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The worst part is the Trump appointed SCOTUS basically made this legal to do.
EDIT: This comment of mine was misleading and unfair. Neil Gorsuch was not on the SCOTUS when he decided a truck driver forfeit his job without means of legal recourse by choosing to abandon his trailer and prevent death from Hypothermia.
Wait till you read Impact Plastics' public statement...
So they were only dismissed when the plant lost power and the workers were of no use to the company
And very literally after it was too late to safely leave.
Which means, by definition, they were not dismissed while they could safely leave.
"After the parking lot filled with water and the power went out, they were dismissed. For some reason they hung around??? It's peculiar that they chose to stay in a building after they were dismissed into the floodwaters."
Charge the manager with a separate count of murder for every employee that died due to their orders.
Murder wouldnt stick, have to prove intent.
Negligent Homicide or Criminal Negligence on the other hand...
That's a question for the jury. Charge the manager with all and let the jury decide.
Honestly, in the course of our species living in servitude to a few thousand sociopaths who've used their capital/power to convince us that meaningless productivity for toxic economic metasisis is "the only way forward" and the meaning of life, I've come to realize their terraforming of our only habitat against our physically fragile species in their blind, reckless pursuit of ever moar is a purely accidental mercy.
Extinction is far preferable to generation after generation sacrificing themselves from cradle to grave solely to enrich our modern pharoahs of avarice and their nepo progeny without end. Sometimes extinct is better.
You're free to disagree, of course, but better to see the silver lining in what our species is quite literally dead set to do and well into accomplishing. Im just glad greed caused climate change won't permit this torturous, exploitative civilization to continue for more than another half century or so.
I worked at a major destination-store focused on fishing and hunting products.
We had a hurricane hitting and the manager on duty made it clear that anyone going home to help out their families would be fired. Then when he got the call that water was rising near his house, he took off.
I've never hated a manager more than in that moment. When I was in management later, I made sure that I took all the shitty holiday shifts so my staff didn't have to work until 10pm on Christmas Eve and then be back in the building changing prices for the after-Christmas sale at 2am on the 26th.
Oh no, the store burned down just after you left! What a shame!
The good ol rules for me not for thee shenanigans
Man if I'm moving my parked car to avoid rising waters, I'm not re parking. I'm out of there.
Man if it's a state of emergency let the mgr sink with the ship.
It so sad, they probably complied because they needed their jobs.
Well on the bright side at least now they don't? I hope their families sue the shit out of the company and the manager.
Sorry boss. I don't die for nobody. Oh you want to fire me? I'm sure the Department of Labor and OSHA would love to hear about how you forced us to stay in a dangerous environment under threat of termination. I'm sure that'll end super swell for you.
You are correct but you have to survive not being paid long enough to win the court case. Sometimes even when people know their rights they are living paycheck to paycheck and cannot risk being fired.
Sadly, it might end just fine for the boss. The employee would be better off going to the press first.