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Santa Rosa, CA here. You have no idea how hard those PG&E workers busted their ass up here in Nor Cal during and after the Tubbs fire - a lot of them lost thei
by dfsegoat 8y ago
Santa Rosa, CA here.
You have no idea how hard those PG&E workers busted their ass up here in Nor Cal during and after the Tubbs fire - a lot of them lost their own homes, and they were still out doing their jobs before the firefighters were even allowed to start doing their jobs 24 hrs in.
On the gas side, they went to every house in the city - thousands of houses - and turned off gas, and then did the same thing to turn it back on. An army of workers went neighborhood to neighborhood just to make sure we didn't explode.
Factor in that there were no hotel vacancies, and the PG&E workers were willing to live in their trucks with 4 other dudes for 2 weeks straight, and yeah - I think they should be compensated.
- wheelerwj 8y agothanks for jumping in with this I think its a pretty rare case that an employer facing tens of billions in claims keeps paying into the comp plan and im pretty happy with PG&E right now. I think that likely its a good sign that they want to keep the employees motivated. one other thing OP talks about is that the payouts are up to 90k for senior members. that's a far cry from the millions that we see bank execs getting. I dont think we should treat this with such hostility.
- drivingmenuts 8y agoWhy should the senior execs get anything other than a pink slip and/or a very long look at the bad side of a prison cell door?
- wheelerwj 8y agofrankly, because they were promised it. if we create scenarios where employers can skip out on paying due compensation to employees who have already performed the work then our corporate system would be even more rigged then it is. In the case of corporate governance, we hold board members accountable. not employees who do as they are paid.