Tornado, Schmornado, You have a Quota to Meet

Thoughts and prayers going out to our team in Edwardsville tonight and thank you to all the first responders.

— Dave Clark (@davehclark) December 11, 2021

This is literally the most transparently insincere thing he could possibly say

Where people afraid to stop working too? pic.twitter.com/yayeCDBW3n

— Defeated (@Defeated777) December 12, 2021

A real piece of work, this one.

Given that Amazon has kept its workers on the clock when it was so hot that there were literal queues of ambulances for the resulting heat exhaustion, it really should not surprise us that Amazon threatened any employes at its Illinois warehouse with firing if they left to get to shelter should not surprise us.

Still, it is a telling indicator of just how vile Amazon is to their workers.

You notice Amazon CEO Dave Clark's missive in response to the tragedy is truly horrible. My outraged response to his tweet, wherein I suggested that he should get Fatal Familial Insomnia, resulted in my 12 hour ban from Twitter.

Rather famously, Mr. Clark would lurk in warehouses looking for employees he thought were slacking so that he could fire them.

It should be noted that this is the same sort of contemptible rat-f%$#ery at the Mayfield candle factory in Kentucky, so the problems are more generally systemic with US style hyper capitalism:

One of the victims who was killed when a tornado collapsed an Amazon warehouse in Illinois texted his girlfriend before the deadly tornado struck saying that the company had ordered him to hold off driving home and stay put until the storm passed.

Larry Virden, 46, was killed Friday night when the roof came down at a massive Amazon facility.

“I got text messages from him. He always tells me when he is filling up the Amazon truck when he is getting ready to go back … I was like ‘OK, I love you.’ He’s like, ‘well Amazon won’t let me leave until after the storm blows over,’” his girlfriend of 13 years, Cherie Jones, told The Post on Sunday.

She said the text was sent around 8:23 p.m., 16 minutes before the tornado reportedly touched down at 8:39. The couple lived in nearby Collinsville, which Jones said is about 13 minutes away from the warehouse.

I cannot imagine a better argument for a labor union.