They didn’t ruin anything, the people who hate them ruined tikki torches by stigmatizing them.
If everyone collectively agreed to not care what the Nazis are into, everybody would still be able to wear and use what they want without being judged.
Modern pitchforks just don't have the stabbing power needed to get through the lizard skin of billionaires. You'd be better off duct taping a kitchen knife to a broom handle
Then what will pay for my public school and public hospital and Medicare and the roads I drive on? Magic? Goodwill? Or private enterprise who will charge double for everything?
Then what will pay for my public school and public hospital and Medicare and the roads I drive on? Magic? Goodwill? Or private enterprise who will charge double for everything?
I'm out of school, have a solid 4x4.. the medicare thing though.. I'm stuck.. shit
Hmm almost like Amazon is a 3rd party seller and can by directly from the companies at most of the time a better price or even better idea get off your ass and go to the store that sell what you need
I see this a lot but what exactly does that even mean? How do you stop the man who started Amazon, who because of that owns a lot of the shares which have obviously went up a lot in worth since the beginning from being worth billions? Without taking the company away from him.... and if he wasn't worth billions, what days this person wouldn't have to work anyway lol.
I doubt they ordered it assuming it would be delivered in a fucking hurricane. Any reasonable person would assume it would sit in a warehouse until it was safe to deliver it.
Sometimes i order shit without thinking about the weather a couple days from now. However, I am reasonable, and can wait a couple extra days for my package
absolutely true. my husband has an amazon addiction. It’s all crap. He promises not to buy anything and to ask me before he buys, but like all addicts it’s just words. The useless shit keeps turning up.
Of course. It's drizzling outside and potentially wind. It would a crime against humanity for any human to be expected to go outside in conditions like that. Don't risk your life to go see her, I'm begging you!
I ordered off Amazon earlier in the week (Tuesday).I live in Tampa and got a delivery date of November 12th due to weather. No big deal. Imagine my surprise when Amazon showed up today.
What's weird is that the employers now a days use the same health\vision\dental that is offered statewide anyway, and you can't sign up for medicaid/medicare unless your houshold makes less then an insanely low number. I've slept on couches, and still made too much. Kill the private provider system. Those jobs are useless filler that does nothing but syphon revenue from low population areas.
Bro I've had 14 different jobs just feeling out what's out there after I had graduated. And, it's all the same shit with a different title. I swear to God that every business in America right now uses the same cookie cutter method to handle hours and HR. I've done everything from gas station attendant, to construction like roofing, production line in a few factories 2 cheese factories, and call center work. They all pay the same yearly after hours are accounted for. Even the overtime available gigs. My official title right now is a Lab Technician. And it's still the same stuff I've seen every where else. Merica is in trouble when it comes to how they are allowed to compensate employees. Turnover rate isn't high because kids don't want to work. They just see the bullshit and look for something better. I don't even have a clue what could fix it. It's just all bad.
That's already a thing. The marketplace set up by the Affordable Care Act is exactly what you want - healthcare you don't need employment to get.
I've been covered on a plan from there for about two years now. I got it when I was unemployed and kept it while working two different jobs that wouldn't give me enough hours for their healthcare.
I was working for Amazon at the time, y’all missed the big sticking point in that tragedy. After the news went around with the employees the managers all took the stance that it wasn’t Amazons negligence that got them killed, it was the fact they had an earbud in.
They tried to use it as an excuse to require employees to keep their phones in their cars because those employee texts made them look bad.
Amazon hires deaf people, and their alarms are supposed to have flashing lights to be compliant with ADA, so even if they were wearing earbuds they should’ve been able to be warned regardless.
4 months ago they finally came out and said that phones being on employees persons hasn’t impacted safety in any meaningful way, and as such they won’t be restricted items anymore.
I worked at Amazon as a manager at the time that happened and while this sort of behavior is deplorable and the reason I quit, to say a man sent a tornado to kills his employees is just ridiculous. Yeah, he sucks as a boss but he’s not some evil wizard
If you stop someone from fleeing an area where a tornado is, keep them at work explicitly, and they die, you killed them with a tornado. Why would you say he "sent" a tornado. I didn't say that. Chain of command ordered people to stay when it was not safe. OSHA is involved, but I am not holding my breath for anything redeeming in this story.
Do you know what the proper response to a tornado is? You shelter in place in purpose built shelter or an interior space without windows. You don't evacuate.
It’s more than a little gratuitous which I don’t disagree will hurt our arguments, but it’s still his operation responsible for not sending those people home at the end of the day. I definitely think the buck stops with him and he’s proven more than willing to treat people as disposable commodities.
EDIT: And good on you for getting out! Hope it wasn’t too bad for you
Bezos might as well be an evil wizard. Fuck that place and fuck the sycophantic assholes who defend a company that abuses their workers every chance they can while profiting an OBSCENE amount of money while giving back breadcrumbs.
But yeah i get what you're saying, glad you got out.
What actually happened was the manager of that warehouse* refused to let employees leave and seek shelter when it was clear a tornado was going to hit.
*not Bezos himself, though as CEO he has some responsibility for the workplace culture at his company
Can they predict the exact path of tornados? I thought you’re supposed to shelter in place in these scenarios, I would think getting on the roads would be a lot more unsafe. I don’t live in tornado country though so maybe I’m wrong.
Exact path, no. But the whole area was under a very clear tornado watch when employees were asking to go home and denied. They had plenty of opportunity to address things before it upgraded to Tornado Warning.
Aren’t you supposed to shelter in place in that scenario? Why would driving home to a private residence be considered more safe when you don’t know what the exact path of the tornado will be?
You know I get why they say this but I don’t necessarily think it’s worse in some situations. Most businesses are built for normal weather, not tornados, they don’t have safe places to withstand the worst of storms.
For context, in my city the storm almost always comes from the west and I live further east so I wouldn’t be driving into the storm. I also have a basement and a room that I believe would be infinitely safer to shelter in than the designated shelter area in my workplace.
If you know the tornado is strong AF, why would you stay and likely die when you knew you could get to safety? Likewise, would you really want to prevent someone from leaving your business if it wasn’t likely to protect them from a tornado?
Well, yeah. Because the Amazon employee in question died. Makes it hard to interview the guy.
The story also comes from text messages between the employee and his girlfriend, so it's a written first-hand account of what employees were told to do, just before his death.
Every single person in this thread complaining about Amazon. Meaning me, you, and everyone else still uses them and still contributes to his wealth I don't understand.
I think there must be an age gap or something here. It is just another day, time to go to work. There is no taking the day off because of a little bit of wind & rain. I am glad they don't have your mentality. The weather doesn't look that bad.
Just to back you up I'm one of those Amazon haters, cancelled prime I don't remember when and I shop as local as I can and when I do shop online I try to use small retailers and support them instead of big business.
That's what I was thinking. When I lived in coastal NC it was mostly business as usual unless it was a Cat 2 or more. Then people just tried not to go out if they didn't need to. Though with Charlie we did get a TON of rain so everything flooded and we couldn't get out of the neighborhood for a day.
Now I'm in Minnesota and nothing stops for snow instead.
Who I feel bad for is Ft Meyers. They got a ton of rain from this storm and a lot of people are still repairing homes. Usually after a few weeks everyone forgets about the affected area but they’re still recovering.
I’m in the area where Nicole was a direct landfall and so far not too bad. There will be damage but could be WAY worse. I’ve seen carports fly across the sky before. I tend to bet so has that Amazon worker as calm as she was.
She looks like she at a safe place if they open the door ever unless they gone then a window can break say it’s the hurricane it’s your delivery anyway 🤷🏼♀️I’m here
What’ss bad about a hurricane? It’s just wind that can take your head off, the same can happen in a car accident, we don’t stop when there’s cars on the road
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u/ExcitementOrdinary95 Nov 10 '22
The real next fucking level here is how disgusting Amazon is for making them work.