Posted on 12/13/2021 4:45:30 PM PST by Scarlett156
I can safely say that if I heard there was a chance of tornadoes, I would call my wife and tell her to come into where I work.
I live in a 1961 cookie cutter slab ranch, and in the case of a tornado (which terrifies my wife) our house would only be a step above a trailer in a trailer park, with nowhere to go.
Our plan is to pull a heavy couch over the top of us. There is absolutely no place we could call even remotely safe. Fortunately, we don’t get many tornadoes, but...all it takes is one.
As a matter of fact, the most dangerous situation is to be caught by tornado in the car!
Companies have tornado shelters. In situation like this, workers should take the shelter, not going out!
I was the manager of a cable TV company when a rare hurricane hit New England.
I stayed at the building with volunteer staff. Our job was to get the phones up and running, get generators going, and start to deploy trucks for repairs.
Our call center (about 150 people—mostly moms) was back up and running within hours. All but a couple employees got back to start our operation. The ones who didn’t show were stuck on their streets by downed trees.
I caught some crap from the regional bosses about allowing people to go home. I didn’t care. I did the right thing. And gained a lot of cred among my staff.
Managers have to realize their jobs —for the most —are not life and death.
This happened on a Monday. A good part of our plant was on the ground. Can you believe we had idiots calling to see if they would be able to watch “MondayNight Football.” Customers suck.
“On 9-11, people in the towers were told by the experts to shelter in the place .” Just like in Afghanistan this past Fall, the State Dept sent message that the American citizens should shelter in place. I bet many are still there, waiting.
When there is trouble, we can either run, hide or fight.
I like to remind myself of this. Run, hide or fight.
Excellent point
The line managers probably make $2 more per hour, if that, and don’t get overtime.
As a matter of fact, the most dangerous situation is to be caught by tornado in the car!
Companies have tornado shelters. In situation like this, workers should take the shelter, not going out!
“Yep, I worked for an electric sign manufacturer in Missouri and it was messed up. Quite the evil owner and his family.”
Wasn’t in the ST Louis area, by chance was it?
I was basically fired for leaving early to avoid the Rita evacuation debacle. Halliburton wanted every last employee to work to the last minute and then leave all at once — just like everyone else.
When you realize you work for idiots its hard to care if you lose your job. I was unemployed for one weekend over that.
Down I-44 a bit in Richland. Signfab. Wholesale to the trade. Old Southern boy still pissed off about the Civil War. I’m originally from MA and he caught the accent in the interview. Asked where I was from so I said FL because I’d lived there longer than MA so he asked again, “but where are you from” so I told him MA and he nodded with a bit of a hateful look.
The family business plays a ton of head games with employees. It’s pretty sickening.
“Illinois is not considered tornado alley”
I respectfully disagree for Southern Ill and W. Ky.
A tornado is coming at my ass, there is no “asking” involved. Screw you, I’m gone. I’ve gone through tornadoes at work, but that was at a state prison and those cell blocks are built like battleships. A flimsy box building like that? Good-bye.
CC
Im just kinda sick...i need to go home,,,let me go or I will throw up on you
When a tornado is bearing down on you, the LAST place you want to be is outside.
And realistically, the chances of being hit like that are really pretty slim. A direct hit to take out the entire building is not likely. Neither was a funnel that size.
Hind sight is 20/20.
Where I used to work did not have a tornado plan because the building was tornado proof...so they said, lol.
Just out of curiosity (I don't live in an area likely to ever see a tornado), but I was once in Dallas, headed to Fort Worth (?) The sky was low, green and clouds were moving in multiple directions. I knew nature's shenanigans were afoot, so I turned on the radio and was told tornadoes were in the area and that I should "seek selter". There weren't a lot of structures, and at that time of day, none were open, so I parked under an overpass (which I was really lucky to find!).
What would an informed, reasonable person choose to do in that situation?
12 Dec: Sun US: SIGNAL FAILURE Amazon workers slam phone ban they say stops them getting deadly weather warnings as six die in warehouse collapse
by Frances Mulraney
AMAZON workers have slammed a phone ban that prevents them from bringing devices into warehouses after at least six people were killed in a tornado building collapse.
An Amazon worker who tried to warn colleagues has been named among the victims of Friday night’s tragedy when a string of tornadoes ripped through six states...
Amazon has reportedly banned its workers from carrying their phones on the warehouse floor, acccording to Bloomberg.
It requires devices to be left in cars or in lockers before passing security checks.
The ban had reporetdly been eased during the pandemic but was being reinforced in the past few months...
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4256385/amazon-tornado-warehouse-collapse-phone-ban/
What you did.
*nods*
Let me also say that I am pretty good at turning green if I only drink a half-cup of cold coffee.
I don’t believe this story.
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