Sure, if you're an idiot it who only read as far as tornado and factory in the headline it probably sounds very similar just like how someone who is violently murdered by the serial killer sounds exactly the same as someone who got in a car accident where a drunk driver was at fault because they were both killed by people.
Based on the information we have right now confusing the two stories helps no one and contusing to dig deeper on this hill of ignorance doesn't really help you either. Now rub your amazon hate bonner with thoughts of Jeff bezos getting lost in space and just accept that.
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Literally the same shit happened with Amazon warehouse.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amaz...friend-2021-12
Amazon worker killed in warehouse collapse wasn't allowed to leave when the tornado approached, girlfriend says
An Amazon worker who was killed in the Edwardsville, Illinois, warehouse collapse wasn't allowed to leave as a tornado was approaching, his girlfriend told the New York Post.
Larry Virden, who started working for Amazon five months ago, was among the six employees who died in the destruction. A large wall in the warehouse and a section of the roof collapsed.
Virden's girlfriend, Cherie Jones, told the Post in an article published Sunday that she was texting him shortly before.
"He always tells me when he is filling up the Amazon truck when he is getting ready to go back … I was like 'OK, I love you.' He's like, 'well Amazon won't let me leave until after the storm blows over,'" she told the Post.
Jones told the Post that Virden texted her 16 minutes before the tornado was said to have touched down. She said this was enough time to get back to their house in nearby Collinsville, which she said was a 13-minute drive away.
"We heard the tornado didn't touch down until 8:39 so he had 20 minutes to get home," she told the Post.
Jones said Virden sent his text at about 8:23 p.m.
"I messaged him and that was the last text message I got from him," she told the Post. "I told him where we live, it was only lightning at the time. After that, I got nothing from him."
Jones told the Post she did not want to blame Amazon for her partner's death but that she couldn't help but wonder.
"It's that what-if situation: what if they would have let him leave? He could have made it home," she told the Post.
I would think that buildings constructed in tornado-prone areas should have to be built to give people a place to adequately shelter to the same degree that buildings built in earthquake-prone areas have to be built to specific construction standards.
In that it should be straight-up illegal not to. Especially when you consider there are almost 1000 tornadoes a year in the US, and there are maybe 100 dangerous earthquakes across the entire world in the same time period.
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That would make sense,however the the tornado prone areas are bible thumping supply side Jesus corporations can do no wrong Republican strongholds,so good luck getting those rules implemented with out getting the Federal government to cover all the costs of the installation and any losses incurred during their use.
And I seriously wish to fuck I was joking,but having lived in tornado alley for a few years I know I'm right. :/
The United States has some of the dumbest zoning laws and building codes in history, we have people building in known flood and tornado zones. Every single year there's tragedy and destruction then they rebuild to do the same fucking thing over again. It's pure insanity that we allow people to build wherever they want in so many states even worse that the government provides insurances for this.
The manager is correct.
You don't leave during tornado.
If you die on the road, you got nothing.
If you die on the job in the building, the company has to pay for the death.
/eyeroll Jesus.
On topic: while I get the "stay inside where it's safer" angle, I do, the issue appears to be "if you leave the building, you're fired" and the message that conveys. Management is denying this, so even they know they're not allowed to do this.
I also understand the idea of saying "you're safer in here" but the factory was leveled, so no, they weren't.
Firing someone for leaving their shift without warning isn't something I'm going to oppose in an abstract case, but this doesn't appear to be one. And it's going to be hard to prove this because (a) I doubt the supervisors in question said something on a voice mail or email and (b) many of the witnesses appear to be dead.
And of course, "You can't leave, you have to stay here" is vague.
This feels like a civil case that will end up being settled. And only because the building collapsed. If the building had stayed up, those workers saying "they told us they'd fire us if we left" probably wouldn't have a case at all.
Like, if the response from management had been "you can't leave, there's a tornado warning and we don't want you to die. We need to get everyone in the building into the safest spot we have until the danger's passed", then nobody would have an issue.
Instead, the reasons given appear to have been about work, and there was a complete lack of any attempt to get staff to safety.
That should be considered the kind of gross malicious negligence that should see the companies responsible found 100% responsible for those deaths. And by that I mean the manager (if they survived) facing multiple counts of negligence leading to homicide, and stretching that as high into upper management as the policies go; if that policy came down from corporate, then put the board on trial for those counts of negligence leading to homicide. Every single one of them. If they can show they voted against that policy, they can get found not guilty, but if they did vote for it, prison.
Exploitative abusers shouldn't be able to get away with willful negligence leading to death just because they're rich.
Yeah, ideally. In practical terms, there's got to be some spaces that are more-strongly constructed than the warehouse floor; the office spaces or whatever I imagine.
Nobody should have been out on the warehouse floor in the middle of a tornado warning. Nobody should have been "working", even if they were on-site.