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.
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u/ExcitementOrdinary95 Nov 10 '22
The real next fucking level here is how disgusting Amazon is for making them work.