"If you leave before the tornado, you will be fired"

There'll be quite a few workers' comp claims!

For some businessmen, profit tops safety.

Sounds almost like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

Well, those that left early will have a letter placed in their permanent file.

That file is now located in the next state over :(……….

Film Rep wrote:

Are these people serious? 🙄

In a tornado, it is better to be in a building, preferably in a central area with no windows and strong walls. Driving around the countryside in a car is much less safe.

Now if the order was given with plenty of time for people to reach home and get in a secure place, that is a different thing.

GOD BLESS THESE PATRIOT MANAGERS FOR GIVING ALL THERE GOD-FEARING FELLOW AMERICANS SUCH OPPORTUNTITY!

Those employees are LUCKY that a successful business like Amazon gave them an employment opportunity. Of course, the commie crowd is in their feelings about some of them dying but Amazon was basically keeping those workers alive with its creation of wages. They were well within their rights to decide to roll the dice with the safety of THEIR workers. Hindsight is 20/20. If those drivers had been allowed to go home, Amazon would have run the risk of ceding ground to other businesses and might have given a huge competitive advantage to innovative free market entrepreneurs.

I find it HIGHLY unlikely that was ever said, and the company denies that it was.

I'm betting this is the media jumping the gun on alleged facts that they love and desperately WISH were true, and when it's discovered what really was said and it what context, it will be very different from what is reported now.

Randy Republican wrote:

Those employees are LUCKY that a successful business like Amazon gave them an employment opportunity. Of course, the commie crowd is in their feelings about some of them dying but Amazon was basically keeping those workers alive with its creation of wages. They were well within their rights to decide to roll the dice with the safety of THEIR workers. Hindsight is 20/20. If those drivers had been allowed to go home, Amazon would have run the risk of ceding ground to other businesses and might have given a huge competitive advantage to innovative free market entrepreneurs.

Is Amazon buying up candle factories now? They will soon have a monopoly and we can expect the price of scented candles to go through the roof.

Vineyard Vines wrote:

In a tornado, it is better to be in a building, preferably in a central area with no windows and strong walls. Driving around the countryside in a car is much less safe.

Now if the order was given with plenty of time for people to reach home and get in a secure place, that is a different thing.

You must be choking on that boot right now.

source or just BS?

Grace Kelly wrote:

Film Rep wrote:

Are these people serious? 🙄

https://www.yahoo.com/now/factory-bosses-workers-tornado-leave-214937404.html

Just the normal American Greed. Nobody should be surprised.

Odds man grounded wrote:

I find it HIGHLY unlikely that was ever said, and the company denies that it was.

I'm betting this is the media jumping the gun on alleged facts that they love and desperately WISH were true, and when it's discovered what really was said and it what context, it will be very different from what is reported now.

Of course the company denies it, they will likely be facing lawsuits.

Vineyard Vines wrote:

In a tornado, it is better to be in a building, preferably in a central area with no windows and strong walls. Driving around the countryside in a car is much less safe.

Now if the order was given with plenty of time for people to reach home and get in a secure place, that is a different thing.

No doubt what you say is true, yet the supervisor was not telling people to stay for their own safety. He was saying "if you leave, you might get fired".

Odds man grounded wrote:

I find it HIGHLY unlikely that was ever said, and the company denies that it was.

I'm betting this is the media jumping the gun on alleged facts that they love and desperately WISH were true, and when it's discovered what really was said and it what context, it will be very different from what is reported now.

That may well be true. If, as noted in the article, the woman overheard it being said to 4 other workers then that could be 5 witnesses who heard it. Yes, it could have been said in context to something else. Like the tornado is coming and one of the workers asked "Hey Bob just out of curiosity if I took a huge dump on your desk, what might happen". Bob, "You would probably be fired".

But yes there is a chance it is misunderstood.

Randy Republican wrote:

Those employees are LUCKY that a successful business like Amazon gave them an employment opportunity. Of course, the commie crowd is in their feelings about some of them dying but Amazon was basically keeping those workers alive with its creation of wages. They were well within their rights to decide to roll the dice with the safety of THEIR workers. Hindsight is 20/20. If those drivers had been allowed to go home, Amazon would have run the risk of ceding ground to other businesses and might have given a huge competitive advantage to innovative free market entrepreneurs.

That's a great rant about Amazon, but it has nothing to do with this candle factory in Kentucky.

Also, if there is a tornado bearing down then it is possible that the house a driver is delivering to might not be there when he gets there.

Greed is the root of all evil. The foundation of capitalism is greed. It doesn’t care about safety. It doesn’t care about people. The communists are actually the greatest capitalists. Their goal is slave wage workers, poor quality products, and high margins. Just look at China and their relationship with the Trumps and Biden’s.

It all started when Adam and Eve wanted a piece of Gods apple action.

If there’s tornado warning, isn’t it safer to stay inside and take shelter? I would think it would be safer in a factory then to be driving home.

It sucks thst the warehouse got hit but I would think a warehouse would be safer than in a car or in their own home. It just sucks that the tornado hit the factory.