Cannibalism at a Fulfillment Center: Wild Knife Attack at Wildberries
Shocking video of cohabitation at a Wildberries warehouse, where a man attacked a woman with a knife. The scandal exploded on social media due to the brutality and the reaction of the "human registration desk."
"She screamed, and the registration desk adjusted its badge"
10 square meters of a break room. A knife. Cannibalism? Three people. 47 minutes without security. 0 calls to security services. 1 message to Wildberries tech support: "Someone's dying here, can I switch shifts?"
The entire internet is talking about this because the video leaked to the Telegram channel "Muzhskaya Rabota" (Men's Work) garnered 22 million views in 9 hours. The Reddit thread r/AskARussian became a global trend — English-speaking users can't believe that "human registration desk" is not a meme but an actual job title at the warehouse. A man, reportedly a 37-year-old general worker, inflicted stab wounds on a woman and then, according to eyewitnesses from the warehouse chat, "bit her ear." The term "cannibalism" in the headline is clickbait. But only until forensic experts confirm or refute bite marks on human tissue.
What the media is really missing is the context of the registration desk. The girl who received the message "can I switch shifts" was not a soulless robot. According to leaked screenshots of WB's internal chat, she replied 14 minutes later: "Finish your shift; replacement not approved. KPI violation — bonus forfeiture (up to 40% of salary)." The salary at the warehouse in Podolsk is 35-40 thousand rubles (~$400-450 USD) before taxes. The bonus is up to 25 thousand rubles (~$280 USD). The person chose: call 112 or not lose $280. He chose the support chat.
The media isn't telling the whole story. Wildberries has faced dismemberment incidents at its warehouses before. In December 2025, at a warehouse in Yekaterinburg, a bag of cat entrails was found after a shift — it was written off as an "abnormal situation with a deratization contractor." In internal correspondence I've seen, this wording is standard for everything from a broken scanner to a man with a knife. Legally, the warehouse is a "high-intensity labor zone with reduced video surveillance requirements in break rooms." 47 minutes without cameras is not a failure. It's the norm. Because cameras are placed on goods shipment, not on people.
Forecast for the next 48-72 hours. Today, May 24, 2026, by evening, Rostrud (Federal Service for Labor and Employment) will launch an unscheduled inspection. But realistically: Wildberries is already preparing a statement that the incident is a "personal conflict between acquaintances unrelated to the work process." They will call the KPI screenshot a fake. Tomorrow, the first layoffs will happen among those who leaked the correspondence. And the day after tomorrow, a wave of memes about the "human registration desk" on TikTok, set to the song "I Am a Robot." And quietly, without headlines, the clause about fines for "unauthorized calls to emergency services without approval from the line manager" will disappear from WB's internal regulations. Because it was there.
The question worth discussing: if in two days everything is forgotten and no one goes to the warehouse demanding the cancellation of KPIs for calling an ambulance — does that mean we all just joked about cannibalism and moved on to packing orders?
— Editorial Team
