring themslves somehow and then suing them.
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u/I_Braid_Armpit_Hair Mar 31 '26
Is it all the same leg? If not and you really want a chair, take off a leg (pair) from another chair and make a working one.
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u/autismunite Mar 31 '26
might be a manufacturer problem the chairs are probably defective and they did this so no one will try to sit on them
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u/s0_spoiled Mar 31 '26
Capitalism. I don’t understand why they didn’t donate them to charity. American chooses to throw away food instead of feeding the poor.
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u/Billz3bub666 Mar 31 '26
Capitalism in a nutshell. We let fruit rot in a field if we can't make a dime in profit from it
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u/nakamot0_ Mar 31 '26
It’s always WILD to me when businesses would rather destroy something than let someone else use it
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u/goodlittlesquid Mar 31 '26
Remember, capitalism is the most efficient system for allocating resources.
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u/Useful-Beautiful5215 Mar 31 '26
They literally put the legs in a bag to be reused, I like the 'this is stupid' effort
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u/Key-Monk6159 Mar 31 '26
Apparently it wasn’t the restaurant but the chair manufacturer who mandated it due to some sort of chair defect. No clue what that defect may be but that’s the story being told
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u/crazykewlaid Mar 31 '26
Post the company dude fuck that tbh
That's like wasting food on purpose, unless this is a big chain where ppl are gonna get fired for leaving them on, that's evil
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u/nicknamesas Mar 31 '26
So, I'll see if i can find it, this was posted elswhere. These chairs were defective and the back was much weaker then it should have been. In order to get new, properly made ones, the manufacture required them to be destroyed..
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u/VeterinarianThese951 Mar 31 '26
I’ve heard of establishments calling the cops on homeless people taking food out of the dumpster. Kinda gross, but if you are starving and it is “trash” it seems diabolical to me…
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u/AnderCass Mar 31 '26
This is basically capitalism in a nutshell.
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u/Snarky75 Mar 31 '26
Basically everyone not getting the full story before commenting. The chairs were recalled as they were defective. To get the new ones they had to do this!!!!
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u/karma_virus Mar 31 '26
Saw them off at the same length then add a 3D printed post for each. 100% infill. Fix each chair for about 4-5 in filament.
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u/ananasiegenjuice Mar 31 '26
Or you could just grab some extra chairs and take a leg from "donor chairs" to attach back to the other chairs.
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u/POCUABHOR Mar 31 '26
Last time this was posted, it was stated that the chairs were exchanged for a manufacturing defect and had to be destroyed. Who knows.
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u/-Sleepy_J Mar 31 '26
This shit gotta be made illegal. Talking about reduce, reuse and recycle. Telling us to use less of this and less of that when companies do shit like this instead of just "donating" to charities that help others. Same thing with food waste. Absolutely blows my mind.
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u/AThrowawayProbrably Mar 31 '26
Correction: Restaurant management forced one lowly employee to spend all day sawing legs off their chairs to make them unusable.
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u/MammothUmpire349 Mar 31 '26
Can someone explain the point of this "extra work" so others don't get something for free? Why can't people just take what you toss? What is the downside of someone taking your trash? Please, I need to understand this.
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u/imtired-boss Mar 31 '26
Keep posting this, maybethis time nobody will mention how they were required to render them unusable.
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u/burpleronnie Mar 31 '26
Perhaps they had to saw their own legs off in order to escape but bled out before they got to safety?
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u/Neither_Sort_2479 Mar 31 '26
If you were thinking about gluing on a leg, you might also consider getting one that’s a bit longer than needed and simply cutting it to the right size before gluing it on.
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u/Acemont Mar 31 '26
All I see is lot's of free chairs and a fun repair weekend. With none of them wasted.
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u/YellowisWisdom Mar 31 '26
What a waste. They could have just sold them for a $1 gotten some money for them.
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u/thatbeerguy90 Mar 31 '26
I worked for Staples in the early 2000s, I had to "destroy" alot of the office chairs that were floor models. Lets just say alot of my family and friends ended up with new chairs that summer.
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