This makes sense if you get word of the tornado 20 minutes before it hits but this storm system was being broadcasted and warned about up to 2 hours before I heard anything about a tornado even touching down

Well then yeah if that's the case the employees should have been sent home before things got bad. But of course it's Amazon so the show must go on.

It's a difficult situation.

Tornadoes sometimes have ample time for people to prepare and get out of the way. Sometimes they literally appear out of nowhere. The former is more common, but the latter isn't improbable. It is very very dangerous to be out on the road when there is tornado warnings in your area.

The midwest here is full of floodplains, especially in Illinois, so warehouses and buildings aren't able to have basements or dedicated underground shelters a lot of the times.

That being said, it is f***ing laughable that they had workers come in the next Monday. The very least you can do is give them a week paid off.

NOAA already put out that there was threat for a tornado in this exact area. Weather services were putting out broadcasts of tornadic supercells hours before a tornado touched down in this area, along with tornado watches and warnings

There was more than enough time to send the workers home

Tornado watch is very different from a tornado warning. We get tornado watches all the time here in the Chicagoland area-- no one does anything because the probability of a tornado hitting you is preeeetty low at that amount of forecasting, plus it's relatively common. There's a high average failure rate.

It's when the warnings hit and the severity rises that people start taking the situation seriously. At that point, a tornado strike is essentially imminent and the best course of action is to stay in place.

But that is my experience.

F***in disgusting, Amazon. horrible 🙏

once again shows that working at an amazon warehouse is the worst job you could ever get.praying for the families who lost loved ones due to these inhumane conditions

I'm familiar with how tornado watches often result in nothing substantial. I'm from the area where this happened at.

If I'm not prepared to send workers home because I see tornadic supercells heading my way at least an hour and a half in advance and instead I want to keep them here then I'm making sure warehouses have tornado shelters built out of adamantium instead of sending them to bathrooms

We’d known that severe weather was going to hit the region for over a week. There’s no room for Amazon to wiggle out of this, and it’s exactly why this hasn’t been reported on in major news channels

Fair. Note that I'm not defending Amazon at all, that company can rot in the ground.

It's just that it can be difficult to determine how severe meteorological warnings can be a good amount of time. Especially in areas that have gotten unfortunately "used to it". We see this in a lot of hurricane-stricken places.

That being said, the very f***ing least they could do is allow workers to have a few paid weeks off... imagine having to come back to the workplace the Monday after a few of your colleagues die from a natural disaster that you went through. Capitalist nightmare.

tough situation to judge