An Amazon worker says her boss threatened to fire her if she didn’t finish her deliveries during the deadly tornado in Illinois.
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Last week, the anonymous worker informed her boss that the tornado sirens in the area were going off and said she wanted to return back to the warehouse for safety. However, her boss said in response that if she wanted to keep her job, she needed to complete all of her deliveries via text message. 80 minutes after the exchange, the tornado struck the Amazon warehouse in
One of the messages reads, ‘If you decided to come back, that choice is yours. But I can tell you it won’t be viewed as for your own safety. The safest practice is to stay exactly where you are. If you decide to return with your packages, it will be viewed as you refusing your route, which will ultimately end with you not having a job come tomorrow morning. The sirens are just a warning.’
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The messages continued to say: “Just keep delivering for now. We have to wait for word from Amazon. If we need to bring people back, the decision will ultimately be up to them. I will let you know if the situation changes at all. I’m talking with them now about it.” The worker decided she was going to return to the center but the conversation began to escalate.
Her supervisor told her to seek shelter after the tornado struck the warehouse. A spokesperson said due to the supervisor’s behavior, they may be terminated from their job at Amazon.
‘{The supervisor} didn’t follow the standard safety practice,’ and ‘should have immediately directed the driver to seek shelter’ when they first learned of the oncoming tornado and ‘under no circumstance should the dispatcher have threatened the driver’s employment.’
SOURCE: Daily Mail