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The article says employees were notified to go to the shelter-in-place area? It's phrased a bit strangely so I don't know if it means 'our policy is to do X' or
by KingMachiavelli 5y ago
The article says employees were notified to go to the shelter-in-place area? It's phrased a bit strangely so I don't know if it means 'our policy is to do X' or if it means 'we actually did X'.
> Amazon said all employees were normally notified and directed to move to a designated, marked shelter-in-place location when a site was made aware of a tornado warning in the area.
I have had to shelter in place for tornadoes a few times in school but that really meant getting every person in a single room so you could evacuate if needed. It sounds like either the tornado that hit the warehouse either formed too quickly and close by for them to respond or perhaps there was some process/training issue where someone forgot they needed to be watching the weather closely. It would also be easy to accidentally be getting weather news for a nearby but different location.
- jfrunyon 5y agoHaving worked in an Amazon warehouse (as a contractor, but my wife was a direct Amazon employee in the same warehouse at a time), I can tell you that if they had any severe weather plans, none of the employees were aware of them. By "employees were notified" they likely mean "the MOD shit his pants and screamed 'RUUUUUUUUN' "