Are Amazon workers somehow special that they get upvoted on HN. What a bizarre, bizarre society we're living in.
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Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
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#22I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn't until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real. Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. It went off a couple more times. One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for in…
if you live in tornado alley you ought to have an emergency radio, it at least gives you something to listen to while the power’s out https://www.amazon.com/Raynic-Emergency-Portable-Flashlight-...
There's something surreal about this being an Amazon link, for a customer in St. Louis.
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#23I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn't until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real. Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. It went off a couple more times. One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for in…
>The fall of TV means that in a situation like that, there isn't any "tune to your local TV station" type broadcast. All you get is a tornado siren. You didn't get a phone alert about it happening? I thought those were mandatory for these kinds of events, I think they even overrule some of the DND rules on your phone. I had something similar happen this summer, and I can't remember if I woke up from the alert and wen…
I definitely get the Amber-alert-style phone alert for Tornado warnings in my area.
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#24I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn't until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real. Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. It went off a couple more times. One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for in…
>The fall of TV means that in a situation like that, there isn't any "tune to your local TV station" type broadcast. All you get is a tornado siren. You didn't get a phone alert about it happening? I thought those were mandatory for these kinds of events, I think they even overrule some of the DND rules on your phone. I had something similar happen this summer, and I can't remember if I woke up from the alert and wen…
> You didn't get a phone alert about it happening? I thought those were mandatory for these kinds of events, I think they even overrule some of the DND rules on your phone.
I turned those off at the system level because the local authorities would abuse them to announce allegations of kidnapping, or license plate numbers of people who supposedly shot at cops and other such things that are not a threat to my life or safety (and thus not my business).
Apple, fortunately, in iOS 15 broke out the categories so you can turn off the "we want you to pay attention to this" crap from the police separately from the "here is critical information about something that might kill you".
Having them on the same category/priority before was massively irresponsible on the part of the police. I'm glad people with enough sense to understand alert fatigue eventually prevailed.
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#25Unfortunate that the title got cut off: "Six Amazon workers killed after tornadoes reduce warehouse near St. Louis to rubble" But the bigger story here is that despite multiple warnings of dangerous weather, the workers at this warehouse still ended up having to choose between risking their life or being fired/written up for refusing to come in. They didn't feel like they had the power to say "No, I won't work becaus…
I'm not sure that really is the story. Homes are not exactly safer, and there was a tornado warning for all of Madison county. Perhaps you've seen photos of what these things do to small wooden structures. Yes, their home was probably ok from this particular tornado, but I think that has more to do with luck than safety.
Re: Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
#26Unfortunate that the title got cut off: "Six Amazon workers killed after tornadoes reduce warehouse near St. Louis to rubble" But the bigger story here is that despite multiple warnings of dangerous weather, the workers at this warehouse still ended up having to choose between risking their life or being fired/written up for refusing to come in. They didn't feel like they had the power to say "No, I won't work becaus…
The article doesn’t say that. Where’s an article that says they had to come in despite the dangerous storms?
Given the long history of labour abuse that's occurred on Amazon's watch at their warehouses and for their delivery drivers, at this point do they deserve the benefit of the doubt? Do you think these people came in to work at the warehouse while the weather reports blared tornado warnings out of love for their job and loyalty to Bezos?
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#27Unfortunate that the title got cut off: "Six Amazon workers killed after tornadoes reduce warehouse near St. Louis to rubble" But the bigger story here is that despite multiple warnings of dangerous weather, the workers at this warehouse still ended up having to choose between risking their life or being fired/written up for refusing to come in. They didn't feel like they had the power to say "No, I won't work becaus…
Can you post some citation for these allegations? Maybe this is being widely reported and I've just missed it, but I'm not aware of positive evidence for the allegations you've made.
Not specific to this situation, but workers were pissed when Amazon expected them to come in during Hurricane Ida, resulting in 14 deaths, so it's not out of the realm of possibility here.
https://gizmodo.com/new-york-amazon-employees-had-to-work-du...
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#28Are Amazon workers somehow special that they get upvoted on HN. What a bizarre, bizarre society we're living in.
It’s got to do with “tech” apparently.
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#29*"reduce to rubble" or "destroys" How tragic, I feel awful for their families and so close to the holidays. :(
It looks like the title just got truncated by the HN mangler; the original has "to rubble" (as genocidicbunny points out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29525689).
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#30Are Amazon workers somehow special that they get upvoted on HN. What a bizarre, bizarre society we're living in.
There are five sure paths to the HN front page:
1. Material about Big Tech being evil.
2. Material about how to get hired in Big Tech.
3. "_______ written in Rust".
4. Cities good, cars bad, Elon's good.
5. Typography.