Homesslessness in the US is about a coin flip off for death or suffering, every hour of every day. Quitting your job or getting fired for insubordination prevents you from collecting unemployment, and most Americans have less than a weeks expenses saved due the the last 60 years of low pay and exponentially rising expenses, causing homelessness if you lose your job. You might die in a hurricane induced flood, but that risk can seem less than slowly dying while homeless or in prison for being homeless.
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teft@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I do not understand the mentality. Companies do not care for your well-being. Don’t die for them just because your manager is an idiot that says “stay put”.
eacapesamsara@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
How likely are you actually going to get fired for not showing up one day during a hurricane?
I if the entire staff just didn’t show up that one day they’re probably not all going to get fired.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
In hindsight, your job is probably secure now that they are short staffed (which is fucking disgusting).
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
If flood waters are entering your place of business you’re not going to have a job tomorrow.
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 10 hours ago
A lifetime ago I worked at a place that gave a shit on paper for legal reasons.
One night I hear an unfamiliar alarm, as does everyone in my immediate vicinity.
My contribution to the conversation about the nature of the alarm was to say they could stay and discuss it if they wanted to. But I was not about to burn up for the assholes who ran the place. I was out the fire door with all its alarms before they figured out it was a phone left off the hook.Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Seriously! As a Floridian, I’ve told bosses I’m leaving on several occasions. It wasn’t a request. I’ll be back when it’s safe to do so.
treadful@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
We have the hindsight with full knowledge of the risk they were taking. I’d bet they only thought they were risking their next paycheck, not their lives.
teft@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You think floodwaters rising towards your building isn’t sufficient signs to know that you’re in a dangerous situation?
I’m sorry but I’ve seen enough in life to know you do not fuck with water on the move. Floods are dangerous as fuck. If the water is rising around you, get the fuck out of dodge or as high up as you can get.
treadful@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Nobody has ever been surprised by flood waters before. Paths of travel in low lying areas have never been cut off unexpectedly before. It must just be these dumb workers fault they drowned. /s
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
And f you’re in a factory hard at work, presumably can’t see the water rising, aren’t listening to the news? While they should have known ahead of time there was a bad storm, that’s different from knowing the factory would flood, and it’s quite possible they had no way to know while they worked. This is purely on management for staying open
Fermion@feddit.nl 12 hours ago
That area has never had that level of flooding since it was settled. Sure, everyone knows floods are dangerous, but not even the meteorologists were expecting the extent of flooding they actually got.
Have some humility and realize that you have access to knowledge now that would have sounded crazy before the events.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I think people are generally slow to realize that they are in a life-or-death situation. I’m not talking about just the victims here, but rather about everyone accustomed to living in safety. We’re so used to making choices where death is not a potential outcome that we simply don’t take the possibility into account.
I was in downtown Manhattan on 9/11, close enough to the World Trade Center that I felt the building I was in shake when the towers were hit. The funny thing is that I wasn’t scared. I wasn’t even horrified. The whole thing didn’t feel real. (Now I know that I was in absolutely no danger, but I couldn’t have known that at the time.)