WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS SHITT User ID: 81595972 12/19/2021 04:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado I'm literally stuck in this damn van without a safe place to go with a tornado on the ground!" [ link to www.zerohedge.com (secure)] More damning information about the deadly workplace disaster at an Amazon building in Illinois emerged on Friday when a delivery driver shared records of a conversation she had with her boss, which revealed that the e-commerce giant threatened to fire her if she didn't keep delivering packages even as tornado sirens blared. "Radio's been going off," the driver told her supervisor—less than an hour and a half before a twister hit one of Amazon's warehouses in Edwardsville—in a text message obtained by Bloomberg News. "Keep delivering," her boss replied. "We can't just call people back for a warning unless Amazon tells us to." Amazon was already in hot water for forcing employees to attend their shifts that deadly Friday despite the impending storm and refusing to let them leave before catastrophe struck. Six workers were crushed to death when a warehouse that is being investigated for possible building code violations collapsed—exemplifying the company's long track record of prioritizing profits over occupational safety, critics say. New evidence that Amazon also pressured delivery drivers to work through a tornado instead of immediately helping them obtain safe shelter has only increased the amount of contempt that many people have for one of the world's most powerful corporations. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74066157 United States 12/19/2021 04:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado |
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Forest Soul
User ID: 81121539 United States 12/19/2021 04:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado Shows how much they care about their employees. Same as the people they forced to work in the warehouse when they knew tornados were coming. Its evil and corrupt behavior and it must stop Forest Soul |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 81595972 12/19/2021 04:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado Shows how much they care about their employees. Same as the people they forced to work in the warehouse when they knew tornados were coming. Its evil and corrupt behavior and it must stop
Quoting: Forest Soul |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81595227 United States 12/19/2021 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado All big companies like Amazon claim that "the safety of employees is their highest priority". Its all a bunch of total BS!! Safety is always the very lowest priority. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 81595972 12/19/2021 04:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado
All big companies like Amazon claim that "the safety of employees is their highest priority". Its all a bunch of total BS!! Safety is always the very lowest priority.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81595227 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78240298 12/19/2021 05:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81591287 12/19/2021 05:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado When are they going to start putting people in prison for their destructive avarice? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81067085 United States 12/19/2021 05:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado
Damn! My work shut down shut down early on second shift and cancelled third shift so that everybody could be done driving when it hit. If management does the math, they find it is more profitable to lose a few hours of productivity than to lose employee lives and have to hire and train replacements right in the middle of the busy season. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 81595972 12/19/2021 05:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado Damn! My work shut down shut down early on second shift and cancelled third shift so that everybody could be done driving when it hit.
If management does the math, they find it is more profitable to lose a few hours of productivity than to lose employee lives and have to hire and train replacements right in the middle of the busy season.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81067085 |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 81595972 12/19/2021 05:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado When are they going to start putting people in prison for their destructive avarice?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81591287 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77670768 United States 12/19/2021 05:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texts Show Amazon Threatened To Fire Driver If Packages Not Delivered During Deadly Tornado Amazon needs to be held accountable for this. |